Leoš Cepický graduated from the East-Bohemian Conservatoire in Pardubice in 1985 under Professor Ivan Straus. He started his promising career in his early teens, when he won the first prize and Laureate title at the Jaroslav Kocian International Violin Competition. Leoš was a founding member of the Wihan Quartet, formed in 1985 at the Prague Academy of Performing ARts. In 1988 the Quartet won the first prize at the prestigious Prague Spring competition and three years later they won the London International String Quartet Competition. Between the years of 1717 and 1723, Johann Sebastian Bach held the post of Kapellmeister at the court of Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Köthen. It was the only engagement in Bach's career that was not linked with church music obligations and this allowed him to devote himself predominantly to isntrumental music.