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CLOSING CONCERT - Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marián LEJAVA, Milan PAĽA (SK)

Friday 13. 11. 2026 at 7 pm

Large Concert Studio of Slovak Radio

Mýtna 1, Bratislava

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Performers:

The Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra [profile of ensemble] (SK)

was established in 1929 as the first professional symphony orchestra in Slovakia. The Czech conductor František Dyk was then appointed to be the official leader of the Orchestra. Over the years the Orchestra was led by many outstanding personalities as chief conductors or main conductors including K. Schimpl, F. Babušek, K. Baranović, Ľ. Rajter, R. Týnský, L. Slovák, B. Režucha, O. Lenárd, R. Stankovský, Ch. Olivieri Munroe and O. Dohnányi. The Orchestra is currently led by chief conductor Mario Košik. Since January 2015 Adrian Kokoš has cooperated with the Orchestra as the second conductor. In the past the ensemble has also successfully recorded for publishers such as Opus, Supraphon, Naxos, Marco Polo, Arte Nova and others. The Orchestra premiered many works of Slovak as well as foreign composers and often engages in recording music for movies. SOSR performs with renowned guest conductors such as Ch. Mackerras, N. Järvi, K. Trevor, A. Paris, F. Haider, A. Mogrelia, D. Porcelijn, V. Spivakov, P. Altrichter, Y. Kamdzhalov and others. Many excellent soloists from Slovakia and abroad have already performed with the Orchestra including Anna Netrebko, Yusif Eyvazov, Boris Berezovskij, Edita Gruberová, Adriana Kučerová, Štefan Kocán, Pavol Bršlík, Daniel Ottensamer, Dana Ciocarlie, Alena Baeva, Andrey Yaroshinsky, Jiří Bárta, Dalibor Karvay and others. The Orchestra regularly performs at music festivals in Slovakia such as the Bratislava Music Festival, New Slovak Music Festival, Melos-Ethos, Allegretto Žilina or Radio_Head Awards Festival. SOSR is also welcome at concert stages abroad and appeared as a guest for instance in Austria, Germany, Hungary, Spain or Japan. It performed several times at the prestigious Viennese Musikverein, in the Philharmonie in Essen, Cologne, Klagenfurt and others. In the years 2016 and 2017 SOSR participated in opera productions of the operas Love Drink and Rigoletto at the St. Margarethen Opera Festival staged in the St. Margarethen quarry. The Orchestra cooperated also in several “cross-over” projects such as the Korben Dallas Symphony. One of the important activities of SOSR includes for instance also the premiere recording of the opera by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari: The Jewels of the Madonna (I gioielli della Madonna). The Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra regularly cooperates with Slovak publishers in recording and presentation of works by Slovak composers mainly.

www.sosr.rtvs.sk
Marián Lejava[personal profile] – conductor (SK)
Milan Paľa[personal profile] – violin (SK)

Works:

Hans Krása

(1899-1944)
- Overture for Chamber Orchestra SLOVAK PREMIERE
Jana Kmiťová
[personal profile]
(1976)
- TexTy V. WORLD PREMIERE
Pascal Dusapin

(1955)
- Exeo (Solo No. 5 for orchestra)* SLOVAK PREMIERE
Valentin Bibik

(1940-2003)
- Dedication SLOVAK PREMIERE
Peter Kolman
[personal profile]
(1937)
- Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (2003 version) WORLD PREMIERE

Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

The closing concert of the Melos-Ethos festival was organised in collaboration with the French association Forum Voix Étouffées, whose mission is to showcase the music of composers who suffered under the totalitarian regimes of the 20th and 21st centuries. The concert will therefore open with the Overture for Small Orchestra by the Czech composer of German-Jewish origin, Hans Krása, who perished in Auschwitz. The fate of an emigrant from the Eastern Bloc also befell the Ukrainian composer Valentin Bibik, whose work will be represented by the meditative piece *Dedication* for string orchestra and organ, as well as our own Peter Kolman. A revised version of his Violin Concerto will receive its world premiere, performed by the phenomenal Milan Paľa. Audiences can also look forward to a new orchestral work by the outstanding Slovak composer Jana Kmiťová, *TexTy V*, and a sombre yet exceptionally focused orchestral essay by the living legend of French music, Pascal Dusapin.

Tickets are available in advance via the Ticketportal network: https://www.ticketportal.sk/event/Melos-Etos-2026

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Melos-Ethos

03. 11. 2026 – 13. 11. 2026

CLOSING CONCERT - Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marián LEJAVA, Milan PAĽA (SK)