Vladimír Godár
composer / musicologist / editor
News
On Monday March 16 at 10 am you can tune in to the radio show Ars musica on Devín STVR, this time presenting the celebrating composer Vladimír Godár in an interview
with Tomáš Boroš.
Ars musica will then continue with the evaluation of the concert cycle Albrechtina – (Un)known Music, founder of which is also Godár, in its 17th season. Other guests present will be Albrechtina members Eva Šušková and Martin Krajčo.
On Monday March 16 at 3.00 pm you can watch the episode Vladimír Godár from the Musicians series (2015) directed by Martin Šulík on the TV programme 2 (STVR).
The first from the birthday concerts
Vladimír Godár – 70
will take place at the Moyzes Hall of the Faculty of Philosophy of CU on Wednesday March 18 at 6.00 pm as part of the Albrechtina (Un)known Music cycle.
Konvergencie festival has also prepared a great surprise, have a look:
Vladimír Godár is a popular composer of music to movies, majority of them directed by his friend the film director Martin Šulík. Kino Lumière joins the celebrations of his milestone birthday with screening the movies with his music, Take a look:
All the details regarding the birthday events can be found on the
Upcoming Events webpage!
The exquisite Dutch string quartet Matangi Quartet honoured Vladimír Godár by naming him the residential composer of this year’s Moving Music Festival, the successor of the former Unheard Music Festival, which in the past hosted such leading composers as Valentin Silvestrov, Paweł Szymański and John Psathas. The event was visited by the composer himself. The concert of his music was preceded by the INspired concert presenting the works by Heinrich Biber, Valentin Silvestrov and Alfred Schnittke, thus demonstrating music close to Vladimír Godár’s heart and presenting the possible inspirational basis of his creativity. The INspired concert was followed by an interview with the residential composer of tonight’s event.
The concert took place on January 24, 2026 in the New Church in The Hague. In the first part of the evening Emmeleia was presented in two versions: for piano and for string quartet, Talisman for string trio and Deploration sur la mort de Witold Lutosławski for piano quintet. After the intermission a new piece Largo and Passacaglia for string quartet opened the second part of the concert and the whole night culminated by an impressive fiery performance of Concerto Grosso. In the third movement of the piece the musicians on stage were joined by two dancers, who added another dimension to the spirituality of the whole performance. The choreography was prepared by Thom Stuart with De Dutch Don’t Dance Division.
Matangi Quartet in collaboration with Amare The Hague
Saturday, 24 January 2026 – Nieuwe Kerk, The Hague
On Saturday, 24 January 2026, the Matangi Quartet will present a new edition of the Moving Music Festival. After eight successful editions of the Unheard Music Festival and an anniversary year, this edition focuses on Slovak composer Vladimír Godár: a unique, introspective musical voice rarely heard live in the Netherlands.
Vladimír Godár – a composer for our time
In
a world full of noise and acceleration, Godár's music invites stillness
and reflection. His musical language is melancholic, spiritual, and
rooted in Central European culture. Godár (1956), both a composer and a musicologist, gained international recognition with his vocal cycle Mater and is often compared to Arvo Pärt and Henryk Górecki — not in style, but in spiritual expressiveness.
Matangi brings his music to Dutch stages "because Godár's work reminds us of the power of silence and beauty."
(source: https://www.matangi.nl/pages/moving-music-festival)
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