20 May 2022, 7:30pm, Martinů Hall, Prague Concert of works by the students of the composition department of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague Haštal Hapka: Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra Jan Dobiáš: Concerto in a Choral Overture Style Darja Kukal Moiseeva: Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra Michael Andrew Burt: “Subversion” on Archimedes Constant Jan … Read more
Led by their artistic director Pavel Šnajdr, the Brno Contemporary Orchestra on 31 January in Besední dům, Brno, presented the first of the two concerts commemorating and celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of Czechoslovakia. It was named FROM CZECHOSLOVAKIA and the programme consisted of new pieces by Petr Bakla, Luboš Mrkvička and Marián Lejava … Read more
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
