Event date
16 / 07 / 2025 - Wednesday 20:30
Event venue
Event type
Nová spojení
New Connections: Fama Q
Enthusiasts for chamber and modern music present works by domestic and international contemporaries, including the world premiere of a work by Martin Kux. All this in conjunction with a distinctive architecture.
Artists
Fama Q
David Danel – violin
Roman Hranička – violin
Ondřej Martinovský – viola
Balázs Adorján – cello
Program
Matin Kux: Sulle rovine del tempo (On the Ruins of Time) THE WORLD PREMIERE OF A SONG FROM 2022
Bernard Short: Disquietude (2018)
Martin Burlas: Panadol (2006)
Philip Glass: Company – String Quartet No. 2 (1984)
George Friedrich Haas: String Quartet No. 5 (2003)
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Fama Q
The Fama Q String Quartet was formed in 2005 in Prague by members of leading Czech orchestras who share a passion for chamber music. It focuses mainly on music by Czech and international composers of the 20th and 21st centuries, and premieres many works. Fama Q repeatedly performs at domestic and international festivals, such as Prague Spring, Contempuls, Janáček May, Music Olomouc, Forfest Kroměříž, Eternal Hope Prague, Smetana Days Pilsen, Les Musicales de Quiberon in France, Festival de Música de la Mancha in Spain, Cluj Modern in Romania and Israel Festival Jerusalem. The quartet has also performed in Italy, Japan, Germany, Turkey and the USA. It has also performed in Terezín and in Prague halls as part of the international project Performing the Jewish Archive. Fama Q collaborates with a number of artists and ensembles, and conducts contemporary music performance seminars at schools and universities in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania and Turkey. He is also active in the field of recording new music.
Portál – Visitor Centre, Port 1560
Portál – The Visitor Centre is the gateway to the Port 1560 area. Where beer was once cooled in three bulky tanks and then shipped to various pubs near and far, today the design is dominated by an anchorless metal staircase, concrete, corten, glass and a beautiful open-roofed roof. It’s worth lingering here a little longer than you’d […]
