FESTIVAL
OSTRAVA DAYS 2011
August 28 - September 3, 2011
Ostrava Days Festival unfolds during the last week of the Institute and
includes 15 concerts, seven of which are with Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra
and Ostravská banda. The programming of the festival is independent of
mainstream festival programs and has included major works by Christian
Wolff, Alvin Lucier, Petr Kotik, Martin Smolka, Phill Niblock, Elliott Sharp,
Bernhard Lang, Rebecca Sauders, Kaija Saariaho, among others. Classics of new
music are also often presented. They include works by Morton Feldman, John
Cage, Earle Brown, Luigi Nono, Iannis Xenakis, Karlheinz Stockhausen, György
Ligeti, Edgard Varèse or Galina Ustwolskaja, among others. The program of the
festival also includes substantial number of works by resident-students of the
Ostrava Days Institute.
Festival program will be announced in May 2011.
Concert with Janáček Philharmonic on September 3, 2010
Lead by Petr Kotík, the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra will perform a special concert on September 3, 2010 at 7pm in Philharmonic Hall (Dům kultury města Ostravy).
