The Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble will be in residency
during the Ostrava Days 2009 Institute and Festival.
August 10 — August 30 | 2009
OSTRAVA DAYS 2009 INSTITUTE
The three-weeks long Ostrava Days is a working environment with a focus on compositions for orchestra. There are two resident orchestras, the
113-piece Janáček Philharmonic and Ostravská banda. The program includes the Institute and the 15-concert Festival, organized in the final week
of Ostrava Days, both of which are inseparably linked. Ostrava Days accepts up to 35 resident-students to insure an intimate setting in which
one-on-one relationships between all participants can develop. The working language is English as there are not translations into Czech, or any
other language. Student’s compositions are presented within the program of the festival along works by Cage, Nono, Xenakis, Feldman or Ligeti
(among others) as well as contemporary composers, may of them present at Ostrava Days. For more information and application, please visit
www.ocnmh.cz, or write to Ostrava Center for New Music, Ostrava office, Czech Republic.
August 23 — August 29 | 2009
OSTRAVA DAYS 2009 FESTIVAL
The program will feature, among others, selected compositions by resident-students of Ostrava Days and works by John Cage, Morton Feldman, Lejaren Hiller, Richard Ayres, Petr Kotík, Bernard Lang, Phill Niblock, Luigi Nono, Wolfgang Rihm, Elliott Sharp, Michael Schumacher, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Galina Ustwolskaja, Christian Wolff, Iannis Xenakis, György Ligeti, Rebecca Saunders, Salvatore Sciarrino, Petr Bakla and Michal Rataj among others.