WORKS
(audio excerpts)
Due to recording rights, only selected excerpts are presented. Full recordings are available upon request.
VETERNO - UPRŠANO 2025
(Windy - Rainy)
for guitar and piano
Recorded in 2025 for the forthcoming album Slovak Music for Guitar and Piano, Veterno-upršano reflects the shifting relationship between wind and rain, built from simple material that moves fluidly between the piano (Kristína Smetanová) and the guitar (Adam Svitač).
NOC NA ZELENEJ ŽABE 2025
(Night at the 'Green Frog' baths)
for clarinet, bassoon, violin, and viola
Noc na Zelenej žabe was composed on commission for Ensemble Opera Diversa in Brno. The work was inspired by the architecture of Bohuslav Fuchs and principles of functionalism, and was premiered in one of Fuchs’s buildings in Brno as a site-specific performance. In the compositional process, I followed principles of simplicity without ornament, regularity, geometry, and function, with respect for the environment in which the music is placed, much like the building relates to its natural surroundings.
BOTANIKÖR 2023
for string orchestra
The title Botanikör comes from the words botanic and core, this work is inspired by minimalism and organic processes of natural growth, building musical layers around a central core.
The work was commissioned and premiered in 2023 by Serbian Ensemble Metamorphosis at the META World Festival in Belgrade; this recording is from the Slovak premiere (2025), performed by the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava, conducted by Pavel Šnajdr.
CARPATHIAN TIMBRE 2022
for chamber orchestra
Carpathian Timbre is my most frequently performed orchestral work. It was first performed in Gandia (Spain), followed by performances in Valencia (Spain) and Linköping (Sweden) in 2022. The Slovak premiere took place with the Slovak Chamber Orchestra in Žilina in 2023.
This recording comes from World New Music Days 2024 festival in Tórshavn (Faroe Islands), performed by the Lapland Chamber Orchestra, conducted by John Storgårds. The work was subsequently performed twice more in Finland in 2025.
NA VLNE I NA VETRE 2021
(On the Wave, on the Wind)
for piano four-hands
DEVANAS DUO, a four-hands piano duo of two Slovak pianists (Kristína Smetanová, Julia Stahl-Novosedlíková), released their debut album featuring six works commissioned from selected Slovak composers. One of these works is my composition On the Wave, on the Wind, which was also premiered the same year at the Asynchrónie Festival in June at the Slovak Radio Building.
HMLISTÔ 2021
(Foggish)
for flute, oboe, clarinet, violin, viola, violoncello, and piano
I was commissioned to compose this piece for EnsembleSpectrum on the occasion of the Festival of New Slovak Music 2021, held at the Slovak Radio Building in Bratislava. Foggish was inspired by the constant changes of clouds and fog in the High Tatras mountains.
ZVUKY DŽUNGLE II. 2019/2020
(Sounds of Jungle II.)
for flute and chamber orchestra
The Sounds of Jungle II. was performed as my graduation concert in 2019 by the Moravian Philharmonic, with flutist Hana Hána as soloist, at the Brno Philharmonic. The Slovak premiere followed in May 2021, performed by the Slovak National Chamber Orchestra as part of the Music Connecting Continents program, conducted by Debashish Chaudhuri, again with Hana Hána as soloist.
This composition was selected as the winner of GENERATION 2021, an international competition of composers from the V4 countries, organized by the Leoš Janáček International Festival of Music.
ZVUKY DŽUNGLE I. 2017-2018
(Sounds of Jungle I.)
for solo flute
Inspired by wild nature, animals, and indigenous rhythms of Central and South America, Sounds of Jungle I. is a composition for solo flute dedicated to flutist Hana Hána. It was premiered in 2017 at the Brno Philharmonic and has since been performed internationally.
PIANO CONCERTO 2015
(Piano Concerto)
for piano and chamber orchestra
Having studied piano since the age of seven alongside composition, I completed my conservatory studies at the age of twenty with my first Piano Concerto as a graduation project. In the recording, I appear as the piano soloist, accompanied by a chamber orchestra formed by my classmates. Although this is one of my earliest orchestral works, it already shows my interest in exploring new timbral colors and aleatoric techniques that later became an important part of my compositional language.