Ondřej Kyas

Musical activities

• Baron Obkrokin
• Lunochod
• Nechere
• Hajzli
• U-Musik
• Prvouka
• Cute Kid
• Mucha
• Květy

Major works

Operas for the Ensemble Opera Diversa on Pavel Drábek's librettos

• Pickelhering 1607 aneb Nový Orfeus z Bohemie, a comic chamber opera for 9 singers and an 18-piece orchestra
• Společná smrt milenců v Šinagawě, a half-evening poetic opera for 5 singers and a 10-piece orchestra
• Dýňový démon ve vegetariánské restauraci, a gastronomical Gesamtkunstwerk for 4 solos, a Lucifer, a small kitchen chorus and a chamber orchestra
• Ponava , a poetic opera about the mysterious rivers under our feet
• Čaroděj a jeho sluha, a horror fairytale opera about serving in hell

  A Musical

• Na dno, a chamber musical for a graduating year at the JAMU

  Plays with Songs and Other Collaborations with Pavel Drábek

• Everyman čili Kdokoli, a radio play by Pavel Drábek with Ondřej Kyas's songs, an adaptation of the late medieval morality play Everyman, commissioned and produced by the Czech Radio 3 Vltava
• Everyman čili Kdokoli, an adapted stage version play for the Ensemble Opera Diversa, directed by Tomáš Studený
• Leviatan, a play by Pavel Drábek, Lizzy Steel and Mark McLaughlin with Ondřej Kyas's songs, inspired by the short stories of Joseph Roth, produced by the Ensemble Opera Diversa, directed by Tomáš Studený
• Nissenův korál, a radio play by Pavel Drábek with songs by Ondřej Kyas, based on the stage play Leviatan, commissioned and produced by the Czech Radio 3 Vltava
• Princ Mucedorus a princezna Amadina, an original radio play by Pavel Drábek with Ondřej Kyas's music, based on the anonymous Elizabethan play Mucedorus ; commissioned and produced by the Czech Radio 2 Dvojka

  Instrumental compositions

• 3 string quartets
• 2 masses: 1. "rhythmic", 2. "sine Gloria"
• Magnificat for pro solos, mixed chorus and string trio
• Magnificat for mixed chorus and string orchestra; premiere recording available on YouTube
• Visions for 2 string quartets
• A triple concerto for flute, clarinet, bassoon and string orchestra
• Prázdné ulice, a fantasy for string orchestra, inspired by Michal Ajvaz's eponymous novel
• Melodie for string orchestra
• Stabat mater for solos, two choruses and a chamber orchestra
• " Chamber Symphony No. 1" for string orchestra and three solo musicians
• Strange Kind of Happiness for piano quintet, commissioned by the Ensemble 10/10

  Orchestrations

• Pavel Haas, Suite for Oboe and Piano, arranged for oboe and string orchestra
• Leoš Janáček, Šárka in a full instrumentation for chamber orchestra
• Pavel Haas, Šarlatán, an instrumentation for chamber orchestra

  Diskography

• Syntezátor ve dnech kdy spím, 2016