Marek Keprt

pianist and composer

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30. 10. 2023 v 19.00, BRNO
Komorní sál HF JAMU, Brno
concert: M. Keprt - Hibiki or Don't Curl the Haze in the Poke(2019-2023) - chamber opera - new version 
festival Setkávání Nové Hudby Plus 2023
Ensemble for New Music Tallinn, conductor: Arash Yazdani


29. 10. 2023 v 19.00, OLOMOUC
Atrium, Art centre of Palacký University Olomouc
czech premiere: M. Keprt - Hibiki or Don't Curl the Haze in the Poke (2019-2023) - chamber opera - new version
festival MusicOlomouc 2023
Ensemble for New Music Tallinn, conductor: Arash Yazdani


3. 10. 2023, 19.30, PRAGUE
St. Vavřinec church  / Hellichova 18, Prague
concert: poezie hudbou - ensemble Konvergence & guests
Program: M. Keprt - Květ vyškeblování se zhmotňuje na sněhu, Egli Prifti - piano


30. 9. 2023, 20.00, TALLINN (EST)
Theatrum, Vene street 14, Tallinn, Estonia
world premiere: M. Keprt - Hibiki or Don't Curl the Haze in the Poke (2019-2023) – Czech premiere chamber opera - new version
festival Sound Plasma Tallinn 2023
Ensemble for New Music Tallinn, conductor: Arash Yazdani


15. 6. 2023, 19.30, PRAGUE
St. Vavřinec church / Hellichova 18, Prague
concert: stopy a otisky - ensemble Konvergence & guests
Program
: N. Obuchov, M. Kopelent


19. 5. 2023, 17.00, OLOMOUC
Rub Gallery, Komenského 10, Olomouc
concert: Marek Keprt - piano recital
Program: A. N. Scriabin
Olomouc Museum Night 2023


15. 5. 2023, 17.00, PARDUBICE
Conservatory of Pardubice
concert: LICHTZWANG 2023: Světelnost a vzlety - Marek Keprt: Piano recital
Program: M. Keprt, T. Murail, A. N. Skrjabin, N. Obuchov


9. 5. 2023, 19.00, OLOMOUC
Corpus Christi Chapel, Art centre of Palacký University Olomouc
concert: LICHTZWANG 2023: Světelnost a vzlety - Marek Keprt: Piano recital
Program: M. Keprt, T. Murail, A. N. Skrjabin, N. Obuchov, R. Schumann


14. 4. 2023, 17.00, OLOMOUC
Rub Gallery, Komenského 10, Olomouc
concert: Piano recital - Marek Keprt
opening of Hilma af Klint 1862-1944, Garden of Eden exhibition
Program: M. Keprt, T. Murail, A. N. Skrjabin, N. Obuchov, R. Schumann


Marek Keprt (b. 1974, Olomouc) a pianist, composer, musicologist, teacher, director of the international music festival of contemporary music - MusicOlomouc and artistic director of Olomouc ensemble of contemporary music - Lichtzwang.

He studied piano (under A. Jenner and C. Graf-Adnet) and composition (under I. Eröd and D. Kaufmann) at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna between 1992 and 2000. He has also completed piano master courses under A. Jenner (Vienna), J. Tocco (Lucerne), C. Király (Budapest), C. Graf-Adnet (Vienna) and A. Weissenberg (Engelberg). He was a resident of Ostrava Days 2017 Institute and in 2018 he participated at "CEEC Composers Field Trip" in China.

Since 2002, he has been working as an assistant professor at the Department of Musicology at the Faculty of Arts, Palacký University in Olomouc. He worked as a piano and music theory teacher at the Religious Conservatory in Opava (2002 - 2014). He gave lectures at universities and music academies in Prague, Bratislava, Dresden, Leipzig, Halle, Krakow as well as participated in international conferences and congresses. 

The range of his repertoire includes the pieces from the periods of Romanticism, the turn of the 19th/20th centuries and the second half of the 20th century to the compositions of contemporary authors particularly on the music of Scriabin, Takemitsu, Russian avatgarde of the first half of the 20th century (Lourie, Vyšněgradskij, Roslavec, Obuchov), French spectralism (Messiaen, Murail, Pesson) and his own compositions. He regularly perform in Czech Republic, Austria, Switzerland, Netherlands and South Korea. As a soloist he collaborates with Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra and records for the Czech Radio.

Keprt was awared by several prizes at the competition Generace Ostrava and The Alban Berg Foundation in Vienna for his work. His compositions were performed in the Czech Republic, in some others European countries and also in the U.S.


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