FESTIVAL
OSTRAVA DAYS 2013
August 23 – 31, 2013
Ostrava Days Festival unfolds during the last week of the Institute and
includes circa 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 at the beginning of year 2013.
