6 March 2019, 11:45 am, Large Auditorium, Faculty of Arts, Prague Music for sirens … microconcerts with emergency siren test Concept / music: Miroslav Pudlák (world premiere) Monika Čeřovská (French horn), Jiří Lukeš (accordion), Jiří Genrt (tube), Petr Studený (electronics)
14 December 2018, Divadlo Inspirace, Academy of Performing Arts, Prague Musica Nova 2018. Premieres of winning pieces of the 27. international competition Yuk Bun Wan: Seascape (winner of the Czech category) Petr Wajsar. Generative Ambient (honorable mention) Jiří Suchánek: Movements (honorable mention)
10 December 2018, Trade Fair Palace, Prague The Beauty of Today World premiere – site-specific performance – videomapping Music: Petr Wajsar, Jan Trojan, Tomáš Reindl Clarinet Factory (Jindřich Pavliš, Luděk Boura, Vojtěch Nýdl – clarinet), Petr Wajsar – vocals, Jan Trojan – live electronics, Tomáš Reindl – tabla, live electronics, beatbox, Miro Tóth – saxophone, PKF – Prague Philharmonia, cond. Marko … Read more
15 November 2018, Punctum – Krásovka, Prague STIMUL festival, Sanatorium Dźwięku Stimul Nights: Polish Musical Avant-garde of the 20th Century Petr Vrba: Psychedelic Reisebüro 1.0 (for Jano Doe) – world premiere Petr Vrba – trumpet, electronics
5 November 2018, DOX – Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague OLD/NEW Jiří Lukeš: Different Spaces (world premiere) BERG Orchestra, cond. Peter Vrábel
21 June 2018, Picture Gallery, Chateau, Kroměříž Forfest Pavel Kopecký: Ritorni for wind trio and electroacoustics (world premiere) Vojtěch Dlask: Krapp trio for wind trio and electroacoustics (world premiere) Trio Aperto (Barbora Šteflová – oboe, Jan Chafreitag – clarinet, Pavel Horák – bassoon)
On 7 April, the New Scene of the National Theatre in Prague presented the long-awaited premiere of the opera adaptation of Ivan Klíma’s mystery novel The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch. Its author, primarily a scenic music composer and musical autodidact Ivan Acher (*1976) had already written music for the book’s theatre adaptation at Divadlo Komedie eleven … Read more
Opera povera ensemble introduced a second part of their experimental project Echo – Metamorphoses, subtitled “All that connects sound and space can become an opera.” It was created by Rocc (*1979), Slovenian opera director and opera povera’s art director, and composer and musicologist Vít Zouhar (*1966). “Content-wise, we tried to return to the original inspiration of the very … Read more
As would be expected, the 10 days and 22 concerts of the 9th year of the contemporary music biennale Ostrava days included several Czech premieres. From those by Czech authors they were first of all the chamber Nothing is Free by Petr Cígler, September by Petr Bakla and The Long Sentence II by Michal Rataj. All of them were performed during … Read more
As already a couple of times in the past, this year of the Prague Spring festival, too, decided to hold one of its concerts at the National Technical Museum. In collaboration with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague, it presented a programme consisting of four pieces by contemporary composers, all of … Read more
