Simon Vosecek

Composition and Music Theory (Classical Music)

Artistic & Pedagogical Education

  • 2002-2008 composition studies at the MDW (Czernowin, Urbanner, Schermann)
  • 1997-2002 composition studies at the Prague Conservatory (Kvěch)
  • After 2008: contact improvisation, songwriting, folk dance, yodeling, theater pedagogy
  • 2001-2002 conducting studies at the Prague Conservatory
  • 1992-1997 organ playing (Prague Music School)
  • 1984-1991 ballet and dance education 

Teaching Experience 

  • Since 2021 at the Friedrich Gulda School of Music (music theory, ear training, composition)
  • 2019 Master classes in composition (Lviv, Ukraine)
  • 2012-2016 theater projects with young people

Discography

  • 2019 Be My Superstar, chamber opera for young audience, producer: LOD Muziektheater, Ghent, Belgium
  • 2019 Hypnos for chamber orchestra (Prague Spring, Ben Glassberg, Prague Philharmonia)
  • 2017 Biedermann und die Brandstifter after Max Frisch (German premiere at Stadttheater Bremerhaven)
  • 2016 Hybris, chamber opera after Kristine Tornquist, producer: sirene Operntheater, Vienna
  • 2015 Biedermann und die Brandstifter after Max Frisch (British premiere, producer: Independent Opera at Sadler's Wells)
  • 2014 Mice, US premiere at the MATA Festival, Talea Ensemble
  • 2014 Biedermann und die Brandstifter after Max Frisch (Italian premiere at the Stadttheater Bozen, guest performance by Neue Oper Wien)
  • 2013 Biedermann und die Brandstifter after Max Frisch, world premiere, producer: Neue Oper Wien
  • Biedermann and the Arsonists after Max Frisch (ORF)
  • Sperm (ein_klang records)
  • Mice (col legno)
  • Islands (paladino media)