4 December 2023, 8pm, Venuše ve Švehlovce, Prague Music in Contexts: Coccinelle’s Premieres Martin Klusák: Hide-and-Seek (world premiere) Jan Rybář: 6 Stories for 5 female voices and 2 instruments (world premiere) Petra Šuško: The Music of the Exemplary Household (world premiere) Ensemble Coccinelle, Jaroslav Škuta – clarinet, Štěpán Drtina – violoncello
2 November 2022, 8pm, Art Centre of Palacký University Olomouc – Atrium, Olomouc MusicOlomouc Jan Jirucha: Vibration of absence (world premiere) Haštal Hapka: On the Day of Black Melon (world premiere) Jáchym Novotný: Live, Live! (world premiere) Martin Klusák: Äiu, äiu (world premiere) Jonáš Jan Starý: In the Realm of Hungry Spirits – five introspections … Read more
13 September 2021, 7:30pm, Savarin – former riding school, Prague CHIMERA | … Japanese traditions and inspirations Anna Vtípilová: Whale Song (world premiere) Marek Kimei Matvija – shakuhachi, Annabelle Plum – voice, Žaneta Vítová – accordion Martin Klusák: Kwaidan. New composition with staged elements based on Japanese ghost stories themes (world premiere) Directed by: … Read more
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
5 June 2019, 11:50 am, Johannes Kepler Grammar School, Prague Music for Sirens … micro-concerts with emergency siren test Martin Klusák: Mycelium (world premiere) students of Johannes Kepler Grammar School – musical instruments, natural objects, improvised recitation
3 December 2018, Trade Fair Palace – Small vestibule, Prague Quo Vadis? Martin Klusák: Eclipse (world premiere) Jana Kubánková – violin, Ilia Chernoklinov – viola, BERG Orchestra, cond. Peter Vrábel
It has become a tradition for the Prague Orthodox music festival Archaion Kallos to provide space also for young contemporary composers. This (8th) year, it was Martin Klusák (*1987) and Jan Trojan (*1982). Their pieces, Pnoi for solo clarinet and video projection (Klusák) and Refractions – sound interventions (Trojan), were performed on October 22 at the Gallery of … Read more
Three concerts of Czech 20th and 21st century music took place during the second and third week of the Days of Contemporary Music festival. All of them were held in the halls of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. The festival has since long been focusing on premiering new pieces and the concert on … Read more
Early Spring (Předjaří), audio-visual composition by Martin Klusák (*1987) received its world premiere at the recent concert of the Berg Orchestra which took place on 31st October at the St. Agnes Convent in Prague. It was with this piece that the author successfully finished his studies of composition at the Academy of Performing Arts in … Read more
