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June 29, 2008, Forfest, Kroměříž, Czech Republic. Final festival concert - composer's concert including world premiere of
INVITO composed for Scholu Benedictu Pragensis.
Featured soloists: Lenka Kozderková - flute, Štěpán Škoch - saxophone, Vincent Rigot - organ.
http://www.forfest.cz - 2007-08 - Fulbright Scholar to the Center for New Music And Audio Technologies, UC Berkeley..::.. check some pics here
- Apr 14, 2008: World premiere of The Autumn Story by the Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players. Hertz Concert Hall, 8 pm.
- April 3rd, 2008, 8 pm ..::.. Final concert based on new pieces composed during my "Fulbright time" in Berkeley and San Francisco. Concert features the premiere of new sound live performance and of a acousmatic piece Machine-Hand-Mind-Memory. CNMAT, 1750 Arch Street Berkeley.
- A price for the Dreaming Life in the Musica Nova 2007 Competition for DREAMING LIFE of 2007.
- Composer's Portrait incl. the premiere of SF piece It's All Impromptu in the Swedish Radio P2 program MONITOR, Jan 16, 2008, 9.30 pm amd Jan 17., 12:30 pm
- November 30 - CNMAT, UC Berkeley, a composer's talk as a part of a composer's residence. For details see http://alpha.cnmat.berkeley.edu/event/2007/11/20/michal_rataj
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Nov 17, 2007 - World premiere of Silence Talking for violin and live electornic
in French Institute, Lisbon, Portugal. The piece was composed specially for
Lenka Zupkova (violin)
and Andre Bertetzki.
The program and links to the French Institute in Lisbon can be found at http://www.ifp-lisboa.com/# - November 9, 2007: Composer's Talk, University of California San Diego, Department of Music
- A commission by the Swedisch Radio for a new radiophonic work. The new piece will be broadcast after February 2008 in an experimental radio program slot MONITOR
- The premiere of the newes piece "...of Hidden Voice..." was played at The Pensylvania State University in State College, PA October 1, 2006.
Commissioned and played by James Umble (saxophone) and pianist Jun Okada.
Next performances were: Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo Michigan USA on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 (James Umble, Jun Okada) and State University of New York at Potsdam, Potsdam, New York on Saturday, October 28, 2006 (James Umble with pianist Hannah Gruber)
http://www.fpa.ysu.edu/music/main/umble1.htm - Prize for the most successfull serious music composer 2005 by OSA
OSA - The Performing and Mechanical Rights Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
More (in czech) on www.osa.cz - Confluencias 2006 - 2. place in the Electroacoustic Miniatures Competition
(Huelva, Spain) for the Hearing First
http://confluencias.org - First performance of new ensemble piece Hearing Heart
commisioned by French Institute Prague.
The piece will be
- performed by Prague Philharmonia,
- conducted by Kaspar Zehnder,
- computer assisted by GMEM, Marseille
- included in the Prague Philharmonie ABO S 2006 "Le bel aujourd´hui"
- in Švandovo divadlo, April 10., 2006
- The Cleveland Duo and James Umble commission of a new piece for saxophone, violin and piano (end April)
- Commision of the Svatovaclavske slavnosti Festival for organ, chant choir, saxophone and electronics