Sylvie Bodorová

Sylvie Bodorová (born 31 December 1954, České Budějovice) is a Czech composer.

Bodorová studied composition at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno and as a post-graduate later on at the Music Academy in Prague. She continued her studies in Gdańsk and Siena (with Professor Franco Donatoni at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana) and from 1987 she regularly attended Professor Ton de Leeuw's composition courses in Amsterdam. She taught at the Janáček Academy in Brno and, in the 90s, at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, where she was visiting professor for the 1994 and 1995 school years. In 1993 she made her first visit to the United States for a week-long residency in the School of Fine Arts at Miami University (Ohio). The music library at the University of Cincinnati houses several published scores, as well as copies of manuscript scores of her works.

Her works have since the early 80s been performed in all the continents, even in the Antarctic where her "Homage to Columbus" for guitar was heard in 1997. She has received several competition prizes (Mannheim, Czech Radio Prague) and many prestigious commissions from the Warwick Festival in the 90th Megiddo - Piano Trio - 2001, for the same festival -Terezin Ghetto Requiem - Škampa Quartet - 1998, "Ama me" for baritone and piano - 1999 and Vertumnus - Brass Quintet in 2005.

She wrote also compositions for Buenos Aires – Concierto de Estío for Guitar and Orchestra – 1999 and for Bochum in Germany – Saturnalia for Orchestra – 1999. After the great success of Terezín Ghetto Requiem the Prague Spring International Music Festival commissioned oratorio Juda Maccabeus for the performance in St. Vitus Cathedral (with Gabriela Beňačková, Aleš Briscein, Ivan Kusnjer and the Prague Philharmonic Choir) in May 2002 and then in Litomyšl International Festival in June 2002. Concerto dei fiori for Violin and Strings was premiered at Prague Spring Festival 1997, then performed in the United States in 1998 and in PONTES Festival Prague.

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