Juraj Filas
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Juraj Filas is a Slovak
composer.
Juraj Filas is considered one of the most important contemporary composers. His work includes more than 100 compositions: symphonies, cantatas, concerts, numerous compositions for chamber music, as well as the prize-winning TV opera “momento mori”, a Concerto Grosso “Copernicus”, the Opera “Jane Eyre” which he finished in 2010, and more recently “The Wisdom of the Wise Man” a cantata for choir, violoncello and organ, “The Song of Solomon”, a cantata for soli, choir and orchestra, and the requiem “Oratio Spei” which is dedicated to the victims of terrorism. All three of these works will be premiered in New York's Carnegie Hall
and the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola (New York City)|Church of St. Ignatius Loyola]] respectively.
His compositions were performed by well known soloists including Joseph Alessi, trombone soloist of the New York Philharmonic, and ensembles and orchestras in Europe and in the U.S. - including the Beethoven Festival in Bonn/Germany, at the Prague Spring Festival, by the ORF Vienna, in the Tonhalle of Zurich, as well as in London, Glasgow, St. Gallen, Genf, Fulda, Paris, Hong Kong, Taipei, Tokyo, and Mexico City, as well as at Carnegie Hall (New York) , and by the choir and orchestra of Sacred Music at a Sacred Space in New York. Several of his works were broadcast by Czech and Slovak Radio and Television, and are recorded on CD. Rob Cameron on Radio praha called him "one of the Czech Republic's most important contemporary classical composers".
Filas uses a distinctly lyrical and emotional musical language with which he strives to maintain the distinct European musical traditions of some of the masters such as Verdi, Beethoven and Mahler.
Filas graduated from the Prague Conservatory in 1976 in voice and composition, and received a diploma in composition in 1981 from professors Jan Zdeněk Bartoš
and Jiří Pauer
. He lives in Prague and is an Assistant Professor at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
where he teaches composition.
Concertante
Wind orchestra
Chamber music
Keyboard
Vocal
Choral
Slovaks
The Slovaks, Slovak people, or Slovakians are a West Slavic people that primarily inhabit Slovakia and speak the Slovak language, which is closely related to the Czech language.Most Slovaks today live within the borders of the independent Slovakia...
composer.
Juraj Filas is considered one of the most important contemporary composers. His work includes more than 100 compositions: symphonies, cantatas, concerts, numerous compositions for chamber music, as well as the prize-winning TV opera “momento mori”, a Concerto Grosso “Copernicus”, the Opera “Jane Eyre” which he finished in 2010, and more recently “The Wisdom of the Wise Man” a cantata for choir, violoncello and organ, “The Song of Solomon”, a cantata for soli, choir and orchestra, and the requiem “Oratio Spei” which is dedicated to the victims of terrorism. All three of these works will be premiered in New York's Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....
and the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola (New York City)|Church of St. Ignatius Loyola]] respectively.
His compositions were performed by well known soloists including Joseph Alessi, trombone soloist of the New York Philharmonic, and ensembles and orchestras in Europe and in the U.S. - including the Beethoven Festival in Bonn/Germany, at the Prague Spring Festival, by the ORF Vienna, in the Tonhalle of Zurich, as well as in London, Glasgow, St. Gallen, Genf, Fulda, Paris, Hong Kong, Taipei, Tokyo, and Mexico City, as well as at Carnegie Hall (New York) , and by the choir and orchestra of Sacred Music at a Sacred Space in New York. Several of his works were broadcast by Czech and Slovak Radio and Television, and are recorded on CD. Rob Cameron on Radio praha called him "one of the Czech Republic's most important contemporary classical composers".
Filas uses a distinctly lyrical and emotional musical language with which he strives to maintain the distinct European musical traditions of some of the masters such as Verdi, Beethoven and Mahler.
Filas graduated from the Prague Conservatory in 1976 in voice and composition, and received a diploma in composition in 1981 from professors Jan Zdeněk Bartoš
Jan Zdenek Bartoš
Jan Zdeněk Bartoš was a Czech composer.- Biography :Bartoš started to play the violin as a pupil of Karel Hršel in Hradec Králové. In 1924, after he graduated from business school, Bartoš left for France. He played as a concertmaster of the Messageries Maritimes naval company in Marseille...
and Jiří Pauer
Jirí Pauer
Jiří Pauer was a Czech composer.Pauer studied first with Otakar Šín, then from 1943 to 1946 at the Prague Conservatory with Alois Hába, and finally with Pavel Bořkovec at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He later taught for many years at the Academy where his pupils included composer...
