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Ondřej Adámek (born 1979 in Prague, Czech Republic) studied composition at the Prague Music Academy and at the Paris Conservatoire. Adámek is currently (2010-2011) a guest of the Berlin Artists‘ Programme of the DAAD and it also composing a new work for the Ensemble Intercontemporain (Paris), which will be premièred in 2013.
In 2002 he was awarded a UNESCO grant for the production ‘Abila’, which was created in collaboration with the Gaara dance company in Nairobi. He has been commissioned to create works for, among others, the Witten Days for New Chamber Music, Les Musique and Warsaw Autumn as well as for the Vienna Klangforum, the Orchestre National d'Île de France and the Brandenburger Sinfoniker.
He has won many prizes, including the Prix de Bourges, the Prix Métamorphoses (Belgium) the Hungarian Radio Prize (2004) and the Composer’s Prize at the second Brandenburg Biennial in 2006, the Prix de la SACEM (2009) and the Grand Prix Tansman (2010).
Adámek’s works combine elements of orchestral, chamber and vocal music with electro-acoustic music, frequently in collaboration with contemporary dance choreographers. Adámek entrances his listeners with a colourful tonic language which combines contemporary music with elements from Japanese, Balinese or Andalusian or other foreign cultures, giving this heterogeneous musical material a clear form of expression.
Works (selection):
Chambrenôise (2010)
Nôise (2009)
Dusty Rusty Hush (2006-2007)
Strange Night in Daylight (2002-2004)