Ostrava Center for New Music
Ostrava Center for New Music (OCNM) was founded in 2000 thanks to the initiative of Petr Kotík. A series of concerts with the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra (featuring work by Earl Brown, John Cage, Alvin Lucier, Pauline Oliveros, Martin Smolka, and Karlheinz Stockhausen) started the idea of creating a special independent organization for new music in Ostrava, Czech Republic.
OCNM was created for the purpose of organizing Ostrava Days, Institute and Festival, which gives composers, musicians and musicologists an opportunity to work with leading representatives of contemporary music. Ostrava Days is a working and learning environment focused on orchestral compositions. OCNM has founded the international chamber orchestra Ostravská Banda and has been organizing concerts in cooperation with Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra since 2002. Since 2012, OCNM has been organizing in cooperation with National Moravian-Silesian Theatre a festival of contemporary opera - NODO (New Opera Days Ostrava). In 2017, a resident symphony orchestra called ONO — Ostrava New Orchestra was founded. OCNM also produces publications about contemporary music as part of the Ostrava Days Report series.
NODO '26
Ostrava Days '25
Petr Kotík Artistic Director
Renáta Spisarová Executive Director
Kristýna Konczyna Office Manager, PR
Barbora Skálová Chief Project Coordinator; Marketing Manager
Mikuláš Zelinský Technical Manager
Board of Directors:
Stanislav Brtník
Vladimíra Glatzová
Kristýna Konczyna
Petr Kotík
Renáta Spisarová
Libor Winkler
Veronika Winklerová
Ostrava Office:
Ostravské centrum nové hudby
Dr. Šmerala 2
702 00 Ostrava, Czech Republic
Tel., fax: +420/596 203 426
E-mail: info@newmusicostrava.cz
New York Office:
Ostrava Center for New Music
25 Columbia Place
Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA
Tel: +1/718 488 76 59
E-mail: info@semensemble.org
