Od roku 2019
O festivalu
Festival orchestrální hudby, která zatím neexistuje, v sálech, pro které vzniká.
Nová orchestrální hudba se objednává asi ve čtyřiceti místnostech na světě. Šest dní v roce bychom je rádi měli v Praze.
Summit začal v roce 2019 jako tři dny v jednom sále, čtyřicet lidí a dvě objednávky zaplacené z grantu určeného na něco jiného. Od té doby si drží stejný tvar: skladatelé píší pro konkrétní sál, sál je zamluvený dřív, než vznikne jediná nota, a hráči se dozvědí, kdo skladbu napsal, až když si ji přehrají.
Nic se tu neuvádí dvakrát. Skladba zazní, druhý den ráno se o ní mluví se skladatelem sedícím v sále, a pak patří komukoli, kdo ji chce uvést dál. Nedržíme si exkluzivitu a po nikom ji nechceme.
Festival celoročně připravuje šest lidí, v dubnu asi devadesát. Financují ho veřejné zdroje, nadace a několik firem; účetní závěrka se zveřejňuje každý březen.
Year-round and seasonal crew
The team
Six people work on the festival all year. Another ninety arrive in April and make it actually happen.
Core team
Composers Summit Prague, z. s.
Kontakt
Čtyři adresy a na každé z nich odpovídá člověk, kterému patří.
Press enquiries are answered within a working day. Everything else takes as long as it takes.
Composers Summit Prague is a registered association, funded by a mix of public money, foundations and companies. Its accounts are published each March and its programme is decided by a panel whose members are named before the deadline they judge, not after.
Scores submitted to the open call are read blind and are not retained. Delegate and ticket data is held only for the edition it was bought for. We do not sell it, share it, or use it to advertise anything.
The festival is held in three publicly owned or publicly accessible halls in Prague. Access requirements for each are listed on that venue’s page; if something there is wrong or missing, the box office address above reaches a person who can fix it.
Every edition since 2019
Photo
Eight years of load-ins, rehearsals and last nights. Photographed by whoever was closest to a camera.
Previous editions
Archive
Every edition keeps its own site, exactly as it was left. Nothing has been tidied up or taken down.
- Composers Summit 2026Nine premieres, and the year the late sessions started.
- Composers Summit 2025First year at Forum Karlín.
- Composers Summit 2024The open call opened to entries from anywhere.
- Composers Summit 2023Programme only — the site was rebuilt after.
- Composers Summit 2022Held in one hall, on half the budget.
- Composers Summit 2021Online edition. Every session is still watchable.
- Composers Summit 2020Cancelled in March. The commissions were paid anyway.
- Composers Summit 2019The first edition, three days and forty people.












