Úterý 15. žári 2026 19:30h
Tuesday, September 15th .
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"Laug Sonoris" Ensemble
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Empty Space
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Patrik Kako - Conductor, Event Curator
Ensemble
members - Marek Přibyl - flute, Veronika Coganová - clarinet, Jiří Lukeš - accordion, Vít Janečka - violin, Štěpán Drtina - cello, Patrick Kako - artistic director
Program
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Peter Hora: Prototype:axis 2026, for ensemble
Timea Urban: Safeword, for ensemble
Mark Zanter: The Persistance of Memory,
for flute and electronics
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Tímea Urban
 is a composer born in Košice, Slovakia in 1998, currently based in Vienna. She trained in composition at the Academy of Performing Arts
in Bratislava and Universität Mozarteum Salzburg. Her artistic practice
expands on questions of nostalgia and intimacy in compositional
and performative contexts. Timea is a lecturer at the State Conservatory in Bratislava.
 Petr Hora
was born in Chrudim and studied organ and composition at the
Conservatory of Teplice. He continued his studies in composition with
Hanuš Bartoň and Luboš Mrkvička at the Music faculty of the Academy of
Performing Arts in Prague.
Mark Zanter (West Virginia, USA)
 is a composer/performer who has received commissions
from the UIUC Creative Music Orchestra, CU Symphony, the American
Composers forum, the WV Commission on the Arts, WVMTA, Due East, Solen
Dikener, Rick Kurasz, Cetin Aydar, Ankara University Soloists, Lindsey Goodman, Trifecta!, Awea Duo and many others. He has appeared
as a composer and performer on NPR’s Live at the Landmark, WILL, IPR,
Second Sunday concerts, on WVPN In Touch With The Arts, is published by
Les Productions d’OZ, Schott European American and MJIC Music
publishing, his works have been performed nationally and
internationally at festivals including, MUSIC X, June in Buffalo, The
Cortona Contemporary Music Festival, NYCEMF, the Atlantic Center for
the Arts. Dr Zanter the Director School of Art & Design at Marshall
University, WV, USA.
 Veronika Coganová
received her musical education at the Krnov
Primary School, where she studied recorder with Kateřina Vidličková,
clarinet with Jana Vidličková and Pavlin Panayotov, and saxophone with
Jiřina Fulneková. She worked in the Youth Wind Orchestra and Jazzsle
Dixieland. After studying at the Brno Conservatory and the Academy of
Performing Arts, she focuses on contemporary music and collaborates
with the Ostrava New Orchestra, the Berg Orchestra, and other ensembles.
 Jiří Lukeš, accordionst, studied composition under Eduard Dousa and accordion under Ladislav Horak at
Prague Conservatory where he received numerous awards in
accordion competitions in the Czechia, Slovakia & Croatia. He
completed master degree at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
under Ivana Loudova. His works have been performed internationally. In 2014,
a broadcast about his work was on Radio Beograd. Lately, as a
co-founder of the art group O.E.M. Arts, he has been engaged in
multimedia projects, including audiovisual art, performance, etc.
 Vít Janečka
is violinst from Hluk (Czechia). He is
experienced in interdisciplinary projects, chamber music, opera
repertoire, soloist performances, studio recordings, symphonic music,
theatre projects and video/film. Vít is alsom a member of the Prague Royal
Philharmonic Orchesta.
 Štěpán Drtina, Violincello,
was born in 1988 in Prague. He started his studies at the age of 6.
After the graduating from Prague Conservatory (Renata Strasrybkova
class), Stepan went to Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (professor
Michal Kanka class), where he got a bachelor's degree in 2012 and now
has a master’s degree from Miroslav Petras class. Stepan Drtina is a
participant of the numerous competitions, like Prague Junior Note,
International Cello contest in Linz, Austria (2004, 2008),
International contest Beethovens Hradec (2005, 2008), B. Martin
Fund Contest (2012). Stepan was a participant of Miroslav Zicha, Jiri
Barta, Dmitry Ferstman, Anner Bylsma, Volfgan Betcher and Rudolf
Gleisner master-classes. The cellist regularly takes part in assembly
concerts such as Quasi Quintet and Quartet of Pavel Borzkovec, the BERG
Orchestra of Prague, Talich chamber orchestra, Gustav Maler Youth
Orchestra, Prague Modern etc.
 Patrik Kako studied composition at the faculty of music at the Academy of
Performing Arts in Prague in the class of Luboš Mrkvička, Michal Rataj
and (Hanuš Bartoň 2017-2019), he participated in the Erasmus exchange
program at the University of Music and Theatre «Felix Mendelssohn
Bartholdy» in Leipzig in the class of Fabien Lévy and electroacoustic
music with Prof. Ipke Starke. His current compositional work is based
on the principles of analysis and various transformations of sound
recordings, the result of which serves as inspiring, coherent material
in various elements. In 2024 he founded Laug Sonoris ensemble.
