Concerts

20×3. Twenty miniatures for the BERG Orchestra’s twentieth birthday

20×3 Twenty life stories in miniatures by twenty composers – a project for the BERG Orchestra’s 20th birthday Available on YouTube and Czech Radio Vltava František Chaloupka: Reflexio (2020) Marek Keprt: vodnoSvětí (2019) Jan Ryant Dřízal: Marche nuptiale (2018) Jan Trojan: Just a Little Note to the Year (2017) Martin Klusák: In B (2016) Tomáš Pálka: Trans-Berg (2015) … Read more

Ondřej Adámek: Where are you? (world premiere)

6 March 2021, 6pm, live stream from Gesteig, Munich https://www.br-klassik.de/concert/ausstrahlung-2411214.html Ondřej Adámek: Where are you? for Mezzo-soprano and Orchestra (world premiere commissioned by musica viva and the London Symphony Orchestra) Magdalena Kožená – mezzo soprano, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, cond. Sir Simon Rattle

Lukáš Sommer: Funky Concerto (world premiere)

25 February 2021, 7pm, online from the Slovak State Philharmonic Košice, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMdadcTGXQ0 Lukáš Sommer: Funky Concerto for bassoon and chamber orchestra (world premiere) Jan Hudeček – bassoon, Slovak State Philharmonic Košice, cond. Zbyněk Müller

Marek Keprt: Music for Sirens

3 february 2021, 11:55am LIVE video stream from St. Vojtěch church, Prague, on Czech Radio Vltava’s FB, 11:57am live broadcast Czech Radio Vltava Music for Sirens… micro-concerts with emergency siren test Plavě proChvěla stínem ouška world premiere) Concept / music: Marek Keprt Pavla Radostová – soprano, Anna Romanovská Fliegerová – violin, Helena Velická – violoncello

Jiří Bezděk: Exposé for two accordions (world premiere)

1 February 2021, online from the J. S. Bach’s Music School’s concert hall, Dobřany, available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAwkSouYBmI New Music² Jiří Bezděk: Exposé for two accordions (world premiere) Ladislav Horák, Josef Hřebík – accordion

Pavel Trojan: Duo Concertante (world premiere)

7 January 2021, online stream from the Concert Hall of the Prague Conservatory, available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU2Kdv2nmgg&feature=emb_logo New Music² Pavel Trojan: Duo Concertante (world premiere) Ladislav Horák, Josef Hřebík – accordion

Days of Contemporary Music 2020 on Youtube

The Days of Contemporary Music festival whose 31rd year planned for November 2020 had to be cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic, made recordings of a part of the original programme and shared them on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_CSoaQmsosVrvNzOjA4FO2Cw0R8EFgH3 . The recorded pieces include several premieres:   Jan BERAN: Als welkten in den Himmeln ferne Gärten inspired by … Read more

Concertino Praga 2021

Concertino Praga – the Antonín Dvořák International Radio Competition for Young Musicians The Concertino Praga international radio competition for young musicians was established in 1966 at the initiative of Czech Radio and a number of personalities, such as Zuzana Růžičková, Viktor Kalabis and Helena Karásková. Due to the ongoing restrictions pertaining to solo instrument lessons and the complications … Read more

Jana Vöröšová: Music for Sirens

6 January 2021, 11:55am, LIVE video stream from Czech Radio Karlín onCzech Radio Vltava’s FB, 11:57am live broadcast Czech Radio Vltava Music for Sirens… micro-concerts with emergency siren test Three Sirens (world premiere) Concept / music: Jana Vöröšová Magdalena Šmídová Turchichová, Daniela Smutná, Jana Vöröšová – voice