Šimon Voseček

Šimon Voseček, composer

Šimon Voseček (born April 13, 1978 in Prague ) is an Austrian composer of Czech origin.

Life

Composition studies with Otomar Kvěch at the Prague Conservatory , diploma in 2002, then in Vienna with Dietmar Schermann , Erich Urbanner and Chaya Czernowin at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna , diploma in 2008 with distinction. Co-founder of Platypus Ensemble & New Music Group. Voseček is one of the prominent composers of the younger generation in Austria. His second opera, Biedermann und die Brandstifter , was particularly well received by the public (UA Vienna 2013, Italian EA Bozen / Bolzano 2014, English EA London 2015, German EA 2017 in the Bremerhaven City Theater ). He wrote his third opera Hybris based on a libretto by Kristine Tornquist on behalf of the sirene opera theater (UA Vienna 2016). From 2008 to 2014 Voseček was a board member of the International Society for New Music (IGNM).

Soudničky (German Cheerful District Court ), opera in three acts based on a libretto by Jan Panenka (1999/2008)
Biedermann und die Brandstifter , opera in two acts based on the play of the same name by Max Frisch , libretto: Šimon Voseček, for 8 voices and chamber ensemble (2005–2007). World premiere in 2013 by the Neue Oper Wien in the Semperdepot Vienna, director: Béatrice Lachaussée , musical director: Walter Kobéra . New production by the Independent Opera at Sadler's Wells in London in English translation by David Pountney , director: Max Hoehn, musical direction: Timothy Redmond. Another new production in the German original version in February 2017 in the Stadttheater Bremerhaven , director: Christian von Götz, musical director: Thomas Kolb.
Hybris , opera in two acts based on a libretto by Kristine Tornquist (2015/2016). First performed in 2016 at the Vienna Chamber Opera in a production of the sirene opera theater . Direction: Kristine Tornquist, musical direction: François-Pierre Descamps
In the acid bath , for string quartet (2008)
Migraine , for orchestra (2011), world premiere in Curitiba ( Brazil )
Mice for ensemble and video (2012), world premiere in Kiev ( Ukraine )
Sperm for sopranino recorder and piccolo (2010)
Latte or Anita Ekberg's Breast for Ensemble (2011)
Hallucinations for Ensemble (2015), music for the silent film Mechanical Principles by Ralph Steiner from 1930
further chamber music and symphonic works

Since 2012: Cooperation with the Viennese performance group schallundrauch agency as composer, performer and theater pedagogue. Productions: Da Saund of Music (2012), Da Saund of Music - HIDDEN TRACKS (2013), In the wrong film (2014), Da Saund of Music - BONUS TRACK (2015).