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2024 - 2025 Season

Upcoming:

Thursday, April 3* , 2025 (exact date TBA)

Willow Place Auditorium

The Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble

Program TBA

 

Wednesday, April 8*, 2025 (exact date TBA)

Bohemian National Hall, New York

The Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble

Program TBA

 

August 11-30, 2025

Ostrava, Czech Republic
Ostrava Days 2025

Past:

Saturday, October 5, 2024 at 6:30pm

Roulette Intermedium, Brooklyn

Niblock Forever: A Marathon Memorial

 

The Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble
Petr Kotik, Conductor

 

Program:

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

 

 Friday, October 11, 2024

Aula Maxima, School of Film, Music and Theatre, University College Cork (Ireland) 

 

Ostravská banda with members of S.E.M. Ensemble

Petr Kotik, Conductor

with special guests 

Irena Troupová, soprano
John Godfrey, electric guitar
Susan Stenger, flute
Alex Petcu, percussion
Yseult Cooper Stockdale, violoncello 

 

Program:

Martin Smolka - Oh, My Admired C-Minor 

Donnchach Mac Aodha - Music for Flute and a Two Handed Pianist 

Petr Kotik - Many Many Women Plus I 

Phill Niblock - Petr’s Charm 

 

 

Sunday, October 13, 2024

The Guesthouse, Cork (Ireland)

 

Ostravská banda with members of S.E.M. Ensemble

Petr Kotik, Conductor

with special guests 

Irena Troupová, soprano
John Godfrey, electric guitar
Susan Stenger, flute
Yseult Cooper Stockdale, violoncello 

 

Program:

Concert I, 3:00pm
Karen Power - Bats of Namibia (2020)
Luboš Mrkvička - Quartet, Part A (2019)
Jonathan Mangle - Granular Dusk (2022)
Danny McCarthy - XXXXII (2010)
Isabel Mundry - Balancen (2006)
Morton Feldman - Structures for string quartet (1951) 

Rudolf Komorous - Olympia (1964) 

 

Concert II, 6:00pm
Christian Wolff - Flutist
Danny McCarthy - Five Leave Falling
John Godfrey - Bus Piece
George Brecht - Drip Music
Petr Kotik - Many Many Women Plus II  

 

Closing Event, 7:30pm
Pauline Oliveros - From Unknown Silences

 

Thursday, November 21, 2024

DOX+, Prague    

Sciarrino Orchestra

 

Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

Winter concert

 

January 28, 2025      

Švanda Theater Grand Hall, Prague 

 

Composition as a Process: Petr Kotik directs members of the Prague Philharmonia and guests

 

February 5-12, 2025

Willow Place Auditorium, Brooklyn    

Emerging Composers Workshop/Readings

 

Friday, February 12, 2025

Willow Place Auditorium, Brooklyn    

Orch. Performance of Workshop composers