Melos Ethos Ensemble

Basics

Artistic director:Marián Lejava
Conductor:Marián Lejava
Size:Sinfonietta
Instruments:

soprano, flute, oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon, baritone saxophone, french horn, trumpet, trombone, accordion, piano, 2 percussions, 2 violins, viola, violoncello, double-bass

Specific equipment:

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CountrySlovakia
PartnerMusic Centre Slovakia

Statistics

20082007200620052004
Performances840
Pieces26160
National Pieces14120
International Pieces1240
First performances960
Commisions960
Audience7003200

Repertoire

Main national repertoire

Jana Kmitová: Wound
Marián Lejava: Flat Lands and Plains
Wrath
Lucia Papanetzová: Záhir
Jevgenij Iršai: 4.48 - Kyrie Eleison
Iris Szeghy: Ave Maria
Vladimír Bokes: Musica Stricta, op. 70
Petra Oliveira-Bachratá: Aberrationes
Boško Milaković: Tetrapophonic
Martin Burlas: Morendo Maestoso

International repertoire

Edgard Varèse: Octandre
Pierre Boulez: Dérive
Toshio Hosokawa: Slow Dance
Mei-Fang Lin: Time-Tracks
Kaija Saariaho: Cendres
Katharine Soper: As The Crow Flies
Jerzy Kornowicz: Dawning Light IV „Melos-Ethos“
Stephen Gorbos: Col Canto
Naomi Epstein: [Untitled]
Barnaby Hollington: Magnificent Octopus

Potential use of the Re:new repertoire

Possibilities for using network-repertoire:
international Festival of Contemporary Music Melos-Ethos 2009 (Bratislava, Slovakia)
International Festival of Contemporary Music "Evenings of New Music" 2008,2009 (Bratislava, Slovakia)
National Festival od Contemporary Art (Košice, Slovakia)
Petrograde´s Musical Spring 2009 (Petrograde, Russia)
- other stages of contemporary music, further co-operations

Submitted pieces

Jana Kmitová: Wound; Metamerie

Marián Lejava: Dickinson-songs; 
Wrath Session

Lucia Papanetzová: Záhir

Petra Oliveira-Bachratá: Subjective risk

Lubica Cekovská: Postludium

Roman Berger: Post scriptum; Omaggio a L. v. B.

 

Address book

Adress

Eva Planková Music Centre Slovakia
Michalská 10
815 36 Bratislava
Slovakia

website

http://www.hc.sk

 


Information

Ensemble specialises in the performance of contemporary music and music of 20.century. Founded in autumn 2005, the name refers to the Slovakia’s most important international contemporary music festival, its intention being performing and commissioning new works from both Slovak and internatinal composers, promotion of young Slovak composers, international performances. The ensemble groups the most prominent young Slovak musicians. The main conductor of the ensemble is Marián Lejava. Besides international performances ensemble regularly playes concerts within the framework of contemporary music’s stages in Slovakia.

Activity

Participation

2005 - International Festival of Contemporary Music Melos-Ethos (Bratislava, Slovakia)2006 - International Festival of Contemporary Music Warsaw Autumn (Special concert by the festival; Warsaw, Poland)
2006 - National Festival of Contemporary Art (Košice, Slovakia)

Participation abroad

2006 - International Festival of Contemporary Music Warsaw Autumn (Special concert by the festival; Warsaw, Poland)

Discography

2005 - Melos Ethos Ensemble - CD with compositions by young Slovak composers -Jana Kmitová (1976), Lucia Papanetzová (1978), Boško Milaković; (1993), Lubica Cekovská (1975), Marián Lejava (1976).
2006 - Slovaks For Warsaw Autumn - CD with live-recording (Warsaw Autumn – conductor Marián Lejava); pieces by slovak composers Jana Kmitová, Lucia Papanetzová, Ladislav Kupkovic; Marián Lejava and polish composer Jerzy Kornowicz
2006 - 1st Alexander Moyzes International Competition for Composers (Bratislava, conductor Zsolt Nagy) - CD with live-recordings of winning ensemble compositions; piece by Lukáš Borzík (Slovakia), Pawel Przezwanski (Poland), Barnaby Hollington (England)

Concert relations

International Festival of Contemporary Music Melos-Ethos (Bratislava, Slovakia)

Media relations

Slovak Radio, Bratislava