Tomáš Ondrůšek was born in 1964. He graduated from the Conservatory in Nuremberg and the Music Academy in Stuttgart. He is a member of the Stuttgart Percussion Ensemble and the Prague New Music Orchestra 'Agon'. He held a grant from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes. He specializes in the performance of contemporary music. He has collaborated with such composers as Martin Smolka, Helmut Lachenmann, Peter Kofroň, Tibor Szemzö, M. Steinauer and Peter Kotik. He has prepared many Czech and Russian premieres of works by Lachenmann, Xenakis and Stockhausen. He has performed at such prestigious festivals as the 'Prague Spring', the International Percussion Days in Prague, the Donaueschinger Musiktage, 'Audio Art' in Cracow, 'Oggimusica' in Lugano, the Biennale in St. Petersburg, and Musica Ficta' in Vilnius.