2024-2025 Season
Saturday, June 28 at 6pm
Willow Place Auditorium
MEET THE OUTLAWS:
Roscoe Mitchell and Petr Kotik
The Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble
Kamala Sankaram, Soprano
Kerry Wolf and Richard Toth, Narrators
Petr Kotik, Conductor
Program:
Roscoe Mitchell, Nonaah for Orchestra (2025)
Petr Kotik, The Gate (2025)
Free of charge.
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Wednesday, April 16, 2025
S.E.M. Ensemble Spring Concert
Bohemian National Hall
321 East 73rd Street, New York
The S.E.M. Ensemble
Petr Kotik, Director
Performing works by Petr Kotik, Christian Wolff, Amina Claudine Myers, Judith Berkson, Charles Ames, and Lejaren Hiller.
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Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Emerging Composers Workshop
Willow Place Auditorium, Brooklyn
S.E.M. Ensemble
Petr Kotik, Conductor
Katie Cox, Flute
Bohdan Hilash, Clarinet
Blair Hamrick, Horn
Chris Nappi, Percussion
Joseph Kubera, Piano
Lynn Bechtold, Violin
Ben Larsen, Cello
Participants: Alon Nechushtan, Jesse Gelaznik, Xu Zheng, Brady Wolff, Charles Waters, and Judith Berkson.
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Wednesday Evening, December 18, 2024 at 8:00 pm
S.E.M. Ensemble Winter Concert
Paula Cooper Gallery
534 W. 21st St., New York
The Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble
Performing works by John Cage, Anna Heflin, Luboš Mrkvička, Rudolf Komorous, Morton Feldman, and Petr Kotik.
"Withstanding the pressure to conform is the essence.
Everything else is optional."
Petr Kotik, Director
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7pm, Thursday, December 12, 2024
Bohemian National Hall - Cinema Room
321 East 73rd Street, New York
Nationality? Works of Art? Music?
Reflections on The Year of Czech Music
The Czech Center New York invites you to an evening that brings together composers, musicians, academics, and musicologists to explore the question:
Does music have a nationality?
The event will examine how music is used in cultural diplomacy and challenge the emphasis placed on the nationality of compositions.
Invited speakers include professor Michael Beckerman, NYU Music Department; New York City based author Kurt Gottschalk; and composers: Petr Kotík, Artistic director of Ostrava Days (Czech Republic) and S.E.M. Ensemble (New York), Alex Mincek, Director of Institute for New Music, Northwestern University Chicago, Miya Masaoka, Director of Sound Art Program, Columbia University, and past residents of Ostrava Days Institute Ian Davis, Jordan Dykstra, and James Falzone. The evening will also feature excerpts from documentaries about the biennial Ostrava Days Festival (2007 and 2023). Founded by Petr Kotík, Ostrava Days Institute and Festival follows the vision of providing a platform for music of our time with special focus and working with orchestra. With a radical focus on international cooperation, the festival offers a unique opportunity to foster the uncompromising and authentic presentation of 20th- and 21st-century music.
This event precedes a concert by the S.E.M. Ensemble – The Year of Czech Music in Conclusion at the Paula Cooper Gallery on December 18.
The program will include music by John Cage, Rudolf Komorous, Anna Heflin, Luboš Mrkvička, Morton Feldman, and Petr Kotík.
Free of charge.
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Saturday, October 5th, 2024 @ 6:30 pm
Roulette Intermedium
509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, New York
The Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble
Petr Kotik, Conductor
performs
Phill Niblock – Exploratory, Rhine version “Looking for Daniel”
American premiere of a work for large orchestra, composed for Petr Kotik and the festival Ostrava Days 2019
As part of “Phill Niblock Forever: A Marathon Memorial”
12-hour continuous event from noon to midnight
Free of charge
