Sylvie Bodorová

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Sylvie Bodorová (born 1954) is a Czech composer. She grew up in Slovakia and went on to study music at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno and, as a post-graduate, later at the Music Academy in Prague. She continued her studies in Gdansk 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 CCM Cincinnati, Ohio (Composer in Residence 1994-95, 1995-96). Her works have, since the early 80s, been performed on every continent, including 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. Sylvie Bodorová was member of Quattro (a group of prestigious Czech composers) – Otmar Mácha (1922 – 2006), Luboš Fišer (1935 – 1999) and Zdeněk Lukáš (1928 – 2007). She is also involved in a project of restoration of Gustav Mahler's birthplace 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), and by gypsy and Eastern European rhythms, t

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Spectrum 3 - 25 Contemporary Works for Solo Piano from Around the Golbe

Bodorova: Juda Maccabeus

Bodorova: JA RA LAJ

a paganini

Quattro plays Quattro

Fiala/ Bodorová/ Eben Piano Trios

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Bodorová: Orchestral Work

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Echoes from Long Ago

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Contemporary Czech Music - String Quartets IV.

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Carmina lucemburgiana

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The Rythm of the Masters

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Bodorová / Stevenson: String Quartets

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