PETR KOTÍK: Concert – Recordings – Discussion

On Friday 10th of January 2020, 7. 30 will be our guest a composer, flutist Petr Kotík. He will introduce his new recordings from the last SEM Ensemble concert. He will also perform Cheap Imitation from John Cage. Petr Kotík: Tuba mirum (2019) for solo tube and pecussion Petr Kotík: Torso – String quartet No. 2 (2012-13) (live recordings … Read more

Cross–Country Skiing in Hudební 3

The last guests before Christmas (9/12) in our small place Hudební 3 will be „Cross–Country Skiing“ duo from Slovakia: Daniel Matej (gramophone, objects, live electronics) and Branislav Dugovič (clarinet, basclarinet, live electronics). As a special guest: Eddie Stevens (keys, vocal, live electronics). We start at 7.30 pm. Free entrance. More about the program here.

15th Competition of Composing Contemporary Sacred Music

15th Competition of Composing Contemporary Sacred Music To promote contemporary sacred music, every two years the “Festival European Sacred Music Schwaebisch Gmuend“ (Germany) organizes a competition of composing alternating with ordering a composition by a chosen composer. For the year 2020 the festival organizes a competition of composing and provides a prize of 2,000 EUR. https://www.kirchenmusik-festival.de/wettbewerbe.html

12th International Music Competition Giovani Musicisti

12th International Music Competition “Giovani Musicisti – Città di Treviso” This competitions is held by the Music Academy “Studio Musica” of Treviso in association with the town of Treviso, the Veneto region and the province of Treviso. Info: http://www.studiomusicatreviso.it/Concorso_2020/concorso_EN.php http://www.studiomusicatreviso.it/Concorso_Piano_2020/piano_EN.php

New double CD was released by CMIC

Double CD with a self-explanatory title: „A selection of fine instrumental pieces by a number of Czech composers active at the beginning of the 21st century“ was released in October by Czech Music Information Center. This anthology of eleven Czech composers presents one piece each by composers not represented in the portrait series: Ondřej Adámek, Petr Bakla, … Read more

Double CD of the Czech composers active at the beginning of the 21st century

Double CD with a self-explanatory title: „A selection of fine instrumental pieces by a number of Czech composers active at the beginning of the 21st century“. This anthology of eleven Czech composers presents one piece each by composers not represented in the portrait series: Ondřej Adámek, Petr Bakla, František Chaloupka, Peter Graham, Marek Keprt, Luboš Mrkvička, Martin … Read more

Slavomír Hořínka

Portrait of the composer Slavomír Hořínka. CD / Digital download / Free streaming (*1980) A composer who works and lives in Prague with his wife and four children. His music is focused primarily on a reduction of means and transparency of structure. He often uses melodic lines, harmonies, or rhythms derived from sound analysis or music … Read more

Vít Zouhar

Portrait of the composer Vít Zouhar. CD / Digital download / Free streaming (*1966)   A Czech composer and musicologist who lectures at the PalackýUniversity in Olomouc. He studied composition at JAMU and the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst Graz and musicology at the Masaryk University.He has composed six operas and over sixty instrumental … Read more