. He lives in Prague and is an Assistant Professor at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
The Academy of Performing Arts in Prague is a university level school of music, dance, drama, film, TV and multi-media studies.- Faculties :*Film and TV School - FAMU*Music Faculty - HAMU*Theatre Faculty - DAMU-Notable alumni:...
where he teaches composition.
Selected works
Orchestral- Palpito, Symphonic Drama (1981)
- Chamber Symphony No. 1 (1982)
- La feste amorose, Symphony No. 1 (1984)
- La vampa dell'amore, Symphony No. 2 (1985)
- Chamber Symphony No. 2 (1985)
- Popolosa, Symphonic Overture (1988)
- Hommage à DvořákAntonín DvorákAntonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer of late Romantic music, who employed the idioms of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. Dvořák’s own style is sometimes called "romantic-classicist synthesis". His works include symphonic, choral and chamber music, concerti, operas and many...
, Novosvětská fantazie (New World Fantasy) (1991) - Symphonie nach Mass (1994)
- L'ultimo cavaliere (Poslední kavalír; The Last Knight), Symphonic Overture (1995)
- Byla cesta (There Was a Way...) for chamber orchestra, organ and timpani (2004)
- Trebbia, Symphonic Overture (2006)
- Dokonané stvoření, Symphony No. 3 for narrator, synthesizer and orchestra (2007–2008)
Concertante
- Salamandra immortale, Double Concerto for violin, cello and string orchestra (1996)
- Ztracené iluze, Concert Romance for bass trombone and orchestra (1998)
- Don Quijotte, aneb Autoportrét (Don Quixote, or Self-portrait) for tenor trombone and orchestra (2000)
- Ora pro nobis, Concert Fantasy for English horn and orchestra (2000)
- Concerto for euphonium and orchestra (2002)
- Concerto for piccolo trumpetPiccolo trumpetThe smallest of the trumpet family is the piccolo trumpet, pitched one octave higher than the standard B trumpet. Most piccolo trumpets are built to play in either B or A, using a separate leadpipe for each key. The tubing in the B piccolo trumpet is one-half the length of that in a standard B...
and orchestra (2002) - Concerto for horn and wind orchestra (2004)
- Concerto for tuba and wind orchestra (2006)
- Copernicus, Concerto grosso for brass quintet and wind orchestra (2008)
Wind orchestra
- Slunce a déšť (Sun and Rain) (1990)
- La cadenza (1990)
- Ohnivý anděl (The Fiery Angel) (1992)
- Kulhavý osel (Der hinkende Esel), Celebration March (1993)
- Poslední slovanský tanec (The Last Slavonic Dance; Der Letzter slavische Tanz) (1995)
- Freundschafts Polka for small wind ensemble (1996)
- Con brio e con calore (1998)
Chamber music
- Sonata No. 1 for viola and piano (1978)
- Sonata for trumpet and piano (1979)
- Sonata for viola and organ (1979)
- Sonata No. 1 "Helios" for violin and piano (1983)
- Elegie "In Memoriam" for oboe and piano (1985)
- Flautina for flute and piano (1986)
- Sonata for harp (1986)
- Elegie for oboe, English horn, bassoon and piano (1987)
- Sonata "Les adieux" for clarinet and piano (1987)
- Sonata for cello and piano (1985)
- Sonata No. 2 "In memoriam" for viola and piano (1988)
- Sonata for tuba and piano (1991–1992)
- Trio for oboe, English horn and bassoon (1992)
- Contrasti, Sonata for bass clarinet and piano (1994)
- No Comment for brass quintet (1995)
- Malá slovenská rapsodia (Short Slovak Rhapsody) for clarinet and piano (1995)
- At the End of the Century, Sonata for trombone and piano (1996)
- Du liebe gute Freiheit, Quartet for oboe, tenor oboe, English horn and bassoon (1996); adaptation of the 1992 Trio for oboe, English horn and bassoon
- Rhapsody in Dark Blue, Smyčcový kvartet památce G. Gershwina (String Quartet in Memory of George GershwinGeorge GershwinGeorge Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are widely known...
