Anton Steinecker
ANTON STEINECKER (1971, Bratislava) studied privately composition with Tadeáš Salva, later on continued at Academy of Music and Performing Arts (VŠMU) with Jozef Sixta and Dušan Martinček. During his studies attended schollarship at Academy of Arts in Prague with Svatopluk Havelka and Juraj Filas. Continued as Artist Diploma student at Jerusalem Rubin Academy of Music and Dance with Marek Kopytman. Since 1999 he is a postgraduate student at VŠMU with Dušan Martinček and Vladimír Bokes and simultaneously student at The Jerusalem Rubin Academy of Music and Dance (Mark Kopytman). Between 2002 – 2004 he had been postgraduate student at Hochschule des Saarlandes für Musik und Theater in Saarbrücken (Theo Brandmüller). Anton Steinecker participated several international courses – International summer program CASMI 2001 in Prague, New Music Days in Ostrava 2001, 2003 (Jean-Yves Bosseur, Alvin Lucier, Petr Kotík, Christian Wolff, Tristan Murail), Masters de Pontlevoy, France (Mark Kopytman), Darmstadt Sumer Courses 2004 (Brian Ferneyhough, Chaya Czernowin, Enno Poppe, Toshio Hosokawa, Tadeusz Wieleczky), Dni interpretačnej praxe 2003, 2004, HFM Saar (Theo Brandmüller, Toshio Hosokawa). His composition ”Jaj, Bože môj!” (Oh, my God!) for mixed choir on a folk poetry, obtained a third prize in the choral category at the Year of Slovak Music Composer´s Competition and SOZA prize for most succesfull young author´s composition (String Trio, 2003). Anton Steinecker premiered his works on many international festivals (Czech Republic, Hungary, Polland, Russia, France, Israel, Germany, Austria, USA).
Works (selection): Ground for oboe and viola (1993), ”Jaj, Bože môj!” for mixed choir (1994), Piano Trio (1994), Invention for Viola (1994 – 1995), String Quartet (1996 – 1997), Notturno for horn (1997), Wind Quintet (2000), String quartet No. 2 – Choral variations in memoriam Ľudovít Rajter (2000).