Miroslav Srnka

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Miroslav Srnka was born in Prague in 1975. He studied musicology at the Charles University in Prague with Jarmila Gabrielová (1993–99) and composition at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts with Milan Slavický (1998–2003). Study trips took him to the Humboldt University in Berlin 1995-96 and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris in 2001. He has participated in exchange programmes and composition courses with Ivan Fedele in 2002, Philippe Manoury in 2004 and others. He received the Gideon Klein Award in 2001 as well as the Leoš Janácek Anniversary Prize in 2004, Ernst von Siemens Composers’ Prize in 2009 and Wilfried-Steinbrenner-Stiftung Prize in 2009. In 2005 his short opera “Wall” after Jonathan Safran Foer was premiered at the Berlin State Opera. He was “Composer for Heidelberg” at the Theater und Philharmonisches Orchester Heidelberg in 2006-07. In 2011, his chamber opera Make No Noise was premiered at the Munich Opera Festival and his children's "comics" Jakub Flügelbunt in Semperoper Dresden. In 2016, the dual opera South Pole was premiered at Bavarian State Opera in Munich, with Rolando Villazón as Scott, Thomas Hampson as Amundsen, conducted by Kirill Petrenko and staged by Hans Neuenfels. South Pole was nominated for the International Opera Award, named as one of the three best new operas of the year by the German magazine Opernwelt and enjoyed a new production in Darmstadt in 2017. The CD Chamber Music recorded by Quatuor Diotima was

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Miroslav Srnka: Chamber Music

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Mystery Variations on Giuseppe Colombi's Chiacona

Chamber Music

3 Créations

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His Voice SAMPLER 2

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His Voice SAMPLER-2

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A selection of fine instrumental pieces by a number of Czech composers active at the beginning of the 21st century [Czech Music Information Centre, 2014]

Chamber Music (Quatuor Diotima)

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Sampler 2

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Mladá Krev - Young Blood

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Contempuls 2008-2010

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