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Born1 June 1961 (age 54)
Bratislava, Slovakia (1961-06-01) GenresClassical, Contemporary classical music, Film music LabelsDecca Records, Azyl Music, Musica slovaca, Albany Records, Amadeus Arte, Pavlik Records, Czech Radio EducationUniversity of Economics in Bratislava
Peter machajd k as the wind in the dunes for string orchestra
Peter Machajdík['maxajɟik] (born 1 June 1961) is a contemporary composer and sound artist. He was born and grew up in Bratislava, Slovakia and lives in Berlin, Germany.
In the 1990s, he took part in seminars with Vinko Globokar, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Clarence Barlow, Konrad Boehmer, and others. In 1992, he was the guest of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program.
Machajdik has composed music in nearly all genres, including orchestra, band, chorus, chamber music, works for solo instrument, works for piano and organ, as well as liturgical works and hymns. His music is published primarily by Musica Slovaca, Alea Publishing, Zimbel Press, and Edition Hudba.
Peter Machajdík is currently Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Arts in Košice.
Peter Machajdík's music often asks questions about the society in which we live. It calls for humanity and responsibilitiy that human beings should have to each other and to the world.
Machajdik's orchestral works have been premiered by the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra, State Philharmonic Orchestra of Košice, Pomeranian Philharmonic, Lugansk Symphony Orchestra, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Slovak Chamber Orchestra, Camerata Europea, Capella Istropolitana and many others.
Film credits include Machajdik’s scores for 4 Schüler gegen Stalin (2005), Wild Slovakia (2015) and Miloš and the Lynxes (2010). Machajdik has worked with choreographers and dancers such as Dorothea Rust, Studio tanca, Petra Fornayova, Tina Mantel, Lucia Kašiarová, and others.
Peter machajd k namah for string orchestra and woodblock
Selected works
Guitar quintet The Son, for guitar and string quartet (2017) 10 mins
Mit den Augen eines Falken for mandolin and guitar (2017) 10 mins
Behind the Waves for viola and string orchestra (2016) 12 mins
Blahoslavení - Błogosławioni (Blessed) for soprano, violin solo and string orchestra (2016) 9 mins
Portus pacis for organ (2016) 9 mins
Abandoned Gates for piano and string quartet (2016) 13 mins
Seas and Deserts for string quartet and audio-playback (2015) 12 mins
Ich war in dir for soprano and cello (2015)
Danube Afterpoint for piccolo, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, two pianos and string quartet (2015) 15 mins
Effugium for accordion and audio-playback (2015) 8 mins
Senahh for flute and piano (2015)
Green for accordion (2015)
Turbulent Times for timpani, snare drum, large drum and string orchestra (2014)
Spomaleniny for violin and piano (2014)
Munk for viola and piano (2013)
As the Wind in the Dunes for string orchestra (2011)
The Immanent Velvet for piano (2011)
Kyrie for mixed choir a cappella (SATB) (2011)
Pictures of a Changing Sensibility for violin and piano (2011)
Linnas for piano (2011)
Domine for mixed choir (SATB) and tubular bells (2011)
Flower full of Gardens for harp or harpsichord (2010)
San José for large orchestra (2010)
Zem zeme for clarinet quartet (2009)
Concerto for 2 bayans and orchestra, dedicated to all of those who helped to remove „the iron curtain“ and the communistic regimes in the central part of Europe in the 1989 (2008)
On the Seven Colours of Light for organ (2007)
Iese for flute solo (2007) c. 5 mins
To the Rainbow So Close Again for string quartet (2004)
Nell'autunno del suo abbraccio insonne for harp (2004)
Obscured Temptations for piano (2003)
Si diligamus invicem for mixed choir a cappella (SATB) (2002)
2012: A MARVELOUS LOVE - New Music for Organ (Carson Cooman plays compositions by Peter Machajdík, Patricia Van Ness, Jim Dalton, Tim Rozema, Al Benner, Thomas Åberg, and Harold Stover), Albany Records, Catalogue No. TROY1357
2012: THE IMMANENT VELVET (Machajdík's chamber music for piano, guitar, cello, harp and strings), Azyl Records, Catalogue No. R266-0024-2-331
2015: ELEKTRICKÁ GITARA (Machajdík's 12 minute composition LET for electric guitar, and works by composers such as Luciano Berio, Daniel Matej, Boško Milaković, Juraj Vajó, Pavol Bizoň, Ivan Buffa), Hevhetia, Catalogue No. HV 0070-2-331
On the 2008 CD NAMAH, Machajdík worked with singer Jon Anderson from Yes, harpist Floraleda Sacchi, vocalist & drummer David Moss, clarinet virtuoso Guido Arbonelli, cello player Jozef Lupták, and others.