) (1997) - Portrét času (Portrait of Time; Porträt der Zeit) for oboe, horn and piano (1998)
- Trio d'amour "Třpyt zaniklé říše" (Glimmer of a Fallen Empire) for violin, cello and piano (1999)
- Obětem Satana (To the Victims of Satan; Satans Opfern) for trombone quartet (1999)
- A Very Short Love Story, Romance for trumpet and piano (2002)
- Celli, dolci celli, Sonata for 10 cellos and 2 double basses (2003)
- Les adieux, Romance for violin and piano (2003)
- Omaggio a Verdi for wind quintet (2003)
- Piano Quintet for oboe, English horn, tenor oboe (or English horn), bassoon (or cello) and piano (2003)
- Appassionata, Sonata for piccolo trumpetPiccolo trumpetThe smallest of the trumpet family is the piccolo trumpet, pitched one octave higher than the standard B trumpet. Most piccolo trumpets are built to play in either B or A, using a separate leadpipe for each key. The tubing in the B piccolo trumpet is one-half the length of that in a standard B...
and organ (2004) - Adagio for piccolo trumpet and piano or organ (2004)
- A Kiss from the Mother, Trio for violin, viola and cello (2004)
- Romance for piccolo trumpet and organ (2005)
- De profundis, Sonata for trombone and organ (2006)
- Panta rei, Trio-Sonata for trumpet, trombone and piano (2007)
- Sonata No. 2 "Mondfinsternis" for violin and piano (2007)
- Úsměvy a slzy (Smiles and Tears), Trio-Sonata for 2 clarinets and piano (2007)
- Notturno for bassoon and piano (2008)
- Elephant Song for bass trombone and piano (2009)
Keyboard
- Amorosa, Sonata for piano (1981)
- Fresca, Sonata for organ (1989)
Vocal
- Regina coeli, Song for children's voice, flute and organ (2004)
Choral
- La canzone dell'amore - vocal drama for soprano, baritone, chorus, organ and orchestra (1982); words by PetrarchPetrarchFrancesco Petrarca , known in English as Petrarch, was an Italian scholar, poet and one of the earliest humanists. Petrarch is often called the "Father of Humanism"...
and Francesco Maria PiaveFrancesco Maria PiaveFrancesco Maria Piave was an Italian opera librettist who was born in Murano in the lagoon of Venice, during the brief Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy. His career spanned over twenty years working with many of the significant composers of his day... - Poslední sen starého dubu (The Old Oak Tree's Last Dream), Cantata after the fairy tale by Hans Christian AndersenHans Christian AndersenHans Christian Andersen was a Danish author, fairy tale writer, and poet noted for his children's stories. These include "The Steadfast Tin Soldier," "The Snow Queen," "The Little Mermaid," "Thumbelina," "The Little Match Girl," and "The Ugly Duckling."...
for children's chorus and orchestra (1983); words by the composer - Jarný zpev (Spring Song), Cantata for mixed chorus and piano (1984); poem by Milan RúfusMilan RúfusMilan Rúfus was a Slovak poet, essayist, translator, children's writer and academic.He was born in Závažná Poruba, in the Zilina region. As a student at the Faculty of Arts at Comenius University in Bratislava he studied Slovak language and literature, and history...
- Lauretti – Altre canzone amorose, Cantata for chamber chorus, 2 violins, cello and piano (1985); words by PetrarchPetrarchFrancesco Petrarca , known in English as Petrarch, was an Italian scholar, poet and one of the earliest humanists. Petrarch is often called the "Father of Humanism"...
- Krvavé Te Deum "Obětem Gulagu" (The Bloody Te Deum) for soprano, chorus, synthesizer, tape and orchestra (1991)
- La canzone dell'ultimo addio, Chamber Cantata (1992); words by PetrarchPetrarchFrancesco Petrarca , known in English as Petrarch, was an Italian scholar, poet and one of the earliest humanists. Petrarch is often called the "Father of Humanism"...
- La buona morte for chamber chorus a cappella (1995); words by Petrarch
- Requiem Oratio spei for soprano, tenor, baritone, chorus and orchestra (2002)
- Veni, Sancte Spitirus for chorus a cappella (2005)
- Hosanna for chorus and chamber chorus (2005)