Soňa Vetchá: Labyrinth (world premiere)
30 October 2021, 7:30pm, DOX Centre– DOX+ Multifunctional Hall, Prague Contempuls 11 Soňa Vetchá: Labyrinth (world premiere commissioned by Contempuls) Meitar Ensemble, cond. Yuval Zorn
Contempuls
Jakub Rataj: IOI, Interludium – Origin’s Ichor (world premiere)
1 December 2019, DOX+, Prague Contempuls Jakub Rataj: IOI, Interludium – Origin’s Ichor (world premiere) Trio Catch (Boglárka Pecze – clarinet, Eva Boesch – violoncello, Sun-Young Nam – piano)
Luboš Mrkvička: For Piano, Part K (world premiere)
24 November 2019, DOX+, Prague Contempuls Luboš Mrkvička: For Piano, Part K (world premiere) Satoko Inoue – piano
Martin Smolka: Vor dem Gesetz (Czech premiere)
24 November 2019, DOX+, Prague Contempuls Martin Smolka: Vor dem Gesetz for 7 speaking musicians with side instruments, based on a short story by Franz Kafka (Czech premiere) Libretto: Jiří Adámek ascolta
Šimon Voseček: Fists (world premiere)
18. listopadu 2018, DOX – Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague Contempuls Night Šimon Voseček: Fists (world premiere) Yarn/Wire (Ian Antonio, Russell Greenberg – percussion, Laura Barger, Ning Yu – piano)
Miroslav Srnka: Triggering (world premiere)
18 November 2018, DOX – Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague Contempuls Night Miroslav Srnka: Triggering (world premiere) Mahan Esfahani – harpsichord
Contempuls 2016: premieres of works by Jakub Rataj, Jan Ryant Dřízal and Jiří Kadeřábek
One of the goals the Contempuls festival has been working towards is to support Czech composers and to give them the opportunity to present themselves in an international context. At this year’s last two concerts, premiere was given to three pieces by Czech authors of the young generation – Jakub Rataj, Jan Ryant Dřízal and Jiří Kadeřábek. … Read more
Luboš Mrkvička: For piano – Part G, Part L (world premiere at the Contempuls festival)
Held on 15th November at La Fabrika, Prague, the second evening of the Contempuls festival was opened with a recital by British pianist and new music expert Ian Pace. For the first bit, he chose two pieces by Luboš Mrkvička (*1978). Mrkvička typically marks his pieces by letters only and always sees them as arbitrarily combinable … Read more
Jan Trojan: 3107 Miles of Proximity (world premiere at Contempuls festival)
The 8th year of the Prague contemporary music festival Contempuls started on Friday 11th November with an orchestral concert in La Fabrika, Holešovice. Besides Jo Kondo’s To the Headland, Bent Sørensen’s Piano Concerto No. 2 „La Mattina“ (with Jonathan Powell as a soloist in place of indisposed Jan Bartoš) and Symphony: Daar kom die Alibama by Kevin Volans, … Read more