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Listening to Morton Feldman's "For Philip Guston"

22.3.2019

The S.E.M. Ensemble will perform Morton Feldman's "For Philip Guston" (1984) at The Willow Place Auditorium on March 22nd from 5pm-10pm. more

Petr Kotik will conduct The Art Ensemble of Chicago at Big Ears Festival

21.3.2019

Petr Kotik will conduct The Art Ensemble of Chicago Music by Roscoe Mitchell March 24, 2019 Big Ears Festival Knoxville, Tennessee - more information - Roscoe Mitchell Recent comp... more

Ostrava Days in August 2019 for the Tenth Time!

26.2.2019

18-hour music marathon, Czech and world premieres, Feldman's opera and music for Harley Davidson Ostrava, February 11, 2019 – New compositions written commissioned by the Festival, participation of composers of the young generation as well as ... more

S.E.M. Ensemble: Emerging Composers Workshop Concert

10.2.2019

Let us invite you to the concert of the S.E.M. Ensemble, which will be the culmination of the annual Emerging Composers Workshop. This workshop's purpose is to present new pieces for small ensemble that have never been performed. Also, it often featu... more

S.E.M. Ensemble is looking back and onward

18.12.2018

December 19, 2018 | 8:00 pm | Paula Cooper Gallery | New York Looking Back and Onwards SEM in 1986 & 2018 Ben Neill: Horizonal (2018) Petr Kotik: Wilsie Bridge (1986) Ben Neill: Money Talk (1986) Michael Schumacher: Variatio... more

Musical Theatre prize awarded to Alois Hába

3.12.2018

The Theatre Newspaper Award in the Musical Theatre category was awarded to Jiří Nekvasil for directing and Bruno Ferrandis for conducting Alois Hába more

Opera? Opera!!!

9.10.2018

OSTRAVA IN PRAGUE Opera? Opera!!! Divadlo Komedie (Prague) Friday | November 2nd | 19:30 TICKETS >>> Ostrava Center for New Music in cooperation with the National Moravian-Silesian Theater presents a unique eve... more

Ostrava Days Institute accepts applications!

1.10.2018

Ostrava Days accepts applications for residency for its Institute! The Ostrava Days Institute is a working environment for composers, performers and musicologists, with a focus on compositions for orchestra. There are two resident orchestr... more

Notes on the premiere of Thy Kingdom Come

4.7.2018

Alois Hába the Visionary Notes on the premiere of Thy Kingdom Come Vlasta Reittererová Czech Music Quarterly We bring this text on the occasion of the world premiere of Thy Kingdom Come, an opera by Czech composer Alois Hába (18... more

Documentary movie about Hába

23.6.2018

We would like to invite you for tommorow (Sunday, June 24) world premiere of the opera by Alois Hába Thy Kingdom Come and for the documentary movie by Czech television about Alois Hába. The documentary movie by Jiří Nekvasil will take place at 5pm at... more

NODO!!!, an exceptional opera festival, starts in Ostrava on Sunday

21.6.2018

Ostrava is the only Czech city to host a regular opera festival focused on Czech and world premieres. The time: June 24–28, 2018. The venues: traditional theater houses, but also Hlubina Colliery. The artists: chamber ensembles as well as a productio... more

NODO listing in Operawire.com

20.6.2018

New Opera Days Ostrava Festival’s 2018 Festival To Feature Major World Premiere of Alois Hába Opera http://operawire.com/new-opera-days-ostrava-festivals-2018-festival-to-feature-major-world-premiere-of-alois-haba-opera/ ... more

Many Many Women among ten canonical works of Czech music of the last century

5.6.2018

Many Many Women (1975-78) by Petr Kotík was selected as one of ten canonical works of Czech music composed in the last 100 years! more

The world premiere of Alois Hába’s opera is drawing closer

17.5.2018

Press release – May 11, 2018 We’ll play it properly: off-key! The world premiere of Alois Hába’s opera is drawing closer Preparations are in full swing for the most highly anticipated performance of this year’s NODO, the world prem... more

Operawire qbout Master-Pieces by Petr Kotík

6.5.2018

Throughout his career, Petr Kotik has explored musical boundaries as a performer and composer. He studied flute at the Conservatory and Music Academy in Prague, and composition at the Music Academy in Vienna. In the 1970’s, Kotik performed experime... more

New Yorker and I Care If You Listen about Master-Pieces

24.4.2018

New Yorker listing: https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/classical-music/s-e-m-ensemble-2 I Care If You Listen: https://www.icareifyoulisten.com/2018/04/week-concerts-new-york-april-23-2018-april-29-2018/ ... more

Master-Pieces by Petr Kotík on April 28 at Bohemian National Hall

22.4.2018

Petr Kotik chamber opera, Master-Pieces (2014-2015) will receive its first staged performance in the U.S. at Bohemian National Hall (NYC) on Saturday, April 28, 2018 (8:30 pm). The 70-minute work was commissioned by the new opera festival NODO (Czech... more