22 November 2021, 7:30pm, Kaiserstein palace, Prague Days of Contemporary Music Eduard Douša: Six Characteristic Pieces for Piano (world premiere) Eva Doušová – piano Karel Janovický: Sonata for Violin and Piano (world premiere) Jana Vonášková-Nováková – violin, Petr Novák – piano Jiří Smutný: Epigrams for Lower Voice and Piano on Poetry by A. S. Pushkin … Read more
9 October 2021, 9:30pm, Music Lab, Brno New World of Moravian Autumn Weekend Marathon – Joannis Novak 100 Novák². World premieres of pieces on a theme from Jan Novák’s X Horatii Carmina Daniel Šimek: Walk in the Ruins (world premiere) Mirror ensemble (Pavel Šabacký – clarinet, saxophone, Michal Cálik – trumpet, Martin Švec – xylosynth, Adéla Spurná … Read more
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
Piano Concerto by Miroslav Srnka got selected as one of the pieces presented at Prague Radio Symphony orchestra’s last pre-Christmas concert which was held on December 19 in Rudolfinum. As the internationally best-known Czech contemporary composer currently, Srnka was a perfect choice for the evening which bore the title “Czech Traces In The World” and whose program included … Read more
Ondřej Kyas’s (*1979) Chamber Symphony no. 2 for oboe, piano, percussion and strings received its world premiere on this year’s first concert of the Brno-based Ensemble Opera Diversa, which took place on 10th February at the Reduta theatre in Brno. A part of the ceremony was the presentation of the ensemble’s very first CD which consists of Jan Novák’s oboe … Read more
