Peter Machajdík (born 1 June 1961) is a contemporary Slovak composer, sound and visual artist. He was born and grew up in

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. In the 1990s, he took part in seminars with

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, and others. In 1992, he was the guest of the

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. Machajdik has composed music in nearly all genres, including orchestra, band, chorus, chamber music, works for solo instrument, works for piano and organ, as well as liturgical works and hymns. Moreover, he has created a number of graphic notations, including the Dialogue with... series which is based on letters received from composer colleagues with additional visual elements added. While in this series the written content of the letters may appear as audible text, other graphic notations are purely visual (like Wold). Others again contain notation or text describing elements to be performed (like Donauklang). His music is published primarily by Musica Slovaca, Alea Publishing, Zimbel Press, and Edition Hudba. Peter Machajdík's music often asks questions about the society in which we live. It calls for humanity and responsibility that human beings should have to each other and to the world. Machajdík's works, often considered as the counterpoint to the violence, intolerance, racism and greed of our age, are marked by a keen sensitivity to instrumental colour and texture. Machajdik's orchestral works have been premiered by the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra, State Philharmonic Orchestra of Košice, Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Pomeranian Philharmonic, Lugansk Symphony Orchestra,

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, Slovak Chamber Orchestra, Camerata Europea,

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, Ensemble Metamorphosis, Cluster Ensemble, and many others. He has also worked with

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, cimbalom virtuoso Enikö Ginzery, vocalist & drummer David Moss, conductors

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, Miran Vaupotić, Florian Ludwig,

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, Przemysław Zych, clarinetists Martin Adámek and Guido Arbonelli, and violist Sasha Mirković. Film credits include Machajdik's scores for 4 Schüler gegen Stalin (2005), Wild Slovakia (2015) and Miloš and the Lynxes (2010). Machajdik has worked with choreographers and dancers such as Dorothea Rust, Studio tanca, Petra Fornayova, Tina Mantel, Lucia Kašiarová, and others. A

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, Machajdík lives in

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, Germany, and in a little Slovak town situated in a valley, surrounded by lofty hills. He is currently Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Arts in

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Selected works

* ''Natural Harbors'' for violin, viola, cello, double bass and piano (2022) 15 minutes * ''The Lost Blue - Still Connecting'' for flute, percussion (vib, crotales) and piano (2022) 14 minutes * ''Quiet Differences'' for two guitars (2022) 7 minutes * ''Converging Understandings'' for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns (2022) 11 minutes * ''Kryha'' for two accordions (2021) * ''Planting'' for cimbalom (2021) * ''Da perenne gaudium'' for organ (2021) * ''Passing Through Nothing'' for string quartet (2020) 10 minutes * ''On Temperance'' for piano (2020) * ''The Vanishing'' for 2 accordions and organ (2020) 12 minutes * ''Sinaia Echoes'' for flute, percussion (vib, gong) and piano (2020) 15 minutes * ''More Questions Than Answers'' for guitar (2020) 8 minutes * ''Invisible Beings'' for string orchestra (2019) * ''In der Essenz'' for flute, percussion (vib, trgl) and piano (2019) 5 minutes * ''The Howling Glaciers'' for piano and accordion (2019) * ''Gegen.Stand'' for accordion and orchestra (2019) 20 minutes * ''Sacrifices'' for piano (2019) * ''Déjà vu'' (Concertino for harpsichord and string orchestra) 999, rev. 2019* ''Mornings'' for piano (2019) * ''Terauchi'' for string quartet and audio-playback (2018) 10 minutes * ''It's Not the Mist'' for two pianos (2018) * ''Zem'' for organ (2018) * ''1-9-1-8'' for violin and piano (2018) * ''Signes de la mémoire'' for clarinet, violin, cello and piano (2017) approx. 8 minutes * ''Wold'' pen instrumentation and duration assumed(2017) * ''Folium'' for piano and organ (2017) 10 minutes * Guitar quintet ''The Son'', for guitar and string quartet (2017) approx. 10 minutes * ''In Embrace'' for double bass and piano (2017) approx. 11 minutes * ''Mit den Augen eines Falken'' for mandolin and guitar (2017) approx. 11 minutes * ''Behind the Waves'' for viola and string orchestra (2016) approx. 12 minutes * ''Portus pacis'' for organ (2016) 9 minutes * ''Abandoned Gates'' for piano and string quartet (2016) 13 minutes * ''Seas and Deserts'' for string quartet and audio-playback (2015) 12 minutes * ''Ich war in dir'' for soprano and cello (2015) * ''Danube Afterpoint'' for piccolo, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, two pianos and string quartet (2015) 15 minutes * ''Effugium'' for accordion and audio-playback (2015) 8 minutes * ''Senahh'' for flute and piano (2015) * ''Green'' for accordion (2015) * ''Spomaleniny'' for violin and piano (2014) * ''Munk'' for viola and piano (2013) * ''Silent Wanderings'' for guitar (2012) 5 minutes * ''Wie der Wind in den Dünen'' for string orchestra (2011) * ''The Immanent Velvet'' for piano (2011) * ''Kyrie'' for mixed choir a cappella (SATB) (2011) * ''Pictures of a Changing Sensibility'' for violin and piano (2011) * ''Linnas'' for piano (2011) * ''Domine'' for mixed choir (SATB) and tubular bells (2011) * ''Flower full of Gardens'' for harp or harpsichord (2010) * ''San José'' for large orchestra (2010) * ''Zem zeme'' for clarinet quartet (2009) * ''Water Forgives'' for cimbalom (2009) * ''Concerto for 2 bayans and orchestra'', dedicated to all of those who helped to remove „the iron curtain“ and the communistic regimes in the central part of Europe in the 1989 (2008) * ''On the Seven Colours of Light'' for organ (2007) * ''Iese for flute solo'' (2007) approx. 5 minutes * ''To the Rainbow So Close Again'' for string quartet (2004) * ''Nell'autunno del suo abbraccio insonne'' for harp (2004) * ''Obscured Temptations'' for piano (2003) * ''Si diligamus invicem'' for mixed choir a cappella (SATB) (2002) * ''Namah'' for string orchestra (2000) * ''Lasea'' for string orchestra (2000) * ''Kirin'' for oboe solo (1999/2001) * ''Five Mirrors'' for accordion (1997) * ''Wrieskalotkipaoxq'' for saxophone quartet (1996) * ''Intime Musik'' pen instrumentation and duration assumed(1994)

