Dr Tony Prochazka shares how his musical training provides the focus, concentration and discipline required for his surgical career and why he thinks concerts are harder than surgery. Maintaining a busy musical life, he is a founding member and Principal Cellist of Corpus Medicorum and recently performed all 6 Bach Cello Suites one a single program at a solo show in Shanghai.
Tony Prochazka pursued a non-conformist training in both medicine and music. He interrupted his medical career to study Jazz Guitar at the VCA, having played Cello with the Australian Youth Orchestra during his schooling. He studied Classical Cello in Germany and London before building a successful career in cosmetic surgery.
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“By the end of it I was just sold on music and that was really my awakening I guess at just how fantastic it could be.”
“I just remember we had some conversations, my parents and I. I said I would like to be a musician, they said it’s a hard life there’s no guarantees.”
“The idea of the arc of a musical phrase is very similar to the idea of the construction of the face, or the balance of the face.”
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PODCAST TEAM
Production Penny Manwaring
Audio Engineering from Frazer Ruddick
Theme Music Composed by Danna Yun
Theme Music Composed by Natasha Pearson
Theme Music Performed by Alison McIntosh-Deszcz (soprano), Natasha Lin (piano), and Susan Eldridge (horn).
Theme Music Recorded Lady Marigold Southey Performance Studio, 3MBS Fine Music in Melbourne in October 2016. With thanks to recording engineer Cheryl Scott.
FIRST BROADCAST
06 December 2016