On Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janáček_Philharmonic_Orchestra |
Alternative Spellings | Czech Symphony Orchestra, Czech Radio Orchestra |
Creation | 1954 |
Participants |
Otakar Pařík
- Conductor
from 1954
to 1955
Jiří Waldhans - Conductor from 1955 to 1962 Václav Jiráček - Conductor from 1962 to 1966 Josef Daniel - Conductor from 1966 to 1968 Otakar Trhlík - Conductor from 1968 to 1987 Tomáš Koutník - Conductor from 1987 to 1990 Dennis Burkh - Conductor Leoš Svárovský - Conductor from 1991 to 1993 Christian Arming - Conductor from 1996 to 2002 Petr Vronský - Conductor from 2002 to 2004 Theodore Kuchar - Conductor from 2005 to 2012 Heiko Mathias Förster - Conductor from 2014 to 2019 Vassily Sinaisky - Conductor from 2020 |
City | Ostrava, Czechia |
Country | Czech Republic |
The roots of the orchestra date back to 1929, with the establishment of a radio orchestra in Ostrava. In 1954, the orchestra was formally established under the name of the Ostrava Symphony Orchestra, with Otakar Pařík as its first chief conductor under that name, and gave its first concert under that name on 3 May 1954. In 1962, the orchestra changed its name to the Státní filharmonie Ostrava (Ostrava State Philharmonic Orchestra), then with Václav Jiráček as chief conductor. In 1971, the orchestra changed its name to its current form, the Janáčkova filharmonie Ostrava (Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava). In the 1990s, the orchestra developed a new emphasis on performance of contemporary music, including renditions of compositions by composers such as Earle Brown, John Cage, Maria de Alvear, Morton Feldman, Petr Kotik, Alvin Lucier, Pauline Oliveros, Somei Satoh, Martin Smolka, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Toru Takemitsu, Edgard Varese, and Christian Wolff. wikipedia