Lucie Vítková | concert

ConcertCella Gallery and Hovorny, Opava

LUCIE VÍTKOVÁ | CONCERT Thursday, October 24, 2024, at 6 PM Galerie Cella, Opava

One of the most prominent contemporary Czech composers and performers, Lucie Vítková/Luc Vitk, who has long lived and worked in New York, will perform their current work directly within the exhibition of Katalin Ladik.

Lucie Vítková/Luc Vitk is a composer, improviser, and performer (accordion, hichiriki, synthesizer, harmonica, voice, and dance) from the Czech Republic, living in New York. During their studies of composition at Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno (CZ), they have been visiting scholar at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague (NL), California Institute of the Arts in Valencia (USA), Universität der Künste in Berlin (D), Columbia University in New York (USA) and at New York University. Their compositions focus on sonification (compositions based on abstract models derived from physical objects), while in their improvisation practice, Luc/ie works with the characteristics of discrete spaces through the interaction between sound and movement. In Luc/ie’s recent work, they are interested in the social-political aspects of music in relation to everyday life and in reusing trash to build sonic costumes and instruments. They have been nominated for the 2017 Herb Alpert Awards in Arts in the category of Music, were commissioned by the Roulette Intermedium in 2017 and have become Roulette resident artist in 2018. They have put together two ensembles – the NYC Constellation Ensemble (focused on musical behavior) and the OPERA Ensemble (for singing instrumentalists). In their dissertation, Compositional Techniques of Christian Wolff and Social Aspects in Music, which was published in 2021, Luc/ie analyzed the music of Christian Wolff, researching on compositional techniques which change relationships between players to reform established hierarchies in music.

Luc/ie’s teachers and collaborators include George Lewis, Suzanne Cusick, Ellie Hisama, Miya Masaoka, Petr Kotík, Hitomi Nakamura, Teerapat Parnmongkol, Jolana Havelková, Muyassar Kurdi, Haruhiko Okabe, Jaroslav Šťastný, Teodora Stepančić, James Ilgenfritz, Mae May, and Graham Haynes.

www.vitkovalucie.com

The concert is being held as an accompanying program to the exhibition Katalin Ladik: Homo Ludens.