Jan Doležel (*1984 in Pilsen) is appreciated by audiences and critics alike for his mastery of the instrument, his art of registration and his distinctive playing. With his ability to create musical tension and his sense of drama, he has repeatedly thrilled audiences in several European countries.

In his intensive concert activity, Jan Dolezel attaches great importance to performances of expressive and little-played compositions, which he likes to perform on suitable historical instruments.

Other hallmarks of his concerts are effectively composed programs and performances of entire cyclical works.

His recent successes include, for example, his Reger concert at the Rheingau Music Festival, which was described by the press as "the highlight of the Rheingau Music Festival."

In 2016, his concerts featured all of Max Reger's major organ works and the complete organ works of the forgotten German composer Heinrich Kaminski.

Jan Dolezel is the artistic director of the festival "Orgelherbst Obereisenheim". He has performed Johann Sebastian Bach's "Well-Tempered Clavier I" and "Tabulatur Buch Darinnen daß Vatter unser," a major work by Johann Ulrich Steigleder, on the Brandenstein organ from 1721 here.

In 2015 Jan Dolezel had a staged performance of the cycle "Apparatus musico-organisticus" by Georg Muffat on the program at the "Orgelherbst Obereisenheim", for which he wrote the script and took over the direction and the organ part.

The program of Jan Dolezel's concerts often includes music of the 20th century. Particularly exciting was the performance of the piece "Fantasia for organ with obbligati" by Mauricio Kagel for organ and two tapes on the historic Amalien organ from 1755 in Berlin.

In the Lorenzkirche Nuremberg and on the historical Walcker organ from 1869 in Waldkirch Jan Dolezel has interpreted the Variations on a Recitative by Arnold Schönberg.

In addition, Jan Dolezel's concern is to make Czech organ music known to a wide public:

His performances of the largest work of Czech organ symphonic music - the St.Wenceslas Triptych by Vitezslav Novak - have been enthusiastically received by audiences and the press (e.g. Organ Festival Ruhr, Constance Cathedral, Hamburg-Hauptkirche St.Petri, Erfurt Cathedral, ...).

In addition, he plays the works of Czech masters almost unknown in Germany, such as Antonin Dvorak, Leos Janacek, Bohuslav Martinu, Josef Klicka, Vitezslav Novak, Osvald Chlubna, Miloslav Kabelac or Marek Kopelent.

Jan Dolezel studied in Pilsen (Adam Viktora), Prague (Jaroslav Tůma), Lübeck (Franz Danksagmüller, Hans-Jürgen Schnoor) and Würzburg (Christoph Bossert). He is a prize winner of several competitions (including ION Nuremberg 2013) and was a scholarship holder of the Evangelisches Studienwerk.

Since 2012, he has taught organ at the University of Music in Würzburg. Since 2018, he has been active at Erlangen University Music, where he focuses on conducting the symphonic University Orchestra Erlangen.