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Petra Bachratá

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1992 – 1993 studies in composition (Ladislav Burlas)
1993 – 1999 Faculty of Medicine of the Comenius University in Bratislava
1994 – 2000 Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (composition – Vladimír Bokes)
2006 – 2010 postgraduate study of composition and electroacoustic music at the University in Aveiro, Portugal (thesis: Gesture Interaction in Music for Instruments and Electroacoustic Space)
1997 composition courses (IRCAM Paris, France – Ivan Fedele, Szombathely, Hungary – Brian Ferneyhough, Reichenau – Ivana Loudová)
1999 and 2000 participation in the International Composition and Interpretation Project Music Without Borders in the Heart of Europe
from 2000 doctor at the 1st Neurological Clinic of the Faculty Hospital in Bratislava (October 2003 – certification in neurology)
2001 summer courses of composition and electroacoustic music Paris IRCAM – Brian Ferneyhough, Johnatan Harvey, Marc André Dalbavie
2002 member of the composer's committee of the Music Fund Bratislava
2004 cooperation with percussionist Pedro Carneiro, commission of composition for the project and CD Music for Marimba and Computer; participation, lecture and performed work on the 1st Symposium on Cognition and Musical Arts (Curitiba, Brasilia)
2005 – 2007 premieres and performances of compositions within the famous festivals – ICMC 2005 Barcelona, ICMC 2006 New Orleans, Havana Spring (Cuba), Ai Maako (Santiago de Chile), Visiones Sonoras (Mexico), International Festival of Acousmatic Music (Cagliari, Italy), Cycle de concerts université Paris VIII (France), Musica Viva (Portugal), Festival de Outono Aveiro (Portugal), Confluencias (Spain), Keele University Music Series (Great Britain), Musica Nova (Czech Republic) etc.
2006 specialization in vertebrology
2006 Ph.D. stipendium from Fundaç&
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  234;ncia e Technologia, Lisboa
2007 International competition of the electronic music "Pierre Schaeffer", Pescara, (IT) – finalist with the work Mystic Garden
2008 2nd prize at the international competition 3. Concurso Internacional de Povoa de Varzim, category "orchestral work" with the composition What if?

In 2004 collaborated with percussionist Pedro Carneiro, received an order to compose for a project of CD Music for Marimba and Computer. By lecture and performance of her composition she participated in the 1st Symposium on Cognition and Musical Arts (Curitiba, Brasil). Premieres and performances of other compositions on significant international festivals in 2005 – 2007: ICMC 2005 Barcelona (Spain), ICMC 2006 New Orleans (USA), Havana Spring (Cuba), Ai Maako (Santiago de Chile), Visiones Sonoras (Mexico), International Festival of Acousmatic Music (Cagliari, Italy), Cycle de concerts université Paris VIII (France), Musica Viva (Portugal), Festival de Outono Aveiro (Portugal), Confluencias (Spain), Keele University Music Series (Great Britain), Musica Nova (Czech Republic) and others.

Awards

2007- finalist for work Mystic Garden

International Electroacoustic Music Competition, Bourges (FR)
2006- finalist for work Nunataq

Musica Nova, International Electroacoustic Music Competition, Prague (CZ)
2005for work Nunataq

Confluencias – international competition of electroacoustic miniatures (Huelva, Spain)
2005- finalist for work Nunataq

Pierre Schaeffer International Competition of Computer Music Composition, Pescara (IT)
2005- finalist for work Reflections

Ján Levoslav Bella Prize
2002for work Ontogenesis

Year of Slovak Music International Composition Competition, Bratislava (SK)
1996- Special Prize for work Sonata Vision

works

Machina Lírica

for flute and guitar - 7''
2012
Instrumentation: fl, gui

Frozen Colors 

 

2011 6' 10'' 
Instrumentation: cl, pf, ac, 2vn, vc

555 or Little More

2011

Instrumentation: marimba

Somewhere... Where the Rainbow Ends

2009 - 11'' 
Instrumentation: fl/flb, cl/clb, pf, bat

What if?

2008 - 10' 30" 
Instrumentation: orch

Eyes Wide Shut

2008 - 11' 29'' 
Instrumentation: fl/flp/fla, ob, cl/clb, vn, vl, vc, pf, bat

Vozes de aço

for solo flute (piccolo, flute, bass flute and voice) 
2008 - 11'' 
Instrumentation: fl (flp, fl, flb, v)

Subjective Risk... No Alternative

2007

Instrumentation: fl, ob, cl, clb, cr, sxbr, tr, tn, bat, pf, ac, 2vn, vl, vc, cb

Mystic Garden

2007

Instrumentation: C + (fl, ac, pf)

Luminiscence

electroacoustic version 
2006 - 7' 10" 
Instrumentation: C+(fl)

Bagatelle

for piano 
2006 - 2' 53'' 

instrumentation: pf

Nunataq

2005 - 12' 30" 
Instrumentation: C

Ritual

2005

Instrumentation: 2tr, cr, tn, tu

Angakkoq

2004

Instrumentation: clb

Reflections

2004

Instrumentation: C + (mb)

Luminiscence

2001
Instrumentation: fl

X-treme

2000

Instrumentation: s, br, fl, cl, ar, vl, cb, bat

Distantia

for flute and double bass 
2000

Instrumentation: fl, cb

Confrontations

1999

Instrumentation: cl, vn, vc

Aberrationes

1998

Instrumentation: 2vn, vl, vc, cb
Song for a Flute

1997
Instrumentation: fl

Trio

1997

Instrumentation: vn, vc, pf

Ontogenesis

1997
Instrumentation: fl

Sonata Vision

1996

Instrumentation: vn, pf

Choral e canon
1995
instrumentation: fl, cl, fg
 
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