Michael Pinkas
*1 June 1989
Works by Michael Pinkas
Biography
Michael Pinkas is a Czech composer, music theorist, lecturer and choirmaster. In 2023 he graduated in Composition and Music Theory, Major in Music Theory at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. He is a lecturer at the private conservatory in Prague and conducts amateur choirs.
As a music theorist he participated at the conferences at the University of Music and Theater Leipzig, University of Music Freiburg, Mozarteum University Salzburg, and Basel Academy of Music. Currently he teaches at the Privat Conservatory in Prague (Music Theory, Music History, Harmony).
He is a member of Austrian Composers Association, Vienna, AT; member of Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie (GMTH), Berlin, DE; and member of Asociace hudebních umělců a vědců (AHUV), Prague, CZ.
He has composed music for orchestras and choirs, including the North Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and the choir of the Janáček Opera of the National Theatre in Brno, for ensembles as the Salon Orchestra St. Moritz, Krása Quartet, String Quartet of the Moravian Philharmonic orchestra, and for soloist, including Jaqueline Kopacinski, Aleksandra Juszczak, Magdalena Kołcz-Wrzesień or Ludmila Pavlová. His compositions have been played in the Czech Republic, Austria and Switzerland.
About the music
The music of Michael Pinkas can be understood as an abstract work of art inspired by ideas from everyday life, philosophy, arts, and literature. His aesthetic interest in no way excludes neither microtonality, atonality, or working with timbre, nor allusions from early music, including Gregorian chant or early renaissance techniques. His compositions are based on the search for the musical form, which seems as if it were being created at the moment while retaining its inner logic and rationality. This tension is expressed as a dialectic interplay of solitary gestures or sound moments that spread spatially and temporally while creating a structure that constantly and arbitrarily seeks its validity.