Echofluxx,
started
in 2011,
is an annual festival of new media with an emphasis on experimental
music, sound art, dance and film. The
festivals are rooted in
the
interplay of risk-taking and self actualization, a resistance to
media specificity in art and the mindfulness of Cage. Echofluxx evolved
out of the international fluxus movement and the University of
Illinois-Urbana, USA, in the 70's where collaborating composers
emerged working graphically, sculpturally, in dance, theatre, film
and clay, and then through a natural post-graduate diaspora, to produce
sundry artifacts, organizations, performances and festivals world-wide.
Echofluxx director is the interdiscipinary artist Dan Senn, co-founder Echofluxx in Prague and Roulette Intermedium in
New York City.
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Středa 16. žári 2026 19:30h
Wednesday, September 16th
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Lenka Župková + Ensemble
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Loops_Space_Time
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 Lenka Župková - Violin, Composer, Event Curator
Ensemble
members - Lenka Zupková – violin, Lenka Kozderková – flute, Zdenka Brungot Sviteková – dance, Žaneta Vitová – accordion
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Program
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"A staged concert featuring dance, music
and light objects."
Roman Zabelov: Sykorka, for Accordion
Jürgen Günther: Fantasie 84, for Accordion
Lenke Župková: Time-Space, for Ensemble
Salvatore Sciarino: Caprice No.2, for Violin
Lenka Kozderková: Svitani for Flute
Grażyna Bacewicz: Caprice No.1, for Violin
Eliane Radique: Ocam mare, for Ensemble
Improvisations: for Ensemble
Click images to enlarge.
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Žaneta Vitová is an accordion player,  composer and improviser with a degree from the Prague Conservatory in 2012. She also attended the
Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory
and Atelier Performance at the Faculty of Fine Arts. She is currently a
member of Radim Hanousek´s project called "Dust in the Groove", a
platform where classical and jazz musicians meet to improvise and to
interpret Hanousek´s compositions.
 Composer and accordionist Roman Zabalov leads the Zabelov Group that focuses on an approach to music comprised of a broad-based
approch, one that includes jazz concepts, a fascination with rhythmic
sequences, abstract vocals, experimentation wuth a heavy fusion with
multicultural influences. Zabelov, a Czech - Belarusian composer and
multi-instrumentalist, comes from the small Belarusian village of
Zhilitchi. Zabelov has been studying accordion and composition in
Prague since 2010 and is currently working on his PhD.
Salvatore Sciarino is native of Palermo,  the young Sciarrino was attracted to the visual arts, but began experimenting with music when he was twelve. Though he had some lessons from
Antonino Titone and Turi Belfiore, he is primarily self-taught as a
composer. After his classical studies and a few years of university in
his home city, in 1969 he moved to Rome, where he attended Franco
Evangelisti's course in electronic music at the Accademia di Santa
Cecilia.
Zdenka Brungot Sviteková is a dancer,
collaborative artist, dance maker born in 1977 in
Bratislava. Holder of MA in modern dance from the Academy of Drama and
Music (VSMU) in Bratislava, she pursued education in Germany and France
as part of the scholarship award by the French government (2004-2005).
In 2005 she was awarded dance Web scholarship at Vienna international
ImpulsTanz festival. In 2007 and 2008 she studied with SITI Co. and the
theatre director Anne Bogart (USA). In 2014 she nourished her artistic
approaches with studies at Hřgskule i Volda (N) program Teaching Artist
/ Creative Partnerships focusing on Artistic Practices in communities
and various non theatrical contexts. In 2016 she has been enrolled in
the program Prototypes III, a research laboratory for choreographers at
the Royaumont Foundation (Fr) curated by Hervé Robbe. In 2017 – 2018
she is one of the selected artists to participate in the program
Incubateur de Chorégraphes, La fabrique de la Danse in and AIR at
the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris.
Grażyna Bacewicz
 (5
February 1909 – 17 January 1969) was a Polish composer and violinist of
Lithuanian origin. She is the second Polish female composer to have
achieved national and international recognition, the first being Maria
Szymanowska in the early 19th century. Bacewicz was born in Łódź on
February 5, 1909 to parents Maria and Vincas (Wicenty) Bacewicz. Her
father, having been from Lithuania, instilled a deep connection to
their Lithuanian heritage, despite changing his name from the Lithuanian
Bacevičius to Bacewicz. He also was her first music teacher, and
insisted all four of their children study violin, piano, and
fundamental music theory from a young age.
 Lenka Kozderková
is a sought-after contemporary music performer - among other things, in
2007 she performed Stockhausen's Zeitmasse at Carnegie Hall in New
York. After returning from her studies in France, she continued to
focus on contemporary music, improvisation and the connection of music
with visual and theatrical arts. She premiered dozens of compositions
by Czech and foreign authors. She has performed solo at festivals such
as Prague Spring, MusikunterTag Hannover, Expozice Nové hudby,
ForumNeuer music Koln, Forfest Kroměříž, Dartington music festival,
etc. In 2002 she founded the Society for Contemporary and Improvised
Music, and in 2006 the International Music Courses Music Without
Borders.
