Josef Kluson
was born in Vysoke Myto. He took up the viola studies at the Music Academy of this town. He continued it at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts, in the class of Josef Kusek, a member of the Vlach Quartet. During his studies, he received numerous prizes, both in the viola section and in the chamber music section.

Together with Josef Prazak and Vaclav Remes, he founded the Prazak Quartet in 1972, which was to become one of the most famous quartets in the world.

At the same time, he continued his career as a soloist, and kept giving master classes, most recently in Germany at the Schleswig Holstein Music Festival, in France at the Festival Pablo Casals, or still in Vienna at the International Summer Academy.

Together with the Prazak Quartet he has recorded over 40 CDs; he can often be heard as a soloist on the radio as well as on numerous Harmonia Mundi CDs. (On this label he has recorded the complete sonatas for viola and piano by Max Reger, B. Martinu and J. Brahms).