Essential Ostrava – New York

Date ⏜ 21. 11. 2025
Time ⏜ 19:00
Venue ⏜ DOX+ (map)

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Performers ⏜

Andrej Gál, violoncello
Beatriz Gaudêncio Ramos, soprano
Prague Philharmonia
Petr Kotík, conductor
Jiří Rožeň, conductor

Program ⏜

Petr Bakla: Summer Work (2016)
"...a massive sound where all voices (instruments) have a specific weight, creating a static and multicolor effect."
(Gianluigi Mattieti, Amadeus Magazine, 2017)

Anna Heflin: Einmal ist keinmal (2025)
"Sparkling and arching with hidden corners."
(Shannon Reilly, houslistka, NYC)

Richard Ayres: No. 30 (NONcerto for orchestra, cello, and high soprano, 2001)
"...music band on drugs."
(Roland Kluttig, dirigent, 2001)

Petr Kotík: Fragment (1998)
"...massive and modestly named Fragment stands very near the top among works for large instrumental ensembles…."
(Kyle Gann, Village Voice, 1998)

Roscoe Mitchell: Nonaah for Orchestra (2023)
"An eye-opening experience!"
(Ben Stapp, tubista, S.E.M. Ensemble, 2025)

Alvin Lucier: Sweepers (1997)
"In Sweepers…nothing is fully stable, like a field of tall grass disturbed by a gentle, shifting wind."
(Ron Kuivila, profesor Wesleyan university, 2025)

The Ostrava Center for New Music presents another concert in its essential series at DOX+. This time, the program takes as its starting point the axis Ostrava – New York, a connection that has brought together composers and performers from around the world for over a quarter of a century and continues to attract audiences both at home and abroad. Now, the Prague audience will also witness this dialogue of the transatlantic avant-garde. Alvin Lucier, together with Petr Kotík, stood at the very beginnings of the Ostrava Days festival (more than twenty-five years ago, the idea of Ostrava Days was developed in New York by composers P. Kotík, A. Lucier, Earle Brown, and Christian Wolff). The festival has long been home to Roscoe Mitchell and Petr Bakla, while the youngest generation of composers is represented by the returning Anna Heflin. Richard Ayres is one of the artists who has always gone “against the current,” and for more than fifteen years he has been bringing his works to life in Ostrava.