Jiri Hlinka (Czech: Jiří Hlinka; race. 1944 Prague) — Norwegian music teacher and composer of Czech origin.[1]
He graduated from Prague Academy of Music, was a student of Frantisek Rauch and Joseph Palenichek. From 1966, he started giving concerts, one which got him an acclaim from Russian people when he played Pyotr Tchaikovsky's music in Moscow. The music got him into a final place and he won hearts and minds of the Russian people.[2] Unfortunatelly, three years later he was diagnosed with chronic infection of the joints, and was forced to limit his performing activity, and since then almost never played. He writes infrequently (although, for forty years, he re-wrote a number of recordings of chamber music which in the past were performed by Joseph Haydn, Franz Liszt Pyotr Tchaikovsky Leos Janacek Sergei Prokofiev, Erik Satie). However, in the 1970s, the main work of Glinka is started to be thought. From 1972, he lives and works in Norway, in 1982, he took Norwegian citizenship. All these years, Glinka teaches at the Academy of Music Grieg in Bergen, where among his students was, in particular, Leif Ove Andsnes.
In 2004, he was awarded the Royal Gold Medal of Merit - the eighth largest state award in Norway.[3] In 2007 he was awarded the «Gratias agit» Merit in the representation of Czech culture abroad.[4]