31 March 2021, 10pm, Czech Radio Vltava – Radioateliér Slavomír Hořínka: Splinters Under the Skin (Třísky pod kůží) – world premiere Barbora Kabátková – voice, Vojtěch Urban – violoncello, David Matásek – recitation, Slavomír Hořínka – violin, electronics
20 March 2021, online from the Cosmopolitan Bobycentrum hotel, Brno Please, do not disturb (a 7-part miniseries of live concerts) Josef Klíč: Plastic Meat (world premiere) Direction & script: Martin Svobodník Brno Contemporary Orchestra, cond. Pavel Šnajdr
12 March 2021, online from Congress Centre Zlín, Zlín Lukáš Sommer: The Sphinx (world premiere) Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra, cond., Tomáš Brauner
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
6 March 2021, 6pm, live stream from Gesteig, Munich https://www.br-klassik.de/concert/ausstrahlung-2411214.html Ondřej Adámek: Where are you? for Mezzo-soprano and Orchestra (world premiere commissioned by musica viva and the London Symphony Orchestra) Magdalena Kožená – mezzo soprano, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, cond. Sir Simon Rattle
25 February 2021, 7pm, online from the Slovak State Philharmonic Košice, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMdadcTGXQ0 Lukáš Sommer: Funky Concerto for bassoon and chamber orchestra (world premiere) Jan Hudeček – bassoon, Slovak State Philharmonic Košice, cond. Zbyněk Müller
3 february 2021, 11:55am LIVE video stream from St. Vojtěch church, Prague, on Czech Radio Vltava’s FB, 11:57am live broadcast Czech Radio Vltava Music for Sirens… micro-concerts with emergency siren test Plavě proChvěla stínem ouška world premiere) Concept / music: Marek Keprt Pavla Radostová – soprano, Anna Romanovská Fliegerová – violin, Helena Velická – violoncello
1 February 2021, online from the J. S. Bach’s Music School’s concert hall, Dobřany, available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAwkSouYBmI New Music² Jiří Bezděk: Exposé for two accordions (world premiere) Ladislav Horák, Josef Hřebík – accordion
7 January 2021, online stream from the Concert Hall of the Prague Conservatory, available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU2Kdv2nmgg&feature=emb_logo New Music² Pavel Trojan: Duo Concertante (world premiere) Ladislav Horák, Josef Hřebík – accordion
The Days of Contemporary Music festival whose 31rd year planned for November 2020 had to be cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic, made recordings of a part of the original programme and shared them on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_CSoaQmsosVrvNzOjA4FO2Cw0R8EFgH3 . The recorded pieces include several premieres: Jan BERAN: Als welkten in den Himmeln ferne Gärten inspired by … Read more
