CURRICULUM VITAE - Jan Jirásek

Musical works internationally performed at the following festivals:

“Synthese 90” Festival in Bourges; “Elektronmusik Festival” Stockholm; “ler Colloque International des jeunes Compositeurs de Musique Electro-accoustique 1991”, UNESCO in Paris; Ars Electronica; Prague Spring Festival; Schleswig - Holstein Festival; “Czechoslovak Night” Munich 1990; Munich Bienale.

Also works performed in concert halls in the following cities:

Münster, Vienna, Regensburg, Berlin, Warsaw, New York, Boston, Washington D.C., Nürnberg, San Francisco...

Commissions for compositions from well-known institutions and performers:

Kulturkreis Gasteig e.V. commissioned “Bread and Circuses” for six percussionists for the Munich Biennale 1992.

Kulturkreis Gasteig e.V. commissioned recomposition of the World War II destroyed composition of Carl Orff (“St. Luke Passion” according to the manuscript of J.S.Bach).

Brandenburg Radio commissioned woodwind quintet

Theoretical work in the field of electro - acoustic music

- Changes in the Semantic Relationship among Basic Musical Parameters and their Perspectives in Electroacoustic Music (Opus musicum, Brno 1988)

- Music and Ecology

Invited to international radio and television discussions and interviews:

Hessen Radio, Bavarian Radio, Czech Radio Prague, Radio Free Europe, Czech Television Prague, Spanish Television Madrid, Ars Electronica Linz (four times), UNESCO Paris, etc.

Won the Czech Musical Foundation Award for the composition “Labyrinth” (for flute, voice and electronics )

Premiere of the “Missa propria” at the Prague Spring Festival (Spanish Hall, Prague Castle )

Composer-In-Residence, 5 colleges/universities in the USA (Lehigh University, Moravian College, Muhlenberg College, Lafayette College, State University of New York )

Theatrical performance of “Don Quijote” (dir. J.Krofta) with music by Jirásek premiered in Adelaide ( Australia )

Theatrical performance of “Coco-Kaba” (dir. J.Krofta ) with music by Jirásek premiered in Vancouver, WA

The CD “Renaissance of Humanity” released by BMG Classics with music by Jan Jirásek, Arvo Pärt and Hildegard von Bingen

The CD “Renaissance of Humanity” (Jirásek, Pärt, von Bingen) was presented by BMG Classics as “CD of the Month” in Germany

Premiere of the “St. Luke Passion” (recomposition of a piece according to the manuscript of J.S.Bach and concept of Carl Orff) in Gasteig Munich, by Munich Philharmonic on February 25, 1996 and recorded by Bavarian Radio, Munich (Commissioned by the Kulturkreis Gasteig e. V., Munich)

Wrote music for the film “An Ambiguous Report About the End of the World” (dir. Juraj Jakubisko)

Won Fulbright Fellowship and spent the academic year 1996-97 as a visiting professor of composition in USA (Hartt School of Music, University of Colorado at Boulder)

Awarded the prestigious film music prize “The Czech Lion” for movie “An Ambiguous Report About the End of the World” (dir. Juraj Jakubisko)

The CD “Lucie Bila at the Prague Spring Festival” with Jirásek‘s orchestral and choral music, produced by Monitor/EMI

Two performances of the organ piece “Ad unum”, by Vera Hermanová at the Prague Spring Festival (at the Prague Castle )

Taught at the International Music Academy Prague-Vienna-Budapest organized by Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Vienna

Premiere of the movie “Melancholic Chicken” (dir. Jaroslav Brabec) with Jirásek’s music in Prague

Premiere of the movie “Melancholic Chicken” (dir. Jaroslav Brabec) with Jirásek’s music in Prague

The CD “St. Luke Passion” (Bach/Orff/Jirásek) released worldwide by Danish company Classico

United States premiere of “St. Luke Passion” in Ted Man Hall, Minneapolis, USA (Plymouth Music Series, conductor: Philip Brunelle)

Premiere of musical for children “PINOKIO” with Jirásek’s music, in Prague (this performance is a combination of musical, opera, theatre and circus.)

Invited to teach at the International Music Academy Prague-Vienna-Budapest organized by Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Vienna

Signed contract with the publishing house Bärenreiter, Germany.

All pieces by Jirásek will be published by Bärenreiter except those published by Schott Musik Int. Mainz, Germany.

Awarded the prestigious film music prize “The Czech Lion” for the movie “Wild Flowers” (dir. F.A.Brabec)