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The Jubilee Suite: No. 1, Prelude

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The Jubilee Suite: No. 2, Fantasia

This is the first of 4 movements for my Symphony No. 1 currently under construction. It is in sonata form with a slow and long exposition at the beginning followed by an energetic development of the two main themes along with some other themes. I've blended electronic sounds with traditional orchestral instruments in a pleasing way.

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Movement 1 of Symphony No. 1 by Dave Laude of CFO

EARLY BUTTERFLIES for viola and guitar
Composed by Peter Machajdik
https://www.machajdik.com

Performed by Veronika Kubešová (viola) and Adam Svitač (guitar)
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Sheet Music available via https://www.machajdik.com/viola.html

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Born 1961 in former Czechoslovakia, Peter Machajdík is a composer of a wide range of chamber, orchestral, electronic and multimedia works. He often takes very simple materials and a simple mode of expression, and creates a vibrant and challenging sonic palette. His music, commonly characterised as emotive, hypnotic, imaginary and cinematic, has been performed to international audiences on five continents for over twenty five years.

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Machajdík - EARLY BUTTERFLIES for viola and guitar

Everywhere, somewhere and nowhere all at once.

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Electronics engineer and self taught hobby musician. Designed and built analog synth and dual-keyboard MIDI controller. I play keyboard for my own pleasure as well as compose, orchestrate and perform music using a program I wrote decades ago that runs on an Atari ST computer (1980s tech).  During a performance the ST outputs MIDI data to my analog synth and several digital synths. The CFO name: Celestial-The real possibilities for music that exist beyond our world. Fantasy-Imagined possibilities that go beyond celestial. Orchestra-I conduct an electronic orchestra with a vast collection of real and synthetic sounds. I do not limit myself to the major and minor keys, but rather use whatever notes make the piece sound as I want. At times the music may be in tonal keys and at other times modal. My profile photo is of me in Mars analog simulation at the Mars Desert Research Station in a Utah desert.

Bratislava-born Peter Machajdík is a composer of a wide range of chamber, orchestral, electronic and multimedia works. His music, commonly characterised as emotive, hypnotic, imaginary and cinematic, has been performed to international audiences on five continents for over twenty five years and has been featured at festivals such as Inventionen in Berlin, New Work in Calgary, Early Music Festival in Boston, LakeComo Festival, Ostrava Days, Nuovi Spazi Musicali in Rome, Young Euro Classic in Berlin, Hörgänge at the Konzerthaus in Vienna, Bolzano Festival, Sagra Musicale Malatestiana in Rimini, Kauniainen Music Festival and Hauho Music Festival in Finland, Audio Art Festival in Cracow, Contrasts in Lviv, Melos-Ethos Festival, and the Bratislava Music Festival. 

Machajdík has collaborated and worked with some of the most established orchestras and ensembles including the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra, I.J.Paderewski State Philharmonic Orchestra, Berg Orchestra, Slovak Chamber Orchestra, Lublin Philharmonic, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Camerata Europea, Luhansk Symphony Orchestra, Cluster Ensemble, Ensemble Metamorphosis, Virtuosi Lviv Chamber Orchestra, Prague Modern, Arte Quartett, and soloists such as harpists Floraleda Sacchi, Klára Bábel and Megan Morris, clarinetists Martin Adámek and Guido Arbonelli, organists Carson Cooman and Olena Matselyukh, violist Sasha Mirković, cellists John Alex Heley, Piero Salvatori, Darry Dolezal and Jozef Lupták, harpsichordists Elina Mustonen, Sonia Lee and Asako Hirabayashi, pianists Jordana Palovičová, Daniel Garel, Mayuko Kida, flutists Rebecca Jeffreys and Alex Griffiths, accordionists Boris Lenko and Peter Katina, double bassist Dritan Gani to name just a few. Conductors who have performed his work include Benjamin Bayl, Paweł Przytocki, Anu Tali, Maria Makraki, Ondrej Olos, Peter Breiner, Peter Vrábel, Marián Lejava, Petr Kofroň, Ondřej Kukal and Hakan Sensoy. Machajdík has also composed scores for feature films and documentaries, contemporary dance, theatre and radio plays, and is a pioneering composer of flexuous music (blurred music). He has also created a number of graphic scores that have been exhibited and performed worldwide. 

Once one of the central figures in the avant-garde and contemporary music scene in former Czechoslovakia for over 25 years, Machajdík has been awarded a 1988 Luigi Russolo Composition Prize, a 2011 International Visegrad Fund individual artist grant, and the Ján Levoslav Bella Composition Prize for his string quartets. He was the recipient of the 2016 and 2018 grants from the Slovak Arts Council.

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