{"id":12751,"date":"2024-06-04T08:54:17","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T06:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emag.baerenreiter.com\/cekovska-lubica\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T15:00:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T14:00:41","slug":"cekovska-lubica","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/emag.baerenreiter.com\/en\/cekovska-lubica\/","title":{"rendered":"\u010cekovsk\u00e1, \u013dubica"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u013dubica \u010cekovsk\u00e1 was born in 1975 in Humenne. In 1993-1998 she studied music theory at the Academy of Performing Arts and composition with professor Du\u0161an Martin\u010dek. During her postgraduate studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London, she continued her studies in composition with Prof. Paul Patterson and took part in courses with Robert Saxton, Thomas Ad\u00e8s, Arvo P\u00e4rt and Harrison Birtwistle. She has been awarded the Cuthbert Nunn Composition Prize of the Royal Academy of Music (1998), the Lewerhulme Award (1999), the Elsie Owen Prize (1999) of the Royal Academy of Music, an ISH Foundation Scholarship from H.R.H. Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mother (1998-2000) and the Jan Levoslav Bella Prize for her composition Piano Concerto (2004, Slovak Music Fund). She received the Tatra banka Foundation Prize for 2013 or on 6 July 2021 she received another award, the Slovak Minister of Culture Prize for 2020. In deciding on this prize, two of her operas, “Dorian Gray” and “Impresario Dotcom”, were particularly singled out. In 2023, she won the DOSKY Award in the category of Extraordinary Achievement of the Year for her authorship of the opera Impresario Dotcom. For the year 2023 she was awarded the Prize of the Pre\u0161ov Self-Governing Region (PSK) for her unique contribution in the field of culture and musical art in Slovakia and for exceptional results with international overlap.<\/p>\n

Her works have been performed at major contemporary music festivals. In 2009, her composition “Turbulence” was selected for performance at the ISCM World New Music Days festival in Sweden. In the same year she composed her first full-length opera “Dorian Gray” commissioned by the Slovak National Theatre to a libretto by Kate Pullinger, staged by Nicola Raab, conducted by Christopher Ward, which had a successful premiere in Bratislava in 2013, the world premiere was part of the ISCM World Music Days in Slovakia. In the 2010\/2011 season she was composer-in-residence at the Altenburg-Gera Philharmonic.<\/p>\n

In 2018 she was commissioned by the choir of the Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR Chor) to write for them “Three Fragments from Stabat Mater ” which was performed together with Dvo\u0159\u00e1k’s Stabat Mater, at the Prinzregententheater in Munich under the direction of conductor Howard Arman.<\/p>\n

In 2019 she became assistant professor and later associate professor at the Jan Albrecht Academy of Music and Arts in Bansk\u00e1 \u0160tiavnica (HUAJA).<\/p>\n

In 2020, her second full-length opera, the buffa “Impresario Dotcom” – Fassung f\u00fcr Bregenz, with libretto by Laura Olivi, staged by Elisabeth St\u00f6ppler, conducted by Christopher Ward, had a successful premiere at the Bregenz Festival and was shortened due to Covid’s restrictions from the original 120min to 90min.<\/p>\n

Impresario Dotcom was given it\u2018s Slovak premiere in 2023 on the boards of the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava.<\/p>\n

In 2021 she was commissioned by the Jan\u00e1\u010dek Opera in Brno to write a full-length opera based on Virginia Woolf’s cult novel “Orlando”. The opera “Here I am, Orlando” was based on the English libretto by Viktoria Knotkova, staged by Ji\u0159\u00ed He\u0159man, conducted by R\u00f3bert Kru\u017e\u00edk. The premiere took place on 14 June 2024 at the Jan\u00e1\u010dek Opera, Brno.<\/p>\n

She is currently working on several commissions, a newly prepared opera “Judina” for the National Theatre in Ko\u0161ice and a commission for a large symphony orchestra for the 75th anniversary of the Slovak Philharmonic in Bratislava, “Maison de la Musique en sept p\u00e9riodes” planned world premiere on 24 October 2024.<\/p>\n

The opera Dorian Gray will be given its German premiere in 2025-26 at the Eduard von Winterstein Theater in Annaberg Buchholz.<\/p>\n

The author is represented by the German Baerenreiter Publishing Group.<\/p>\n

Recently her opera “Here I am Orlando” has been nominated for this year\u2019s World Premiere Award \u2013 International OPERA AWARDS.<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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