Petr Kotik

Petr Kotík ( born January 27, 1942 in Prague) is a Czech composer.

The son of the painter Jan Kotík studied at the Prague Conservatory flute with František Čech and then at the Vienna Music Academy under Hans Reznicek. From 1960 to 1963 he took private composition lessons with Jan Rychlík in Prague, after which he continued his studies until 1966 in Vienna with Karl Schiske, Hanns Jelinek and Friedrich Cerha continued.

He is the founder of the ensemble Musica Viva Pragensis (1961) and the ensemble for experimental music Quax ( 1966). In 1969 Kotík in the United States and was invited by Lejaren Hiller and Lukas Foss employees of the Center of the Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Buffalo. With the S.E.M. he founded Ensemble he organized an annual concert series in New York and toured the U.S. and Europe.

From 1971 to 1977 taught Kotík flute at the State University of New York at Buffalo. From 1977 he worked at the publication of the musical oeuvre of Marcel Duchamp, which was released in 1978 on LP and 1991 on CD. Since the early 1980s he worked as a conductor, where he focused on the work of John Cage.

In 1991 he founded the Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble that quickly distinguished himself as an orchestra for contemporary music and world premieres of works by David Firsts, Somei Satohs, Leo Smith played and to the works of Feldman, Cage and Varese devoted. In 2000 he founded the Ostrava Center for New Music, which hosts a biennial festival and Summer Institute in Ostrava.

Works

  • Congo (1962 )
  • Counterpoint II ( 1962-63 )
  • Music for 3 ( Band of per tri) In Memoriam January Rychlík (1964 )
  • Spontano (1964)
  • Kontrabandt (1967)
  • Alley (1969 /70)
  • There is singularly Nothing ( 1971-73, 1995)
  • John Mary ( text by Gertrude Stein ) ( 1973-74 )
  • If I Told Him ( text by Gertrude Stein ) ( 1974-75 )
  • Many Many Women ( text by Gertrude Stein ) ( 1975-78 )
  • Drums ( 1977-81 )
  • Adagio ( 1980-97 )
  • Chamber Music ( 1981-82 )
  • Apparent Orbit (1981, 1984-85 )
  • Spheres & Attraction (1981-2006)
  • Solos and Incidental Harmonies ( 1983-85 )
  • Integrated solos I, II, III ( 1986-88 )
  • Wilsie Bridge ( 1986-88 )
  • Letters to Olga ( text by Václav Havel) ( 1989-91 )
  • Variations for Orchestra 2 and a consort of Trumpets (1995 )
  • Quiescent form ( 1995-96 )
  • Music in Two Movements (1998-2003)
  • Music for Cello and Piano ( 2000-01 )
  • Devin (Text Vladislav Vančura ) ( 2000-04 )
  • Variations for Orchestra 3 ( 2003-05 )
  • For ZS (2004)
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