Concert activities of Ji?í Bárta, one of the foremost cellists of his generation, have taken him to most of European countries, North & South America, Australia, Japan and Korea as well as Africa and Middle East. He has appeared at festivals such as Edinburgh, Kuhmo, Lugano, Prague Spring Festival, Schubert Festival Salzburg, Schleswig Holstein Musik Festival. As a concerto soloist or in recital  he has performed in venues such as Birmingham Symphony Hall, Manchester Bridgewater Hall, Buenos Aires Teatro Colon, Carnegie Weill Recital Hall, Dublin Concert Hall, Edinburgh Queen Elisabeth Hall, L’Auditorio in Barcelona, Los Angeles Dorothy Chandler Pavilion,  London Wigmore Hall, Royce Hall at UCLA, Prague Rudolfinum, Tokyo Suntory and Casals Halls, Paris Theatre Chatelet, Salzburg Mozarteum, Soul Arts Center, Berlin Philharmonic Hall, Berlin Konzerthaus, Washington National Gallery with instrumentalists such as Vadim Repin,  Dmitri Sitkovetski, Josef Suk, Ilya Gringolts, Chloe Hanslip, Konstantin Lifschitz, Hamish Milne, Piers Lane, Martin Kasík,  with orchestras such as Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin Symphony, London Symphony Orchestra, Prague Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic London, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Scottish Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Glasgow, Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra and, finaly, with conductors such as Ji?í B?lohlávek, Charles Dutoit, Jakub Hr?ša, Gianandrea Noseda, Libor Pešek, Gennadi Rozhdestvenski and Maxim Shostakovich. 

As a recording artist on a Supraphon label Ji?í Bárta has released  Dvorak Celloconcerto with Czech Philharmonic/Ji?í B?lohlávek, live recording of performance commemorating Dvorak‘s 100 year’s anniversary  televised throughout Europe by Arte Channel. Both CDs with Kodaly Cello works and Martinu/Foerster/Novak concertos respectively have been awarded Gramophon Editor’s Choice .  His other Supraphon recordings include Bach Cello Suites and Shostakovich concertos,  two discs for  Hyperion of sonatas by Moscheles, Hummel and Rubinstein.  He has collaborated with mezzosoprano Magdalena Kozena on her Detsche Grammophon Lieder project awarded by Gramophone Award. Czech TV documentary featuring Ji?í „M?j pokus o mistrovsky pokus (Bárta versus Bach Cello Suites)“ won Prix CIRCOM of 2015 in Ireland.

Latest recordings include Bach Solo Suites (on period instrument) and all Beethoven Sonatas with his long time music and life partner Terezie Fialová for Animal Music.

As an enthusiastic chamber musician Jiri has co-founded Kutna Hora Chamber Music Festival, festival aimed at both worlds of contemporary and classical  music   which gained instant recogition as one of the top classical festivals in the Czech Republic.

Ji?í Bárta studied in Prague with Josef Chuchro, in Cologne with Boris Pergamenschikow and in Los Angeles with Eleonore Schoenfeld. After winning number of national competitions he has been awarded the Europäische Förderpreis für Musik in Dresden and the Rostropovich-Hammer Award in Los Angeles in 1991.

Ji?í Bárta currently plays cello built by Dietmar Rexhausen in 2012.