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Ľubica Čekovská (Ľubica Salamon-Čekovská, Ľubica Malachovská-Čekovská; born March 16, 1975,

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Biography

Čekovská studied at the

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and the Royal Academy of Music in London. Her works have been featured at

ISCM World Music Days The ISCM World Music Days is an annual contemporary music festival organized by the International Society for Contemporary Music, originally created in 1923 as the ISCM Festival as a means to support the most advanced composition tendencies.

festivals (2009, Sweden; 2013, Slovakia) and

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festivals (2006, 2013, 2015). She was awarded the

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Prize for her piano concerto ''Two Portraits'' (2003), and the 2012 SOZA Award for international performances of Slovak music. Čekovská works in a variety of genres, including composing for film, television, and theatre. She is represented by the German music publisher

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. Her latest opera, ''Impresario Dotcom'', was commissioned for the

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in 2020, but postponed due to the

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. Čekovská then created a special abridged version for the restructured ''Festtage im Festspielhaus'' event in August 2020.

Works

Čekovská assigned opus numbers to early works, but stopped using them after Op. 12 in 2000.

Operas

* ''As Time Goes By'' (2005) ** Collaborative work by Čekovská, Marius Baranauskas, Age Hirv,

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, and Sean Reed. Libretto by Xavier Zuber. Premiered 29 September 2005,

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* ''Dorian Gray'' (2013) ** Opera in 3 acts. Libretto by Kate Pullinger after the

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. Premiered 8 November 2013, Bratislava.

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, cond. Christopher Ward * ''Impresario Dotcom'' (2020) ** Opera buffa in 4 acts. Libretto by Laura Olivi after Carlo Goldoni’s ''L'impresario delle Smirne'' (1759). Commissioned for the

, premiered in abridged version 20 August 2020.

Orchestral

* ''Turbulence'' (Op. 11; 2000, rev. 2007) * ''Shadow Scale'' (2006) * ''Adorations'' (2006) * ''Dorian Gray'' Suite (2011) * ''Palingenia'' (2015) * ''Etuda'' (2016) * ''Cantus Simplicissimus'' (2018)

Large ensemble

* ''Fragment and Elegies'' (1997, rev. 2004) – String orchestra * Piece for String Orchestra (Op. 7; 1999) * ''Arctic Descent'' (Op. 8; 1999) – Woodwind ensemble * ''Fractal'' (Op. 12; 2000) – Chamber orchestra * ''Postludium'' (2005) – Chamber orchestra * ''Interrupted Line'' (2006, rev. 2008) – chamber orchestra * ''Theatre Music'' (2011) – String orchestra

Concertos

* Concerto ''Two Portraits'' (2003) – piano, orchestra * Violin Concerto (2010)

Chamber music and solo instrumental

* Composition for Trumpet and Piano (Op. 2; 1997) * ''Brown’s Motion'' (Op. 3; 1997) – flute, bassoon, piano * ''Fragment and Elegies'' (Op. 4; 1997) – solo accordion * ''Dark'' (Op. 5; 1997) – oboe, piano * ''One Minute'' (1997) – solo trombone * ''The Song'' (2002) – cello, piano * ''Kuckucks Winterlied'' (2005) – 4 cellos * ''In Conversation'' (2006) – cello, bayan * ''Musica homonensis'' (2007) – solo organ * ''Lux in tenebris'' (2007) – trumpet, organ * ''Duo Concertante'' (2010) – violin, piano * ''Evenodd'' (2013) – wind quintet * ''Nachtigalls Frühlingslied'' (2014) – 4 cellos * ''A Midsummer Quartet'' (2016) – string quartet * ''Fathers Downbeat'' (2018) – 4 basses, percussion * ''Esaje'' ssays(2019) – viola, piano

Choral

* ''Close Harmony'' (1997) – SATB * ''On First Looking into Chapman's Homer'' (Op. 6; 1998) – SATB * ''Three Fragments from Stabat Mater'' (2018) – SSAATTBB * ''Liberte'' (2019) – Mezzo-soprano solo, SATB, orchestra

Voice and piano

* ''At Day-Close in November'' (Op. 9; 1997) – Mezzo-soprano – Text by

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* ''Der Tod und das Mädchen'' (Op. 10; 1997) – Baritone – Text by

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* ''Dialogues'' (2001) – Tenor * ''Six Songs'' (2002) – Soprano

Solo piano

* ''Five Miniatures'' (Op. 1; 1996) * ''LaSiFaDo'' (2007) * ''famisi'' (2007) * ''Sonata Tensiona'' (2009) * ''Four Movements'' (2012)

Film and television

* ''Slečna Dušehojivá'' (2000) – TV movie * ''

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'' (2002) * ''Kriminálka Staré Město'' (2010-13) – TV series * ''Exponáty alebo príbehy z kaštieľa'' (2013) – Documentary * ''Kolonáda'' (2013) – TV series * ''38'' (2014) – Documentary * ''Jak jsme hráli čáru'' (2014) * ''Čakáreň'' (2014) – Documentary * ''Dvojčata'' (2015) – TV series * ''Pirko'' (2016) * ''Dubček'' (2018) * ''Niečo naviac'' (2018) – Documentary * ''Vlci'' (2018) – TV series * ''Nero a Seneca'' (2019) – TV movie

References

External links

Official Website

Ľubica Čekovská
composer page at

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Music Centre Slovakia
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