{"id":12906,"date":"2024-06-24T13:39:04","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T11:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emag.baerenreiter.com\/srnka-miroslav\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T14:49:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T13:49:14","slug":"srnka-miroslav","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/emag.baerenreiter.com\/en\/srnka-miroslav\/","title":{"rendered":"Srnka, Miroslav"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Miroslav Srnka\u2019s international breakthrough came in 2016 when his opera South Pole was premiered at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich under Kirill Petrenko, in a production by Hans Neuenfels that featured Rolando Villaz\u00f3n and Thomas Hampson in the title roles.<\/p>\n

But even before that, Srnka had received several major commissions and awards, including the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation Composer\u2019s Prize in 2009. His works have been performed by renowned interpreters including the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic, Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Modern, Klangforum Wien and the Munich Chamber Orchestra, by conductors such as Peter E\u00f6tv\u00f6s, Jakub Hr\u016f\u0161a, Susanna M\u00e4lkki and Cornelius Meister at festivals like Lucerne Festival, Ultraschall Berlin, Wien Modern, Pr\u00e9sences Paris, Prague Spring, Musica Strasbourg, Milano Musica, Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo, Ostrava New Music Days and Contempuls.<\/p>\n

His new orchestral work “Superorganisms”, commissioned by the Berliner Philharmoniker and its chief conductor Kirill Petrenko, was premiered by the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo in 2023. Further performances have taken place \u2013 and are forthcoming \u2013\u00a0 with the Orchestre de Paris, the Czech Philharmonic, the Berliner Philharmoniker, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.<\/p>\n

On 14 June 2025, his new opera \u201cVoice Killer\u201d (an opera based on a true story, libretto by Tom Holloway) received its world premiere at the MusikTheater an der Wien.<\/p>\n

In the 2023\/24 season, more new works by Srnka will also be performed: The WDR Symphony Orchestra will give the world premiere of a new piece for two horns, the harpsichord concerto \u201cStandstill\u201d for Mahan Esfahani, premiered by the G\u00fcrzenich Orchestra Cologne under Francois-Xavier Roth, will be performed by the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra for the first time in the Czech Republic, and a new piece for violin will be premiered in the competition violin section of the Prague Spring Festival.<\/p>\n

His short opera Wall, based on a work by Jonathan Safran Foer, was premiered at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin in 2005, and in 2006\/2007 he was the \u201cComposer for Heidelberg\u201d at Theater Heidelberg. In 2011, his chamber opera Make No Noise premiered at the Bayerische Staatsoper and Jakub Fl\u00fcgelbunt, a \u201ccomic book for three singers and orchestra\u201d, received its first performance at the Semperoper in Dresden. In 2017, the Dialogues Festival in Salzburg presented a comprehensive portrait of the composer with numerous events and premieres. For its 100th season in 2018\/2019, the Los Angeles Philharmonic commissioned Srnka to write the piece Overheating. In 2015, the concert series musica viva in Munich presented move 01 & 02. During the same series in 2019, Speed of Truth was given its first performance with J\u00f6rg Widmann, clarinet, and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Bavarian Radio Chorus conducted by Susanna M\u00e4lkki. The commissioned work Milky Way, written for the ECHO (European Concert Hall Organisation) Rising Stars Tour and the trumpeter Simon H\u00f6fele, had been premiered at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, with further performances in the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Cologne Philharmonie, the Philharmonie Luxembourg, the M\u00fcPa Budapest, The Sage Gateshead, St Lukes in London, the Gulbenkian in Lisbon, Baden-Baden and Birmingham.<\/p>\n

In 2021 the Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, together with the Klangforum Wien under Patrick Hahn, premiered his new chamber opera Singularity \u2013 A Space Opera for Young Voices.<\/p>\n

Srnka has collaborated for many years with the ensemble Quatuor Diotima, which has performed his quartets across Europe and issued a portrait CD with chamber music on the Na\u00efve label.<\/p>\n

Srnka, born in Prague in 1975, studied musicology at the Charles University and composition at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts. He is professor for composition at the Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik und Tanz in Cologne and a sought-after juror at competitions such as the renowned Mahler Competition in Bamberg or the Mauricio Kagel Composition Competition. He is also a member of the Artistic Advisory Board of the Prague Spring Festival, where he founded and co-curates Prague Offspring, a festival which focuses on new music.<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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