His compositions are very contemporary, if only for the fact that they oscillate between serious and popular music. They are neither in a purely classical or purely popular style. His compositions are very melodic and rhythmically interesting; Milan Tesař the composer literally scintillates with musical ideas. To put it simply, his music has gotten under my skin, in the good sense of the phrase. At the university where I teach in Germany, I recommend his music to my students, and they really enjoy playing it. Even there, his music is always a big success when it is performed, which gives me, as a patriot, a great deal of pleasure.

Jiří Jirmal Professor and composer

The first time I heard his pieces performed, I was surprised by a sort of simplicity about them. Even so, Milan Tesař manages to slip some kind of jazzy note here and there into that typically Czech harmonic transparency. I have actually learned a lot from his compositions because they are in a freer style, a more freely conceived music which is generally crowned with a catchy melody. Milan Tesař's music is performed in many countries around the world, and here in Paris he is well known. I have been playing his compositions, for example, in America and England since the time that his manuscripts started to be published. I program them into my concerts because I am looking for attractive repertoire. He is my professional colleague, and I hold only one thing against him: when he sends his music to me by mail, it stinks of cigarette smoke.

Vladimír Mikulka Guitarist

Milan has arranged many tunes for me, and in a range of genres stretching from ragtime to classical. He has greatly widened the repertoire of the "light genre" for us guitarists. Which nobody ever did, nor do they do it today. He understands the guitar perfectly both from the standpoint of harmony and the the standpoint of the musician, and this is, it seems, his greatest trump.

Lenka Filipová Singer and guitarist

I play the pieces of professor Milan Tesař? because I like them. I choose my repertoire according to whether or not a piece has some emotional content. The emotional content of his pieces is very strong. He is a Czech composer, even if you cannot, at first hearing, identify some characteristic Czech melodic treatment in his work. It is, however, clearly present in his compositions, and in my opinion, he is well aware of it. Not for nothing did he name one of his albums Czech Colors.

Jaroslava Ježková Guitarist