2023
10. 11. 2023: Letters From Sounds – joint concert with Oskar Török & Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra
24. 10. 2023: MEZI ŽÁNRY & PKF
Composer’s concert with pieces performed by the PKF Prague Philharmonia
12. – 15. 10. 2023: SIGNAL FESTIVAL – Joint sound installation with Jan Trojan and concerts with Oskar Török, Offscreen Trio (Ivan Boreš & Jan Trojan) and Jiří Hodina singing Gregorian chant. Come to join this new version of the popular intermedia festival (Kostel U Salvátora, sound installation every day 18:00 – 0:00, live performances 20 – 22 )
29. 8. 2023, Ostrava Days, Spiritual and Empiric II.
Načálo Polunoščnici – new oratorio type composition for solos, chamber ensemble, chamber choir, organ and electronics. Premiere Ostrava Days Aug 19, 2023
Divadlo Viola uvádí po úspěšné premiéře diavedlní hru Roberta Sedláčka Adina Mandová & Hugo Haas. Klára Cibulková a Jaromír Dulava jsou skvělí!
13. 6. 2023, 20:00, Dominikánská 8: Letters From Sounds inside the monastery ambitus
1. 6. 2023, 20:00: International Shakuhachi Festival Prague. Škrábanice / Scribble joins shakuhachi (by Marek Kimey Matvija)
27. 3. 2023, 19:30: Spectaculare 2023 – Rataj / Török, Palác Akropolis (support for Chloé & Vassilena Serafimova)
2022
5. 10. 2022: JazzDock Praha – Rataj & Török
24. 9. 2022 – křest alba LETTERS FROM SOUNDS, Rataj & Török, Space X Festival, Praha
15. 9. 2022 Vernisáž intermediální výstavy ZLÍNSKÁ ZRCADLA / MIRRORS OF ZLÍN
19. 8. 2022 – Rataj – Török: festival Dobršská brána
4. 8. 2022: Rataj – Török – Jihočeský jazzový festival
6. 7. 2022: MIXTUR Festival Barcelona – premiera FLOATING pro flétnu a live electronics, Jaume Daubra Fa
4. 7. 2022 KVIFF Karlovy Vary – premiere of the Barcarole movie by Igor Chemla.
23. 6. 2022: Impro set Matthew Goodheart – Michal Rataj, Hybrid Sessions #21
27. 5. 2022 – Rataj – Török: Letovice, festival BiGiFest
2O. 5. 2022 – MOVIS – concert for piano and large orchestra (Ivo Kahánek, David Robertson, Prague Spring Festival)
21. 4. 2022 – Rataj – Török: A4 Bratislava (as part of the sound & space workshop at the VŠMU School Of Arts)
19. 4. 2022 – PROMLČENO movie premiere (Roden, Cibulková, Bareš, Bočková) …
Soundtrack by the HORNSCAPE project
4. 4. 2022 – Rataj – Török: Palác Akropolis Jazz Club
2021
:: 25. 8. 2021: MUSIC FROM NOTHING – premiere, Brno Contemporary Orchestra, cond. by Pavel Šnajdr, Ostrava Days 2021
2020
:: Advent calendar for ears – new sounds / composers every other day … join now !
:: Oct 30, 2020, live at Ji.hlava International documentary film festival
:: Aug 29, 2020, NODO festival 2020, Ostrava, CZ
Aphasia Studies – new music theatre piece for the NODO festival produced together with librettist and stage director Katharina Schmitt. Featuring mezzo-soprano Katalyin Karolyi as well as great Slowak cello player Andrej Gál and Tiburtina Ensemble.
2019
:: Aug 25, 2019. World premiere of MOVIS for piano solo and large orchestra.
Ostrava Days Festival, Daan Vandewalle – piano, Bruno Ferrandis – conductor
:: June 23, 2019, Punctum, Krásova 27, Praha 3
Ariadne [US] + Michal Rataj, Ivan Boreš a Jan Trojan
:: Mai 5, 2019: Spotless Mind for piano solo at the World Music Days in Tallin.
:: March 23, 2019, Galerie Kub, Leipzig: Škrábanice / Scribble with Jaromír Typlt at the Lepzig Book Fair
2018
:: 11. 12. 2018, Studio hrdinů, Praha: Molyneux Problem. Theatre show by Katharina Schmitt with my music – theatre re-visited …
:: 30. 11. 2018, Studio 1, Bratislava: SONATA (almost quiet) – Slowak premiere of the piece performed by Magdalena Bajuszová.
:: 23. 11. 2018, Atrium Žižkov, Praha: SONATA (almost quiet) – world premiere of the solo piano piece, performed by the amazing Magdalena Bajuszová.
