Peter Machajdík is a contemporary Slovak composer and sound artist. He grew up in Bratislava

Bratislava

Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia and, with a population of about 431,000, also the country's largest city. Bratislava is in southwestern Slovakia on both banks of the Danube River. Bordering Austria and Hungary, it is the only national capital that borders two independent countries.Bratislava...

, Slovakia

Slovakia

The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...

 and lives in Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

, Germany

Germany

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.

In the 1990s, he took part in seminars with Vinko Globokar

Vinko Globokar

Vinko Globokar is a French avant-garde composer and trombonist of Slovene descent.His work is noted for its use of unconventional and extended techniques, closely allying him to contemporaries Salvatore Sciarrino and Helmut Lachenmann...

, Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Another critic calls him "one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music"...

, Clarence Barlow

Clarence Barlow

Clarence Barlow is a composer of classical and electroacoustic works.-Biography:Barlow was born in Calcutta, a member of the anglophone minority, of British and Portuguese descent...

, Konrad Boehmer

Konrad Boehmer

Konrad Boehmer is a Dutch composer and writer of German birth.Boehmer was born in Berlin. His music reflects his Marxist political agenda, which is made explicit in many of his writings from the late 1960s and 1970s...

, and others.

He has composed music in nearly all genres, including orchestra, band, chorus, chamber music, works for solo instrument, works for piano and organ, as well as liturgical works and hymns. His music is published primarily by Musica Slovaca, and Edition Hudba.

Machajdik's orchestral works have been premiered by the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra, State Philharmonic Orchestra of Košice, Pomeranian Philharmonic, Lugansk Symphony Orchestra, Slovak Chamber Orchestra, Camerata Europea, and many others.

Film credits include Machajdik’s scores for 4 Schüler gegen Stalin (2005), and Miloš and the Lynxes (2010). Machajdik has worked with choreographers and dancers such as Dorothea Rust, Studio tanca, Petra Fornayova, Studio ALT@RT, and others.

Discography

* 1995: THE ReR QUARTERLY © QUARTERLY, ReR Volume 4 No 1 CD - ReR 0401
* 2003: NAMASTE SUITE (Guido Arbonelli) © Mnemes HCD 102
* 2008: NUOVE MUSICE PER TROMBA 6 (Ivano Ascari) © AZ 5005
* 2008: THE HEALING HEATING (R(A)DIO(CUSTICA) SELECTED 2008) © Czech Radio
* 2008: NAMAH © musica slovaca SF 00542131
* 2009: MINIMAL HARP (Floraleda Sacchi) © DECCA / Universal 476 317
* 2011: INSIDE THE TREE (for cello, harp and electronics) © Amadeus Arte Catalogue No. AA11003

On the 2008 CD Namah

Namah

NAMAH is the title of a CD of music by composer Peter Machajdik.CD © 2008 SF 00542131 [Limited Edition]1. She Will Be Picked by Herself...

, Machajdík worked with singer Jon Anderson

Jon Anderson

Jon Anderson is an English singer-songwriter and musician best known as the former lead vocalist in the progressive rock band Yes...

 from Yes

Yes (band)

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, harpist Floraleda Sacchi

Floraleda Sacchi

Floraleda Sacchi is an Italian harpist, composer and musicologist born in Como.-Biography:She studied music in Italy, United States and Canada, with Lisetta Rossi, Alice Giles, Judy Loman, Alice Chalifoux....

, vocalist & drummer David Moss

David Moss (musician)

David Moss is an American composer, percussionist and self-taught vocalist, founder of the David Moss Dense Band; co-founder and artistic director of the Institute for Living Voice, Antwerp...

, clarinet virtuoso Guido Arbonelli, cello player Jozef Lupták, and others.

His name is pronounced [makh-eye-dik]