Alena Veselá

Alena Veselá (married name Štěpánková; Her first piano teacher was Zdeňka Illnerová. She studied musicology at the Masaryk University in Brno.

From 1952, she worked for almost fifty years at the Academy Among her students were , , Petr Kolař, Zdeněk Nováček, and David Postránecký. She was responsible for expanding buildings of the JAMU and took care of its organ.

Veselá gave concerts in Czechoslovakia and abroad, She recorded organ music by Czech composers, both historic such as František Brixi and Jiří Ignác Linek and contemporary including Petr Eben. She played a significant role in completing the reconstruction of the Besední Dom, the seat of the Brno Philharmonic,