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

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

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

It is very difficult to characterize the music of Milan Tesař in it, you can hear blues, jazz, and folk songs, as well as the classical music which arches over the whole thing. I have never met with anything like it anywhere else. His compositions are made for live performing. Their Czechness intrigues me. Milan always says that when he is composing he bears in mind that it must be Czech music, and it must have a rhythmic foundation. And he truly succeeds in this. His music is very interesting, and I can say that I have had great success with it in my concerts.

Milan Zelenka Guitarist and professor