Miroslav Beinhauer

Miroslav Beinhauer (*1993) as a pianist and six-note harmonium player focuses on contemporary and 20th century music.

He works with composers such as Phill Niblock, Klaus Lang, Bernhard Lang, Georg Friedrich Haas, Marc Sabat or Petr Bakla, participated in festivals in Europe and the USA such as musikprotokoll, Sound Plasma Festival, Strings of Autumn, Ostrava Days, Moravian Autumn, Janáček Brno, Music Forum Hradec Králové, MusicOlomouc, Konvergencie Festival, MicroFest or Gentse Feesten and performed with orchestras and ensembles including PKF – Prague Philharmonia, Brno Philharmonic, Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava, Hradec Králové Philharmonic, Moravian Philharmonic Olomouc, Brno Contemporary Orchestra, S.E.M Ensemble, Ensemble for New Music Tallinn, Kubín Quartet or String Noise. Among his notable performances are Piano Concerto No. 2 by Magnus Lindberg (conductor Heiko Mathias Förster), Piano Concerto "Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes?" by John Adams (conductor Andreas Sebastian Weiser) or Piano Concerto by Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor Marko Ivanović). Beinhauer is also a sought-after chamber player, he is a member of the Ostrava Banda (collaboration with conductors such as Bruno Ferrandis, Johannes Kalitzke, Petr Kotík, Jiří Rožeň or Owen Underhill). In recent years, he participated in several studio recordings, including three CDs with compositions by Petr Bakla and Milan Knížák. He also regularly records for Czech Radio.

Miroslav Beinhauer is the only one in the world who can play Alois Hába's unique six-note harmonium. His interest in this instrument began in 2018 with the premiere of Háb's six-note opera Přijľ kralítų Tvé, and continued with the premiere performance and recording of the only solo opus for this instrument – ​​Six compositions for six-note harmonium op. 37. Since then, a new repertoire for the six-note harmonium has been created - in 2021, 9 new compositions by composers such as Klaus Lang, Marc Sabat, Georg Friedrich Haas, Arash Yazdani etc. were presented in the premieres.