{"id":12906,"date":"2024-06-24T13:39:04","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T11:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emag.baerenreiter.com\/srnka-miroslav\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T06:53:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T04:53:53","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’s 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’s Prize in 2009. His works have been performed by renowned interpreters including the Berliner Philharmoniker, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, the Czech Philharmonic, WDR Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Modern, Klangforum Wien and the Munich Chamber Orchestra, by conductors such as Peter E\u00f6tv\u00f6s, Jakub Hr\u016f\u0161a and Susanna M\u00e4lkki at festivals like Lucerne Festival, Ultraschall Berlin, Wien Modern, Pr\u00e9sences Paris, Prague Spring, Musica Strasbourg, Milano Musica and Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo.<\/p>\n

In the 2024\/2025 season, Superorganisms for large orchestra took center stage with its main commissioner, the Berliner Philharmoniker. Following its world premiere in Tokyo with the NHK Symphony Orchestra, the piece has already been performed in national premieres with the Czech Philharmonic and David Robertson at the Prague Spring Festival’s closing concert, and with the Orchestre de Paris under Klaus M\u00e4kel\u00e4.
\nIn 2025, the new opera Voice Killer received its world premiere at the MusikTheater an der Wien, performed by Klangforum Wien and the Arnold Sch\u00f6nberg Choir.<\/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 “Composer for Heidelberg” at Theater Heidelberg. In 2011, his chamber opera Make No Noise premiered at the Bayerische Staatsoper and Jakub Fl\u00fcgelbunt, a “comic book for three singers and orchestra”, 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. In 2022, Standstill for harpsichord and orchestra was premiered by Mahan Esfahani with the G\u00fcrzenich Orchestra Cologne under Fran\u00e7ois-Xavier Roth. In 2024, Is This Us? for two horns and orchestra was premiered by Saar Berger, P\u0159emysl Vojta, the WDR Symphony Orchestra and Elena Schwarz at the final concert of the Acht Br\u00fccken Festival.
\nIn 2026, he was honored by the Czech collecting society OSA as the most successful Czech composer of classical music abroad.<\/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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