Prof. PaedDr. Jiří Holubec, Ph.D. graduated at the Faculty of Education of the Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem and the Faculty of Music of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He is the choirmaster of the university choir Chorea academica and the Děčín choir. He has performed with these choirs in most European countries, the USA, Colombia and Mexico. As a conductor, he collaborated with the choirs of the Conservatory in Teplice, Freie Waldorfschule in Mannheim, the Bohemiachor Choir, and the choir of the State University of New York, which he conducted during his lecture and artistic internship in the USA. He also worked as a pianist, artistic director and arranger of the Big Band Bonit orchestra from Ústí nad Labem.
In pedagogical practice, prof. Holubec focuses mainly on current trends in Czech music pedagogy, about which he lectures at home and abroad; recently, for example, at the Conservatory of Music in Shanghai. He is significantly involved in the cooperation of the Department of Music Education of the Faculty of Education of the Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem with the Hochschule für Tanz und Musik in Munich and with the Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica.
He currently teaches at the Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem and at the University of Liberec, in the field of music theory he cooperates with the Department of Music Theory and the Institute of Music Theory of the Music Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.