(January 24, 1932 – February 23, 2026)
was a French composer. She began working in the 1950s with her first
compositions presented in the late 1960s. Until 2000 her work was
almost exclusively created with the ARP 2500 modular synthesizer and reeel to reel
tape. Beginning in 2001 she composed mainly for acoustic
instruments. Radigue was born in Paris on January 24, 1932, to Germaine
Radigue (née Lubain) and Clément Radigue, a shopkeeper. She was
raised in Paris in the vicinity of Les Halles market. In 1953 she
married Armand Fernandez, later known as an artist by the name
Arman, with whom she lived in Nice while raising their three
children and before returning to Paris in 1967. She had studied piano and
was already composing before hearing a broadcast by the founder of
musique concrčte Pierre Schaeffer. She soon met him, and in the early
'50s became his student, working periodically at the Studio d'Essai
during visits to Paris. In the early 1960s, she was assistant to
Pierre Henry creating some of the sounds that appeared in his
works. As her work matured, Schaeffer and Henry felt that her use
of microphone feedback and long tape loops (as heard in Vice-Versa and
Feedback Works 1969-1970) was shifting from their ideals, though her
practice was still related to their methods.
Echofluxx Festivals are funded by FMErá.
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Čtvrtek 17. žári 2026 19:30h
Thursday, September 17th
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Annabelle Plum + Others
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Annabelle Plum - Voice, Composer, Event Curator
Performers
- Sarmen Almond - vocalist, Christiane Hommelsheim - voice, Annabelle Plum - voice & found object, Vojtěch Šembera - vocalist
Program
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Vojtěch Šembera: HLAS pro hlas
Annabelle Plum: Composition for
Washing Machine and Voice
Sarmen Almond: Vocal works
 Sarmen Almond, a Mexican musician, is vocal performer, intermedia artist and vocal teacher
specialising in the Roy Hart tradition. She has an M.A. in Sonic Arts
with Honours (Queen’s University, Belfast). Sarmen uses the human voice
in relation to digital and electronic media to create compositions and
decompositions of personality on stage. She pursues a constant search
for the infinite vocal possibilities that the human body throws up as
an instrument, as well as the reflection of these sonorities in
physical and imaginary spaces, shown through audio and images/videos
displayed in real time on the performer’s body.
Baritone and composer Vojtěch Šembera
studied singing at the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts in Brno with
Jaromír Novotný and Irena Troupová, composition with Ivo Medek and
Martin Smolka and then,
briefly, at studied briefly at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague
where he attended composition classes with Cornelis de Bondt, Calliope
Tsoupaki and Jan van de Putte. He focuses mainly on the interpretation
of contemporary music and the song repertoire wit an emphasis on
graphic scores.
 Christiane Hommelsheim is a vocal artist living in Berlin. She studied video and performance at the Saarbrück Academy
and continues to be on the foreground of Berlin’s improvisation
scene. She obtained a teaching licence from the Roy Hart Centre
Artistique International in 2010 and has since taught singers, actors
and dancers throughout Europe giving
private lessons, voice coaching for productions of dance and theater
and workshops in Germany and abroad. Her artistic work focuses on the
performative use of the human voice.
 Annabelle Plum is a singer who employs her extensive
vocal range of over three octaves in new music, improvisation,
and jazz. She specializes in experimental vocal techniques
and tonal color, and she is also engaged in the interpretation of
graphic scores. Plum collaborates with both Czech and international
contemporary composers. She holds a degree in Theatre Arts from Brown
University
(USA) and in Performance Design and Practice from Central St. Martins –
University of the Arts London (UK). She studied extended vocal
techniques with Jonathan Hart Makwaia (France, USA) and voice for the
Noh Theatre with Hisa Uzawa (Kanze School) in Tokyo.
 from Prague, studied violin at the Janacek Academy of Music in Brno and at the University of Music and Theatre in Hanover. Župková performs
as a violin soloist on the five-string electric violin and the viola
with, among others, the audio designer Andre Bartetzki and flutist
Lenka Kozderkova (Duo Goelan). From 2000 to
2008 she worked as a composer and stage musician for municipal theatres
in Zurich, Nuremberg, Hanover, Berlin and Aachen. Lenka is artistic
director of the Hanover
interdisciplinary ensemble Megaphon since 2007. Her work focuses on new
and experimental music, performance and music theatre. She conceives
and realises performances in non-places, multimedia music theatre
projects and spatial productions. Through careful preparation,
amplification of string instruments with targeted positioning and
movement of the musicians in space, she searches for expanded sound
possibilities to for new playing techniques and spatial
possibiities.
Jürgen Günther... info soon.
Echofluxx,
started
in 2011,
is an annual festival of new media with an emphasis on experimental
music, sound art, dance and film. The
festivals are rooted in
the
interplay of risk-taking and self actualization, a resistance to
media specificity in art and the mindfulness of Cage. Echofluxx evolved
out of the international fluxus movement and the University of
Illinois-Urbana, USA, in the 70's where collaborating composers
emerged working graphically, sculpturally, in dance, theatre, film
and clay, and then through a natural post-graduate diaspora, to produce
sundry artifacts, organizations, performances and festivals world-wide.
Echofluxx director is the interdiscipinary artist Dan Senn, co-founder Echofluxx in Prague and Roulette Intermedium in
New York City.
Click QR poster to download pdf version.
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