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Vladimír Bokes
(Curriculum Vitae)
- Year of birth
- 1946
- Nationality
- Slovak
- 1960–1965
- studied cello with G. Večerný and composition with J. Pospíšil at the Bratislava Conservatory
- 1965
- Sequenza for 9 Insruments
- 1965–1970
- continued composition studies with Alexander Moyzes (1965-66) and Dezider Kardoš (1966-70)
at the Academy of Music and Drama Bratislava
- 1970
- 1st Symphony for Orchestra, op. 8 (Bratislava 1970)
- 1970–1975
- taught music theory at the Bratislava Consevatory
- 1974
- 2nd String Quartet, op. 18 (Bratislava 1975, Prague 1977, St. Peterburg 1979)
- 1975–1989
- lectured on theoretical subjects at AMD Bratislava
- 1975
- 2nd Wind Quintet, op. 19 (Bratislava 1975, Baranow, Poland 1976)
- 1976
- 1st Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, op. 21 (Bratislava 1978)
- 1978
- 2nd Symphony for Orchetra, op. 24 (Bratislava 1980)
- 1980
- concerts and broadcast forbidden
- 1981
- 3rd Symphony for Orchestra, op. 36 (Košice 1989)
- 1982–2017
- teaches composition at AMD
- 1982
- 4th Symphony for Soli, Choir and Orchestra, op. 38
- 1984
- Essay of Comunicativity (published 1988)
- 1987
- 5th Symphony for Orchestra, op. 51 (Košice 1988)
- 1989
- Preludes and Fugues for Piano, op. 53 (Bratislava 1995)
- 1991
- J. L. Bella Prize (3rd Symphony)
- 1991
- Missa Posoniensis for Soli, Choir, Organ and Orchestra, op. 55
- 1992–1998
- chairman of the Committee of the International Festival of Contemporary Music Melos Ethos
- 1993
- received professorship at AMD
- 1995–1999
- chairman of Slovak Composers Union
- 2000
- ISCM World Music Days Luxembourg (Preludes and Fugues)
- 2002–2014
- chairman of Board of Music Foundation, Bratislava
- 2003
- Reconstruction of the original version of the opera Krútňava by Eugen Suchoň
- 2003
- 6th Symphony for Orchestra, op. 73 (Bratislava 2003)
- 2006
- Jubilee concert with the premiere of Sonata for Violin and Piano op. 27 (1978) after 28 years (Bratislava)
- 2007
- Premiere of Sequenza for 9 Instruments after 42 years (Bratislava)
- 2007
- ISCM World Music Days Hong Kong (Csardas Enikonek)
- 2008
- Premiere of the original version of Krútňava from Eugen Suchoň (State Opera B. Bystrica, Piešťany)
- 2009
- 7th Symphony for Orchestra, op. 80 (Bratislava 2011)
- 2012–2017
- teaches composition at Conservatory in Bratislava
- 2013
- ISCM World New Music Days Košice (Concertino for violoncello and chamber ensemble)
- 2016
- Premiere of Missa posoniensis (Bratislava)