25 years of the BERG Orchestra: 25 two-minute works by Czech composers

8 December 2025, 7:30 pm,  DOX+, Prague 25×2 | … 25 years – 25 composers – anniversary celebration 25 musical greetings – 25 two-minute works by Czech composers … our unique birthday project (world premiere) Participating composers: Hanuš Bartoň / Slavomír Hořínka, Haštal Hapka, Matouš Hejl, Patrik Herman, Petr Hora, František Chaloupka, Štěpán Janoušek, Marek Keprt, … Read more

Ostravská banda only: premieres of pieces by Jakub Rataj and Marie Nečasová

26 August 2025, 7 pm, Triple Hall Karolina, Ostrava Ostrava Days: Ostravská banda only Jakub Rataj: Countermass, concerto for bass clarinet and ensemble (world premiere) Marie Nečasová: Thaw (world premiere) Martin Adámek – clarinet, Ostravská banda, cond. Johannes Kalitzke / Lilianna Krych / Bruno Ferrandis

Jakub Rataj: String Quartet no. 2 “Kratzer” (world premiere)

22 April 2025, 6:30 pm, Theatre De L’ile Saint-Louis, Paris, France NEOS Festival Jakub Rataj: String Quartet no. 2 “Kratzer” (world premiere) NeoQuartet (Karolina Piątkowska-Nowicka – 1. violin, Paweł Kapica – 2. violin, Michał Markiewicz – viola, Krzysztof Pawłowski – violoncello)

Fama Quartet: premieres of pieces by Jakub Rataj and Jan Krejčík

22 April 2024, 8pm, Czech Centre Paris Intersections of Contemporary Music Jakub Rataj: STRIA for solo violoncello (world premiere) Jan Krejčík: Emaux coulés de Jitka Válová for string quartet (world premiere) FAMA Quartet (David Danel, Roman Hranička – violin, Ondřej Martinovský – viola, Balázs Adorján – violoncello)

Prague Spring: new pieces by Jakub Rataj, Lucie Vítková and Ian Mikyska

28 May 2022, 8pm, DOX+, Prague Prague Spring: Prague Offspring Jakub Rataj: Fade no more (world premiere commissioned by the Prague Spring) Lucie Vítková: A Dream of Others (world premiere commissioned by the Prague Spring) Ian Mikyska: Dissolving; Settling (world premiere commissioned by the Prague Spring) Klangforum Wien, cond. Bas Wiegers, Vera Fischer – flute, … Read more

Five world premieres inspired by Jan Novák’s Latin poetry

8 October 2021, 7pm, Besední dům, Brno Moravian Autumn Weekend Marathon – Joannis Novak 100 Ludicra. Five world premieres inspired by Jan Novák’s Latin poetry Jakub Rataj: Farbella (world premiere) Lenka Nota: Cantilena aeaea (world premiere) Barry Wan: Anna (world premiere) David Carpenter: Somnium (world premiere) Jana Vöröšová: Oratio philippica (world premiere) Štěpán Filípek – violoncello, … Read more

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

Jakub Rataj: Music for Sirens

7 October 2020, 11:55, live stream from Duncan Centre on Czech Radio’s Facebook  and on https://www.mujrozhlas.cz/zive/vltava Music for Sirens… micro-concerts with emergency siren test Attention! for 3 saxophonists, 3 magaphones and 2 performers Concept / music: Jakub Rataj

Jakub Rataj. Music for Sirens

1 April 2020, Czech Radio Vltava – online broadcast Music for Sirens… micro-concerts with emergency siren test Attention (world premiere) Concept / music: Jakub Rataj Roman Fojtíček, Michael Jermář, Pavel Zlámal – saxophones, Shahab Tolouie