Michal Novenko (born 5 January 1962 in Prague) is a Czech organist, composer and pedagogue.

Biography:
He studied at the Prague Conservatory and later several fields at HAMU. It was the study of organ and improvisation with Prof. Jaroslav Vodrážka, study of composition, conducting and music theory. From 1983 to 1987 he attended the Jean Guillou organ master classes in Paris on the basis of a Swiss scholarship. In 1990 he also completed a summer internship at the Academy of Music in Siena, Italy. He further improved his conducting courses with Helmut Rilling.

Awards:
Prize for improvisation at a competition in Opava
Czech Music Fund Award

Pedagogical activities:
In 1986 he became a professor at the Prague Conservatory, and after a forced break he returned in 1990. He teaches organ improvisation and music theory there. He also taught at the School of Young Organists in Oundle in the UK and at courses at Salisbury Cathedral. In addition, he has been a guest professor at the University of Texas and has lectured in France, Spain, Poland, South Africa and Mexico.

Concert activities:
He has given concerts all over Europe, especially at the festival in Sion on the oldest organ in the world, in Arezzo and Rome in Italy, Warwick in the UK, Angermünde in Germany, Bamberg, Hamburg, Weingarten, the Balearic and Canary Islands. He played the most famous Silbermann organ in Saxon Dresden and Freiberg, and gives concerts in French cathedrals (Bourges, Orleans, Sens...). His first great overseas success came in 1996 during the first American tour in San Antonio, since then he has toured the USA many times (in Dallas, Texas, Miami, Florida, Philadelphia...). From non-European tours, he also performed in Jerusalem, South Africa, a tour of Mexico, where he performed on important historical organs, but also on the largest instrument in Latin America in the Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City, where he played for 10,000 listeners.

Organizing activities:
In 1994 he founded and led for 10 years the organ festival Organum hydraulicum, combining water tourism with concerts on the South Bohemian historical organ. Today, this original music festival no longer exists in its original form.
In 1997 he initiated the Orlicko-Kłodzko Organ Festival on the border of Eastern Bohemia and Poland, of which he is now the artistic director. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.