3 November 2023, 8pm, Venuše ve Švehlovce, Prague Why to eat bacon and eggs every day? Matouš Hejl: Concerto for Saxophone (world premiere) Patrik Herman: Grisaille (world premiere) Barbora Tomášková: Agni (world premiere) Michael Blažek: Roar (world premiere) Martin Debřička – saxophone, Ensemble Terrible (Filip Halečka – violoncello, Jana Krejčí – clarinet, Kateřina Vacková – … Read more
26 October 2023, 7pm, cellar, Husa na provázku theatre, Brno ConTRIOlogy: Concert of Premieres III Matouš Hejl: The Wind Rose in the Spring Mountains (world premiere) Ian Mikyska: Curling (world premiere) Vojtěch Dlask: Trois mélodies sur les textes de la Querelle de Brest de Jean Genet (world premiere) Tomáš Vtípil: Minulo (world premiere) Tomáš Vtípil – electronics, ConTRIOlogy (Jana … Read more
27 May 2023, 8pm, DOX+, Prague Prague Spring Prague Offspring: Klangforum Wien II. Matouš Hejl: Pendulation (world premiere commissioned by the Prague Spring) František Chaloupka: The Spectral Waltzer (world premiere commissioned by the Prague Spring) Michaela Pálka Plachká: Five Colours of Alpine Fog (world premiere commissioned by the Prague Spring) Pavel Šabacký: Ishan’t (world premiere … Read more
26 June 2022, 7pm, Antonín Dvořák Theatre, Ostrava NODO Matouš Hejl: Opera Ibsen / Ghosts (world premiere) Libretto: Lucie Trmíková Directed by: Jan Nebeský, music director: Bruno Ferrandis Cast: Lucie Trmíková (Helena Alvingová), Miloslav König (Osvald Alving), Igor Chmela (Pastor Manders), Petr Jeništa (Jakub Engstrand), Magdalena Malá (Regina Engstrandová), Jan Mikušek – cimbalom, Petr Tichý … 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
4 December 2019, 11:55, Jan Neruda Grammar School, Prague Music for Sirens… micro-concerts with emergency siren test Staircase and Brasses (world premiere) Concept / music: Matouš Hejl Štěpán Janoušek – trombone, Jiří Genrt – tube
7 November 2019, Dvořák Hall, Rudolfinum, Prague ‘Premiere evening’ Adrián Demoč: Neha, adagio for orchestra (world premiere) Jana Vöröšová: Orpingalik’s Songs for Soprano and Orchestra (world premiere) Matouš Hejl: Crossings (world premiere) Vanda Šípová – soprano, Czech Philharmonic, cond. Keith Lockhart
BERG Orchestra’s last concert so far took place on October 16, for the first time at Továrna, a former industrial building turned into an arts centre in Holešovice, Prague. A part of the programme was a world premiere of a new piece by composer Matouš Hejl (*1989). Kaleidoscope was written in 2015 as Hejl’s graduation piece, yet with plans of BERG … Read more
The fifth day of the Ostrava Days presented a concert of the festival’s residential orchestra Ostravská banda held at the Triple Hall Karolina. Led by four different conductors – Petr Kotík, Joseph Trafton, Bruno Ferrandis and Carl Bettendorf – the ensemble played a program consisting of nine compositions, none of which was more than 15 years old. One of them … Read more
