Current Owner

Roger Kirk

Dr Hladky travelled and played many concerts including in Billings, Montana where the current owner, Roger Kirk, was thrilled to hear his soaring performance of the Haydn D Major cello concerto. At that time, Dr. Hladky was kind enough to give him a lesson that helped him win a young artist competition.  From time to time after that, Roger would see and hear Dr. Hladky at the summer Red Lodge Music Festival where he was a treasured faculty member. Dr Hladky’s connections to Montana were very much tied to a close childhood friend and highly respected fellow musician and educator, Creech Reynolds, who started as a violin student with Hladky’s father in Oklahoma and eventually became head of the music department at MSU, Bozeman. It is through this connection of Dr Hladky to his friend Creech and admiration for his cellist son Mike, that Roger came to own the Tecchler.