Ondřej Adámek: Schreibt bald! (world premiere)

28 October 2018, Philharmonie Essen. Essen, Germany NOW!-Festival Ondřej Adámek: Schreibt bald! Performance piece for 21 voices, amplified objects and video projection on texts from Adámek family’s letters from Theresienstadt and Birkenau 1943-1945 (world premiere) Directed by: Eric Oberdorff, music director: Ondřej Adámek ChorWerk Ruhr

Ondřej Adámek: Seven Stones (world premiere)

7 July 2018, Théâtre du Jeu de Paume, Aix-en-Provence, France Festival international d’art lyrique d’Aix-en-Provence Ondřej Adámek: Seven Stones (world premiere commissioned by the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence) Libretto: Sjón Directed by: Éric Oberdorff, music direction: Ondřej Adámek, Léo Warynski Cast: Anne-Emmanuelle Davy, Shigeko Hata, Nicolas Simeha, Landy Andriamboavonjy Chorus: accentus / axe 21 Language: English Following performances: 8, 10, 12, 15 and 17 Jul 2018

Ondřej Adámek: Alles klappt (world premiere)

6 June 2018, Residenz Theater, Munich, Germany Munich Biennale Ondřej Adámek: Alles klappt (world premiere commissioned by the festival) Direction and libretto: Katharina Schmitt, music director: Ondřej Adámek Cast: Kathrin Zukowski, Thérese Wincent, Landy Andriamboavonjy (soprano), Steve Zheng (tenor), Dominic Kraemer (bass), Tobias Müller-Kopp (baritone), Jeanne Larrouturrou, Miguel Ángel Garcia Martin (percussion) Language: German Further performances: 7, … Read more

Ondřej Adámek: Alles klappt (world premiere)

6 June 2018, Residenz Theater, Munich, Germany Munich Biennale Ondřej Adámek: Alles klappt (world premiere commissioned by the festival) Direction and libretto: Katharina Schmitt, music director: Ondřej Adámek Cast: Kathrin Zukowski, Thérese Wincent, Landy Andriamboavonjy (soprano), Steve Zheng (tenor), Dominic Kraemer (bass), Tobias Müller-Kopp (baritone), Jeanne Larrouturrou, Miguel Ángel Garcia Martin (percussion) Language: German Further performances: 7, … Read more

Ondřej Adámek: Karakuri (Czech premiere)

31 May 2018, Studio Hrdinů, Fair Trade Palace, Prague Prague Spring Ondřej Adámek: Karakuri (Czech premiere) Shigeko Hata – soprano, Prague Modern, cond. Baldur Brönnimann

Ondřej Adámek: Karakuri (Czech premiere)

31 May 2018, Studio Hrdinů, Fair Trade Palace, Prague Prague Spring Ondřej Adámek: Karakuri (Czech premiere) Shigeko Hata – soprano, Prague Modern, cond. Baldur Brönnimann

Ondřej Adámek’s Airmachine in the Czech Republic for the first time

The 9th year of MusicOlomouc festival culminated on October 15 in the Atrium of Palacký University’s Art centre with a composer portrait of Ondřej Adámek. On the occasion, Adámek presented for the very first time his self-made musical instrument Airmachine, which has been enjoying success abroad, to Czech audiences. Airmachine 2 (thus already a second one he constructed) … Read more

Ondřej Adámek: Share the Space (world premiere)

Next commission for the internationally acclaimed Ondřej Adámek came from BCMG, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. They invited him to join their Canal Serenade on Narrow Boats project, a celebration of Birmingham canals and their busy trade history. On September 10 then, what was being exchanged on those boats were not goods but musical ideas… Three composers … Read more

Tomáš Reindl. Yoga (world premiere)

Held on September 4 in the Domovina hall in Holešovice, Prague, the first autumn concert by BERG orchestra was named “Surya Namaskar”, which means Sun Salutation. That was because the evening’s dominant theme was yoga, specifically as presented by composer and multi-instrumentalist Tomáš Reindl (*1971) in his premiere piece Yoga for Guru, Orchestra and Yogis. Commissioned by the … Read more

Concert of music by Ondřej Adámek at the Carinthischer Sommer festivaů

Held regularly from as early as 1969, the Carinthischer Sommer festival in Villach, the metropolis of the federal state of Carinthia, is one of the best known and most popular festivals in Austria. This year among those representing the contemporary music scene was the composer Ondřej Adámek (*1979), one of the festival’s Artists in Residence for 2016. … Read more