Czech composer and musicologist Aleš Březina was born in 1965. He studied violin at the Pilsen Conservatoire and musicology at universities in Prague, Basel and Berlin.

Aleš Březina has been the Director of the Bohuslav Martinů Institute in Prague since 1994. He is Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Bohuslav Martinů Complete Edition, he has prepared a host of compositions by this author for revised or urtext publications at Czech, German, English, Austrian and French publishing houses. He reconstructed the first version of the opera Greek Passion (premiered at the Bregenzer Festspiele in 1999 in co-production with the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Laurence Olivier Award 2000). In 2016 his critical edition of The Epic of Gilgamesh earned the Best Edition award from the Associacion of German Music Publishers. In 2020 the chairwoman of The Czech Science Foundation (GAČR) awarded Březina’s project of Bohuslav Martinů Complete Edition as one of the five best scientific projects of the year.

He has published in Czech and foreign magazines and miscellanies a number of specialist studies about 20th century music, primarily concerning the life and work of Bohuslav Martinů. He is the editor of the series Martinu Studies. He has lectured in Europe and USA and is a member of a number of Czech and foreign professional associations. For the fourth time, he has in 2014 cooperated with the Concentus Moraviae Festival and the international Czech Dreams project as the dramaturge.