Sylvie Bodorová

Sylvie Bodorová

Sylvie Bodorová (born 31 December 1954, České Budějovice) is a Czech composer.

Biography

Bodorová studied composition at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno and as a post-graduate later on at the Music Academy in Prague. She continued her studies in Gdańsk and Siena (with Professor Franco Donatoni at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana) and from 1987 she regularly attended Professor Ton de Leeuw's composition courses in Amsterdam. She taught at the Janáček Academy in Brno and, in the 90s, at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, where she was visiting professor for the 1994 and 1995 school years. In 1993 she made her first visit to the United States for a week-long residency in the School of Fine Arts at Miami University (Ohio). The music library at the University of Cincinnati houses several published scores, as well as copies of manuscript scores of her works.

Her works have since the early 80s been performed in all the continents, even in the Antarctic where her "Homage to Columbus" for guitar was heard in 1997. She has received several competition prizes (Mannheim, Czech Radio Prague) and many prestigious commissions from the Warwick Festival in the 90th Megiddo - Piano Trio - 2001, for the same festival -Terezin Ghetto Requiem - Škampa Quartet - 1998, "Ama me" for baritone and piano - 1999 and Vertumnus - Brass Quintet in 2005.

She wrote also compositions for Buenos Aires – Concierto de Estío' for Guitar and Orchestra – 1999 and for Bochum in Germany – Saturnalia for Orchestra – 1999. After the great success of Terezín Ghetto Requiem the Prague Spring International Music Festival commissioned oratorio Juda Maccabeus for the performance in St. Vitus Cathedral (with Gabriela Beňačková, Aleš Briscein, Ivan Kusnjer and the Prague Philharmonic Choir) in May 2002 and then in Litomyšl International Festival in June 2002. Concerto dei fiori for Violin and Strings was premiered at Prague Spring Festival 1997, then performed in the United States in 1998 and in PONTES Festival Prague.

Terezin Ghetto Requiem for Baritone and String Quartet was performed at Warwick and Leamington Festival in July 1998, Wigmore Hall in London in October 1998, again in Warwick in July 1999, other festivals in UK, in Berlin (November 1999), in Halle (Saale), Terezín, at the Prague Spring Festival 2000, Coventry and Huddersfield (November 2000). In 2003 Bodorová finished the commission of Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival – composition for Harp and Strings Mysterium druidum. She composed Rotationes for clarinet, violin, viola and cello for the same festival in 2012.

She finished the commission for Camerata Bern (Bern Concerto, Silberwolke) – Concerto for Violin, Viola and Strings, which has been performed in Bern and Germany in August in September 2005. She wrote piano concerto Come d'accordo for Prague Philharmonia and pianist Martin Kasík, premiered in February 2006, Song Cycle Slovak Songs for Štefan Margita and Gabriela Beňačková – the cycle was recorded in 2006 – and Amor tenet omnia – cycle of choruses on the texts from Carmina Burana premiered in Luxembourg and France in August 2007.

The oratorio Moses was commissioned by the International Litomyšl Smetana Festival and premiered in 2008. In 2009 she wrote Carmina lucemburgiana for strings. It was commissioned by the Government of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and its embassy in Prague. In May 2012 Bodorová finished Lingua angelorum – Song cycle for baritone and large symphony orchestra inspired by Rudolf the Second. The composition was commissioned by and was dedicated to Thomas Hampson. She wrote the orchestral version of Dvořák's Gypsy Melodies, Op. 55, for Thomas Hampson and Wiener Virtuosen, which was premiered in Musikverein Wien in February 2013.

Bodorová was member of Quattro (Group of prestigious Czech composers) – Otmar Mácha (1922–2006), Luboš Fišer (1935–1999) and Zdeněk Lukáš (1928–2007), she is involved in the project of Gustav Mahler birthplace restoration in Kaliště near Humpolec in the Czech Republic, she has also composed and arranged many compositions for children. Her attention is often drawn by Johann Sebastian Bach's music (quotation of his choral "Schmücke dich o liebe Seele" at the end of Concerto dei fiori and transcriptions of Preludium C moll from Wohl Temperiertes Klavier, Toccata D minor), by Gypsy and East European Rhythms (ancestors from Hungary).

List of compositions

Operas

Orchestral and concerto works

Page of the autograph score from the oratorio Juda Maccabeus by Bodorová

Chamber music

Strings:

Solo:

Duets:

Trios:

Quartets and Quintets:

More than five performers:

Winds:

Solo:

Duets:

More performers:

Vocal and vocal-instrumental works

Choir works

Guitar works

Harp, piano, organ

Music for children

Arrangements or orchestrations of another composers

commissioned by Thomas Hampson with Wiener Virtuosi

Selected discography

References

  1. ↑ Sbornik slovenských národnich piesni, povestí, prísloví Matica slovenská - 1870 "Sadaj slnko, sadaj, za ker malinový, Povedz že mu, povedz, že sa ja dobre mám' Povedz dobrý večer môjmu šuhajovi; Že sa každý večer slzami umývam, Slzami umývam, ručníkom utieram; Povedz že mu, povedz, že sa ja dobre mám."

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