Ostrava Center for New Music

In a current issue od HIS VOICE magazine there is an article about Peter Ablinger's music, the author of the article - G. Douglas Barrett was a resident-student of Ostrava Days 2007 and 2009.

Petr Kotík was on January, 28 as a guest in a talkshow called Before Midnight...

Ostravská banda has a new profile with recordings on Bandzone. Go for listening...

On Thursday January 21, 2010 Ostravská banda started the concert season „Universo Ustwolskaja“, which is dedicated to Galina Ustwolskaja, a Russian Composer. Along with Ostravská banda and conductor Petr Kotík there performed also the soloists Daan Vandewaalle (Piano), Arne Defoce (Cello), Marta Marinová (Voice) and Conrad Harris (Violin).

Ostravská banda will perform pieces of Galina Ustwolskaja at musicadhoy2010 Festival in Madrid.

reviews about Ostrava Days in section Media / Press Reviews

You can check almost all photos from Ostrava Days 2009 - New Music Institute and Festival.

Media / Press Reviews

One of the best experiences at this year’s Ostrava Days festival was the closing concert, which was held on Saturday, 29 August, at Dům kultury in Ostrava. This was the last of the sixteen concerts at the 5th biennial this year, and it was the occasion of three major events: the world premiere of Rhapsody for 3 Orchestras, by the American composer Christian Wolff, who was in attendance; Concert fo ...

Lejaren Hiller: Sonata No. 3 for Violin and Piano
Peter Graham: A Nap
Samuel Sfirri: for Callum Innes
Michael Schumacher: Isorhythmic Variations
Phosphor Ensemble: In Real Time

Composing music, listening to music and performing music and are all different activities, which may not be necessarily connected in any way and have nothing to do with each other. This is a known statement John Cage made long time ago. The example of Phill Niblock is a testimony to the truthfulness of it.

Niblock is not a musician. He never learned how to read music notation and for the realiz ...

All the rehearsal rooms of the Janáček Philharmonic and the Janáček Conservatory are filled with musicians from all over the world from morning till evening. Apart from the local Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava (under conductors Roland Kluttig, Peter Rundel, Onřej Vrabec and the director Petr Kotík), the choir Canticum Ostrava (under Yurii Galatenko) also rehearses the premiere compositions for the p ...

Ostrava Days Institute just began. There are about 30 students from foreign universities. First discussions were done during Petr Kotík's presentation. Today Michael Schumacher (New York) and Philip Thomas (Hudersfield) arrive and will lead lessons.

Exhibition of Pavel Rudolf’s scores at Gallery Beseda is a part of Ostrava Days 2009. The exhibition will commence on August 24th at 5 p.m. and will hang through September 6th.

Galerie Beseda, Jurečkova 18, 702 00 Ostrava
Opening hours: Mon-Thu 9 a.m. – 7 p.m., Fri 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.
www.galeriebeseda.cz

There is another lector coming to Ostrava Days 2009 Institute.
Philip Thomas BMus (Hons) MMus PhD form University of Huddersfield will have the seminars on August 11th and 12th, 2009.

In weekly Magazine "Týden" issued June 1st 2009 there is the article about the Concert of Ostravská banda in Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York.

Saturday, August 22
16:00 – 24:00
Gallery of Fine Arts in Ostrava, Jurečkova 8

Ostrava Center for New Music published The Ostrava Days 2007 REPORT that documents Ostrava Days 2007 Institute and Festival. Contains detailed information about Ostrava Days 2007 including transcripts of selected seminars, discussions, comments and reviews and photographs.

Ostravská banda is going to perform on May 6, 2009 at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in New York. The concert will also feature The Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble and FLUX Quartet and will be part of “Ostrava Days in New York” event, organized by the Czech Center from 4th to 13th of May at the Bohemian National Hall, 321 East 73rd Street.

Ostrava Center for New Music in cooperation with the Czech Music Information Center issued a 2CD with recordings of previous biennials of Ostrava Days Festival. 2CD is published as an annex to magazine subscribers of His Voice Magazine 3/4.

Ostrava Center for New Music has already announced the Institute program for Ostrava Days 2009. It takes place from August 10-30, 2009 in Ostrava, Czech Republic.

Ostrava Center for New Music published documentary about Ostrava Days 2007.