Miroslav Srnka
composer
Miroslav Srnka was born in Prague in 1975.
He studied musicology at the Charles University in Prague with Jarmila Gabrielová (1993–99) and composition at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts with Milan Slavický (1998–2003).
Study trips took him to the Humboldt University in Berlin 1995-96 and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris in 2001.
He has participated in exchange programmes and composition courses with Ivan Fedele in 2002, Philippe Manoury in 2004 and at IRCAM Paris.
He received the Gideon Klein Award in 2001 as well as the Leoš Janácek Anniversary Prize in 2004, Ernst von Siemens Composers’ Prize in 2009 and Wilfried-Steinbrenner-Stiftung Prize in 2009.
In 2005 his short opera “Wall” after Jonathan Safran Foer was premiered at the Berlin State Opera.
He was “Composer for Heidelberg” at the Theater und Philharmonisches Orchester Heidelberg in 2006-07.
In 2011, his chamber opera Make No Noise was premiered at the Munich Opera Festival and his children's "comics" Jakub Flügelbunt in Semperoper Dresden.
His compositions have been commissioned, premiered or performed by leading interpreters
such as the Ensemble Modern with Matthias Pintscher and Franck Ollu, Ensemble Intercontemporain with Claron McFadden and David Robertson, Klangforum Wien with Sylvain Cambreling, BBC Philharmonic with Cornelius Meister, Staatskapelle Dresden with Tomáš Hanus, Ostravská Banda with Peter Rundel and Petr Kotík, Quatuor Diotima, Arditti Quartet, Zebra Trio, members of Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Prague Philharmonia (Prague Modern), Annsi Karttunen with Magnus Lindberg, Dagmar Pecková with Eric Nielsen, Francesco Dillon with Emanuele Torquati, Jiří Bárta with Jana Boušková, Saar Berger,
and at festivals including Prague Spring, Musica Strasbourg, Ultraschall Berlin, Wien Modern, Présences Paris, Milano Musica, Münchener Opernfestspiele, Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo, Ostrava New Music Days, Contempuls and others.
Publisher » Bärenreiter Verlag
last update » 01/2012