Music for theatre

* ''Escaped Alone'' usic for the production of Caryl Churchill's play ''Escaped Alone">Caryl_Churchill.html" ;"title="usic for the production of Caryl Churchill">usic for the production of Caryl Churchill's play ''Escaped Alone'' under Eduard Kudláč's direction at the Slovak National Theatre] (2021) * ''Niekto príde" (Nokon kjem til å komme)'' [music for the production of Jon Fosse's play ''Nokon kjem til å komme'' under Eduard Kudláč's direction at the Žilina Theatre] (2021) * ''Bezzubata'' usic for the production of Miklos Forgacs's play ''Bezzubata'' under Eduard Kudláč's direction at the Žilina Theatre(2019)

Sound Art and Graphic Notation

* ''Donauklang'' pen instrumentation and duration assumed(1989) * ''Dialogue with Stockhausen'' pen instrumentation and duration assumed 984* ''Dialogue with Malcom Goldstein'' pen instrumentation and duration assumed 984

Discography

* 1995: THE ReR QUARTERLY © QUARTERLY, ReR Volume 4 No 1 CD - ReR 0401 Recommended Records * 2003: NAMASTE SUITE (Guido Arbonelli - clarinets) © Mnemes HCD 102 * 2008: NUOVE MUSICE PER TROMBA 6 (Ivano Ascari - trumpet) © AZ 5005 * 2008: THE HEALING HEATING (R(A)DIO(CUSTICA) SELECTED 2008) © Czech Radio * 2008: NAMAH feat.

, David Moss © musica slovaca SF 00542131 * 2009: MINIMAL HARP (

- harp). Works by

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, Peter Machajdík, Lou Harrison, Nicola Campogrande) © DECCA / Universal 476 317 * 2011: INSIDE THE TREE (Machajdík's music for cello, harp and electronics) © Amadeus Arte Catalogue No. AA11003 * 2012: CZECHOSLOVAK CHAMBER DUO (Dvořák / Machajdík / Schneider-Trnavský) Czech Radio, Catalogue No. #CR0591-2 * 2012: A MARVELOUS LOVE - New Music for Organ (Carson Cooman plays compositions by Peter Machajdík, Patricia Van Ness, Jim Dalton, Tim Rozema, Al Benner, Thomas Åberg, and Harold Stover), Albany Records, Catalogue No. TROY1357 * 2012: THE IMMANENT VELVET (Machajdík's chamber music for piano, guitar, cello, harp and strings), Azyl Records, Catalogue No. R266-0024-2-331 * 2015: ELEKTRICKÁ GITARA (Machajdík's 12-minute composition LET for electric guitar, and works by composers such as

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, Daniel Matej, Boško Milaković, Juraj Vajó, Pavol Bizoň, Ivan Buffa), Hevhetia, Catalogue No. HV 0070-2-331 * 2018: FRIENDS IN COMMON TIME (Works by Peter Machajdík, Tor Brevik, Francis Kayali, Adrienne Albert, Peter Kutt, Andre Caplet, Kevin W. Walker, Alexander Timofeev) Catalogue No. © Copyright - Rebecca Jeffreys (700261465210) * 2018: BIRDS (Finnish harpsichordist Elina Mustonen plays works by Peter Machajdík,

François Couperin François Couperin (; 10 November 1668 – 11 September 1733) was a French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist. He was known as ''Couperin le Grand'' ("Couperin the Great") to distinguish him from other members of the musically talented ...

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, William Byrd, Olli Mustonen) © Fuga 9447, EAN: 6419369094478 * 2019: BOWEN-REGER-MACHAJDIK-BRAHMS (Ivan Palovič - viola and Jordana Palovičová - piano). Works by Peter Machajdík,

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References

External links

Music Centre Slovakia
(English)
DAADJan Levoslav Bella Preis 2006Jon Anderson & Peter Machajdik "live"The Healing Heating

Bibliography

* Torsten Möller, Kunsu Shim, Gerhard Stäbler: ''SoundVisions'' (2005) - * Zuzana Martináková: ''Slovak Composers after 1900'' (2002) - * Július Fujak: ''Musical Correla(c)tivity'' (2005) - * Michal Murin: ''Avalanches 1990-95'' (2002) - * Marián Jurík, Peter Zagar: ''100 slovenských skladateľov'' (1998) - * Slovenská hudba ''Slovenská hudba včera a dnes'' (1997) - * Július Fujak & kol. ''Slovenské hudobné alternatívy'' (2006) - {{DEFAULTSORT:Machajdik, Peter 20th-century classical composers 1961 births Musicians from Bratislava Living people Slovak film score composers 21st-century classical composers Composers for pipe organ Male classical composers Slovak composers Male composers 20th-century male musicians 21st-century male musicians Male film score composers Musicians from Berlin Slovak male musicians