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The most attractive aspect of the anniversary concerts of Vladimír Godár was the fact that they were interconnected, thus accentuating the mutuality and collaboration in honour of the man who, for his whole life, has been searching for ways to join people under a common goal. While Jozef Lupták, the founder and director of the Konvergencie festival, performed also at the Albrechtina concert on March 18, 2026, the members of Albrechtina association the singer Eva Šušková and guitarist Martin Krajčo appeared also at the Konvergencie concert on March 22, 2026.

The first from Vladimír Godár’s birthday concerts – Vladimír Godár – 70 – took place as part of the Albrechtina cycle (Un)known Music on Wednesday March 18 at 6 pm in the Moyzes Hall of the Faculty of Philosophy of Comenius University. The concert was awesome and all who weren’t present might regret! Godár’s pieces from the first part of his professional life shone mostly in new renditions, but an icing of the cake was the deeply felt performance of Talisman by the trio Peter Hamar, Ján Slávik, Gabriela Hamarová, which had premiered the piece on March 11, 1984! Sonata in Memory of Viktor Shklovsky was beautifully played by Ján Slávik, its original performer from 40 years ago, this time with the flawless accompaniment by Daniela Varínska. Sequence for violin and piano, which was once premiered by the superb violinist Juraj Čižmarovič and pianist Miki Skuta, was today rendered by Juraj Tomka and Magdaléna Bajuszová in a performance which was definitely not worse, sending shivers and passion rarely offered by contemporary Slovak music. Magdaléna Bajuszová mastered also the piece Grave in an extraordinary way, revealing its unexpected outlines horizontally and vertically – resulting in amazing dramaticism and relief. After decades we’ve got an opportunity to listen to Lullabies on lyrics by Jan Skácel in an original instrumental version: performed gorgeously and with grace by Eva Šušková, Ivica Gabrišová, Jozef Lupták and Ivan Šiller. In Autumn Meditation Mucha Quartet demonstrated how many appearances can have just one tone. The quartet members Juraj Tomka, Veronika Kubešová and Pavol Mucha together with Magdaléna Bajuszová opened the whole concert by the composition Ricercar which was written in the time when the tonight performers either were not born yet or were just toddlers. The night culminated with the latest Godár’s piece Songs on lyrics by Tomáš Janovic, again sung by Eva Šušková accompanied by the Bratislava Guitar Quartet (premiered at the Bratislava Music Festival 2025). Although the concert was longer than usual, the satisfied listeners and fans of Vlado Godár’s music in the Moyzes Hall of the Faculty of Philosophy of the Comenius University were applauding enthusiastically both the musicians and the author. 

The event was preceded by the surprise from the FoPh which has awarded the author a Golden Medal of Merit for the Faculty of Philosophy of the Comenius University. The medal was presented by the dean of the FoPhCU Prof. Marián Zouhar, PhD,

We cordially thank all who contributed to this wonderful evening and its fantastic atmosphere!

We are thankful to Jarmila Uhlíková for the photos from the event. 

Konvergencie festival has also prepared a great surprise, have a look: 

Vladimír Godár is a popular composer of music to movies, majority of them directed by his friend the film director Martin Šulík. Kino Lumière joins the celebrations of his milestone birthday with screening the movies with his music, Take a look:

All the details regarding the birthday events can be found on the 

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The exquisite Dutch string quartet Matangi Quartet honoured Vladimír Godár by naming him the residential composer of this year’s Moving Music Festival, the successor of the former Unheard Music Festival, which in the past hosted such leading composers as Valentin Silvestrov, Paweł Szymański and John Psathas. The event was visited by the composer himself. The concert of his music was preceded by the INspired concert presenting the works by Heinrich Biber, Valentin Silvestrov and Alfred Schnittke, thus demonstrating music close to Vladimír Godár’s heart and presenting the possible inspirational basis of his creativity. The INspired concert was followed by an interview with the residential composer of tonight’s event.

The concert took place on January 24, 2026 in the New Church in The Hague. In the first part of the evening Emmeleia was presented in two versions: for piano and for string quartet, Talisman for string trio and Deploration sur la mort de Witold Lutosławski for piano quintet. After the intermission a new piece Largo and Passacaglia for string quartet opened the second part of the concert and the whole night culminated by an impressive fiery performance of Concerto Grosso. In the third movement of the piece the musicians on stage were joined by two dancers, who added another dimension to the spirituality of the whole performance. The choreography was prepared by Thom Stuart with De Dutch Don’t Dance Division.