Professor Dolezal's concert career has taken him to most major cities in the United States as well as several musical centers abroad. From 1991 to 1995 he toured North America with the Artaria Quartet of Boston, named one of the world's ten best young string quartets at the 1992 Banff International String Quartet Competition. His solo and chamber music performances have been broadcast on CBC radio and television in Canada, the ABC Nightly News with Peter Jennings, TV Cultura in Brazil, Minnesota Public Radio, WFMT in Chicago, and WGBH in Boston. His performances can be heard on Centaur, Albany, CRI and Capstone Records. Professor Dolezal is interested in contemporary music and has premiered more than one hundred works, including several commissions and dedications. He co-founded the Warebrook Contemporary Music Festival in Vermont and served as its artistic director for two years. As a teacher, he has presented master classes in many universities and conservatories in the U.S. and abroad. He has received several awards and grants, including a Rural Residency Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Professor Dolezal attended the University of Kansas, where he earned his bachelor's degree in cello performance with highest distinction and received the coveted Presser Award. He studied cello and chamber music at the Aspen and Roundtop Music Festivals and earned a master's degree from the Peabody Conservatory. Professor Dolezal's principal teachers have been Raymond Stuhl, Edward Laut, and Yehuda Hanani. His chamber music coaches and mentors include members of the Juilliard, Guarneri, and American string quartets, and such notable musicians as Leon Fleisher, Eugene Lehner, Menachem Pressler, and Leonard Shure.

Professor Dolezal came to the University of Missouri from Viterbo College. He has been a visiting Artist/Lecturer at Boston College, Boston University, Florida State University, Georgia State University, the University of Kansas, and the Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory. At MU, Professor Dolezal is cellist in the Esterhazy Quartet, ensemble-in-residence at the University, teaches cello and a low strings techniques class, and coaches string chamber ensembles. He is also the founder and director of the MU Cello Choir.