Lukáš Sommer: Harp Concerto (Czech premiere)
26 May 2018, Dvořák Hall, Rudolfinum, Prague Prague Spring Lukáš Sommer: Harp Concerto (Czech premiere) Jana Boušková – harp, PKF – Prague Philharmonia, cond. Zbyněk Müller
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Lukáš Sommer: Harp Concerto (Czech premiere)
26 May 2018, Dvořák Hall, Rudolfinum, Prague Prague Spring Lukáš Sommer: Harp Concerto (Czech premiere) Jana Boušková – harp, PKF – Prague Philharmonia, cond. Zbyněk Müller
Jiří Kadeřábek: Remote Heart II for traditional Chinese instruments orchestra (world premiere)
21 May 2018, Beijing Concert Hall, Beijing, China Beijing Modern Music Festival Jiří Kadeřábek: Remote Heart II for traditional Chinese instruments orchestra (world premiere) Suzhou Chinese Orchestra, cond. Pang Kapang
Jiří Kadeřábek: Remote Heart II for traditional Chinese instruments orchestra (world premiere)
21 May 2018, Beijing Concert Hall, Beijing, China Beijing Modern Music Festival Jiří Kadeřábek: Remote Heart II for traditional Chinese instruments orchestra (world premiere) Suzhou Chinese Orchestra, cond. Pang Kapang
Marko Ivanović: Little Words (premiere of an orchestral version)
19 May 2018, Smetana Hall, Municipal House, Prague Prague Spring Marko Ivanović: Little Words (world premiere of an orchestral version) Katarina Kornéus – mezzosoprano, Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, cond. Marko Ivanović
Michal Nejtek: Ultramarine (world premiere)
18 May 2018, Smetana Hall, Municipal House, Prague Prague Spring Michal Nejtek: Ultramarine (world premiere) Warsaw Philharmonic, cond. Jacek Kaspszyk You can learn more in our video interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt-F24-i-kQ&feature=youtu.be
Czech music as the main theme of this year’s Leamington Music Festival Weekend
4 – 7 May 2018, Royal Pump Rooms, The Parade, Leamington Spa, UK Leamington Music Festival Weekend Seven concerts of music by Antonín Rejcha, Bedřich Smetana, Antonín Dvořák, Leoš Janáček, Josef Suk, Bohuslav Martinů, Ervín Schulhoff, Klement Slavický and Luboš Fišer Ensemble 360, Pražák String Quartet, Guarneri Trio, Ivan Klánský, Jana Vonášková-Nováková, Martin Kasík, Nicholas Wearne
Miroslav Srnka at the DIALOGE festival, Salzburg
Miroslav Srnka, the most successful Czech composer today, was the main star of DIALOGE 2017, contemporary music festival held by the Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation. Forming the dramaturgical basis of the festival, his music was being performed several times over the 4 days – as the festival’s name suggests – in dialogues with other contemporary, classical, electronic or film … Read more
Meetings of New Music Plus: premieres of pieces by Jiří Lukeš, Kamil Doležal, Hanuš Bartoň and Miroslav Pudlák
One of the guests of the 20. international festival of contemporary music and multimedia projects Meetings of New Music Plus, held between October 11 and December 6 in Brno, was the Prague-based ensemble MoEns. Their concert took place on November 9 at the Chamber Hall of the Faculty of Music of Janáček Academy of Music and Performing … Read more
Jiří Kadeřábek’s ‘No Man’ in Bremen
Premiered this spring at the National Theatre in Prague, Jiří Kadeřábek’s opera No Man moved over to Bremen, Germany, native town of the production’s directress Katharina Schmitt. Here, it was performed twice, on November 7 and 8 as a special part of the festival of contemporary German literature Festival für grenzüberschreitende Literatur. No Man tells the tragic life story of … Read more