Michal Rataj

MICHAL RATAJ

26th Jan 1975 born in Pisek, Czech Republic
1993 - 1999: graduated from the Faculty of Arts at the Charles University, dep. of musicology (1999)
1995: scholarship at the Royal Holloway University of London, UK
1998: scholarship at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and at the Hochschule für Musik Hans Eisler
1998 - 2003: composition studies at the Academy of Music, Prague (prof. Ivan Kurz)

since 2000: music editor and radioart producer, Czech Radio, Prague
www.rozhlas.cz/radiocustica

2002: scholarship at the Universität der Künste, Berlin (prof. Franz Martin Olbrisch)
2003 - 2006: PhD. studies, thesis on Electroacoustic music and selected concepts of radioart, ... see downloads (in czech with english synopsis)
spring 2004: Artist-in-Residence, MuseumsQuartier Wien (Austrian govement support)
since 2004: assistant professor, department of composition, Academy of Performing Arts, Prague

2007 - 2008: Fulbright Scholar, Center For New Music And Audio Technologies, UC Berkeley, California

member of the EBU Ars Acustica

member of the SHOCK group

lectures on the history of contemporary music, electroacoustic music and technology and (New York University, Prague, Seniors´ university, Prague)

review, articles on the contemporary music and interpretation (daily press, Harmonie, HIS Voice, UNI ao.)

recordings with following labels: EMI, Radioservis, HisVoice

performances at various european festivals (V:NM Graz, AudioArt Kraków, NextWave Prague, Multiplace Bratislava)

"stage" music for radio, theatre and TV productions

sound graphic of the Czech Radio 3 - Vltava (2002)