Peter Machajdík

In 1992, he was the guest of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program. Machajdik has composed music in nearly all genres, including orchestra, band, chorus, chamber music, works for solo instrument, works for piano and organ, as well as liturgical works and hymns. Moreover, he has created a number of graphic notations, including the Dialogue with.. Series which is based on letters received from composer colleagues with additional visual elements added. While in this series the written content of the letters may appear as audible text, other graphic notations are purely visual (like Wold). Others again contain notation or text describing elements to be performed (like Donauklang). His music is published primarily by Musica Slovaca, Alea Publishing, Zimbel Press, and Edition Hudba. Music often asks questions about the society in which we live. It calls for humanity and responsibility that human beings should have to each other and to the world. Machajdík's works, often considered as the counterpoint to the violence, intolerance, racism and greed of our age, are marked by a keen sensitivity to instrumental colour and texture. Machajdik's orchestral works have been premiered by the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra, State Philharmonic Orchestra of Košice, Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Pomeranian Philharmonic, Lugansk Symphony Orchestra, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Slovak Chamber Orchestra, Camerata Europea, Capella Istropolitana, Ensemble Metamorphosis, Cluster Ensemble, and many others. He has also worked with Jon Anderson from Yes, harpist Floraleda Sacchi, cimbalom virtuoso Enikö Ginzery, vocalist & drummer David Moss, conductors Benjamin Bayl, Anu Tali, Miran Vaupotić, Florian Ludwig, Pawel Przytocki, Gum Nanse, Przemysław Zych, clarinetists Martin Adámek and Guido Arbonelli, and violist Sasha Mirković. Film credits include Machajdik's scores for 4 Schüler gegen Stalin (2005), Wild Slovakia (2015) and Miloš and the Lynxes (2010). Machajdik has worked with choreographers and dancers such as Dorothea Rust, Studio tanca, Petra Fornayova, Tina Mantel, Lucia Kašiarová, and others. A vegetarian and teetotaler, Machajdík lives in Berlin, Germany, and in a little Slovak town situated in a valley, surrounded by lofty hills. He is currently Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Arts in Košice.

Arching Sentiments for brass quintet (2024) c. 10 minutes They observed, but did not evaluate for clarinet in B♭, violoncello and accordion (2024) c. 12 minutes If for solo trumpet (2024) c. 5 minutes Mothers for viola and string orchestra (2023), Meta World Contemporary Art Festival, Belgrade, 13 December 2023, Saša Mirković (vla), Ensemble Metamorphosis Natural Harbors for violin, viola, cello, double bass and piano (2022) 15 minutes The Lost Blue - Still Connecting for flute, percussion (vib, crotales) and piano (2022) 14 minutes Quiet Differences for two guitars (2022) 7 minutes Converging Understandings for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns (2022) 11 minutes Kryha for two accordions (2021) Planting for cimbalom (2021) Da perenne gaudium for organ (2021) Lavender Fields for flute, viola and harp (2020) 10 minutes On Temperance for piano (2020) The Vanishing for 2 accordions and organ (2020) 12 minutes Sinaia Echoes for flute, percussion (vib, gong) and piano (2020) 15 minutes More Questions Than Answers for guitar (2020) 8 minutes Invisible Beings for string orchestra (2019) In der Essenz for flute, percussion (vib, trgl) and piano (2019) 5 minutes Howling Glaciers for piano and accordion (2019) Gegen.Stand for accordion and orchestra (2019) 20 minutes Sacrifices for piano (2019) Déjà vu (Concertino for harpsichord and string orchestra) [1999, rev. 2019] Mornings for piano (2019) Terauchi for string quartet and audio-playback (2018) 10 minutes Ave verum for soprano, violin and organ (2018), Organ Plus Festival in Ružomberok, 25 June 2023, Miriam Žiarna, soprano, Rastislav Adamko, violin, Zuzana Zahradníková, organ Ave verum for soprano, violin and piano (2018), Filharmonia Częstochowska, Częstochowa, 20 March 2024, Miriam Žiarna, soprano, Rastislav Adamko, violin, Zuzana Zahradníková, piano It's Not the Mist for two pianos (2018) Zem for organ (2018) 1-9-1-8 for violin and piano (2018) Signes de la mémoire for clarinet, violin, cello and piano (2017) approx. 8 minutes Wold [open instrumentation and duration assumed] (2017) Folium for piano and organ (2017) 10 minutes Guitar quintet The Son, for guitar and string quartet (2017) approx. 10 minutes In Embrace for double bass and piano (2017) approx. 11 minutes Mit den Augen eines Falken for mandolin and guitar (2017) approx. 11 minutes Behind the Waves for viola and string orchestra (2016) approx. 12 minutes Portus pacis for organ (2016) 9 minutes Abandoned Gates for piano and string quartet (2016) 13 minutes Seas and Deserts for string quartet and audio-playback (2015) 12 minutes Ich war in dir for soprano and cello (2015) Danube Afterpoint for piccolo, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, two pianos and string quartet (2015) 15 minutes Effugium for accordion and audio-playback (2015) 8 minutes Senahh for flute and piano (2015) Green for accordion (2015) Spomaleniny for violin and piano (2014) Munk for viola and piano (2013) Silent Wanderings for guitar (2012) 5 minutes Wie der Wind in den Dünen for string orchestra (2011) The Immanent Velvet for piano (2011) Kyrie for mixed choir a cappella (SATB) (2011) Pictures of a Changing Sensibility for violin and piano (2011) Linnas for piano (2011) Domine for mixed choir (SATB) and tubular bells (2011) Flower full of Gardens for harp or harpsichord (2010) San José for large orchestra (2010) Zem zeme for clarinet quartet (2009) Water Forgives for cimbalom (2009) Concerto for 2 bayans and orchestra, dedicated to all of those who helped to remove „the iron curtain“ and the communistic regimes in the central part of Europe in the 1989 (2008) On the Seven Colours of Light for organ (2007) Iese for flute solo (2007) approx. 5 minutes To the Rainbow So Close Again for string quartet (2004) Nell'autunno del suo abbraccio insonne for harp (2004) Obscured Temptations for piano (2003) Si diligamus invicem for mixed choir a cappella (SATB) (2002) Namah for string orchestra (2000) Lasea for string orchestra (2000) Kirin for oboe solo (1999/2001) Five Mirrors for accordion (1997) Wrieskalotkipaoxq for saxophone quartet (1996) Intime Musik [open instrumentation and duration assumed] (1994)

Escaped Alone [music for the production of Caryl Churchill's play Escaped Alone under Eduard Kudláč's direction at the Slovak National Theatre] (2021) Niekto príde" (Nokon kjem til å komme) [music for the production of Jon Fosse's play Nokon kjem til å komme under Eduard Kudláč's direction at the Žilina Theatre] (2021) Bezzubata [music for the production of Miklos Forgacs's play Bezzubata under Eduard Kudláč's direction at the Žilina Theatre] (2019)

Donauklang [open instrumentation and duration assumed] (1989) Dialogue with Stockhausen [open instrumentation and duration assumed] [1984] Dialogue with Malcom Goldstein [open instrumentation and duration assumed] [1984]