:: 1. – 4. 11. 2018 – EIGEN & ART Lab Berlin : Das Molyneux Problem, gallery version of the radio play I composed with Katharina Schmitt in 2017 – exhibited in a trendy Berlin based gallery.
Pivnica / SKLEP – nový film skvělého ruského režiséra Igora Voloshina…,slovenská premiera 13. září 2018 v Bratislavě, česká premiera 15. listopadu 2018 v Praze, Kino Atlas.
:: Jan Palach – feature movie by Evy Kantůrková and Robert Sedláček, first show Aug 21, 2018
:: Mai 31, 2018 – Hejl – Rataj – Tichý – Žárský
Atrium Žižkov, 19.30.
:: Mai 25, 2018: Škrábanice / Scribbles – Long Night of Museums, Náchod, CZ
:: D is for DIVISION – film essay by Davis Simanis with soundtrack by MR.
TEMPORIS has been performed on May 5. – 7., 2018 by great french conductor Bruno Ferrandis as part of the abo-series of Santa Rosa Symphony, California – the cimbalom part performed by Jan Mikušek.
:: Mai 5. – 7., 2018: Temporis – concerto for cymbalom and large orchestra in its US premiere in Santa Rosa Symphony (CA), USA, conducted by Bruno Ferrandis
:: Apr 28, 2018: Long Sentence I. for piano quintet to be performed at the UC Santa Cruz, California, featuring the great Del Sol Quartet and Ben Leeds Carson on piano.
California Tour 2018 ——————-
2017
:: April 29, 2017, 19:30, Atrium na Žižkově, Prague – world premiere.
The Long Sentece I., piano quintet performed by Fama quartet, Magdalena Bajuszova (SK) – piano.
:: April 30. 2017, 17:00, Štúdio 12, Bratislava
The Long Sentece I., piano quintet performed by Fama quartet, Magdalena Bajuszova (SK) – piano.
:: May 20, 2017, time TBA, Prague Microfestival
Škrábanice / Scribbles with Jaromír Typl.
:: May 29, 2017, 20:00 – Prague Spring International festival
Sentenceless Sentence, world premiere of acousmatic composition in multichannel sound diffusion.
:: Jun 23, 2017, 8:30 PM, Bohemia National Hall, New York City
The Long Sentence II. for violin duo and live electronics. World premiere by the String Noise Duo as part of the Prague-New York Effects project.
:: Jun 25, 2017, 8:00 PM, Washington DC, Czech Embassy.
The Long Sentence II. for violin duo and live electronics. Performed by the String Noise Duo as part of the Prague-New York Effects project.
:: Aug 25, 2017, 6.30 PM, Ostrava Days International music festival
The Long Sentence II. for violin duo and live electronics. Czech premiere by the String Noise Duo.
:: Život a doba soudce AK II – hudba k televiznímu seriálu; režie Robert Sedláček, Bohdan Sláma, Petr Marek, Radim Špaček
:: Sep 4, 2017, time TBA, Palác Akropolis, Praha
The Long Sentence II. for violin duo and live electronics. Czech premiere by the String Noise Duo.
:: Sep 5, 2017, time TBA, Palác Akropolis, Praha
Composer’s concert, together with Tomáš Liška, Jindřiv Pavliš and Points-Rataj-Quintet.
2016
Six part TV-series BOHÉMA in progress… to be premiered in January 2017
:: Dec 8, 2016, 7 PM
solo sound performance in Gdansk including Polish premiere of Small Imprints.
:: Dec 6. 2016, 7:30 PM
Running For Breath – world live premiere of a new piano piece performed by Eva Hutyrová.
:: Oct 13, 2016, 6 PM
PostMutArt 2016 festival, Nitra – sound concert with a joint impro by Julius Fujak
:: Nov 23, 2016, 7 PM – POINTS-Rataj Quintet. Jazz Dock, Prague.
New CD launch – Hobzek, Liška, Rataj, Soukup, Török – extraordinary fusion of electronics and contemporary jazz – published by 100Promotion & Šimon Kotek.
Live Video Thanks to Aleš Pavelka for shooting !
:: Sep 13, 2016, Hertz Hall, TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht (ICMC 2016)
Small Imprints – again performed by fantastic Esther Lamneck (US), who premiered the award-winning piece in 2014.
:: Aug 8. 2016, 7 PM
Škrábanice/Scribble at the Ars Poetica 2016
festival.
:: March 26, 2016, 8 PM Speinshart, Germany
Missa Abstracta – sound concert for the Easter visual Intervention by Patrik Hábl.
:: March 13, 2016, Trondheim, Norway
sound concert at the Meta-Morf electronic music festival.
:: March 12, 2016, New York City, Spectrum
– world premiere of the Spotless Mind – new piano piece commissioned by David Kalhous.
:: 25. December 2015, 0:05 – Deutschlandradio Kultur, Klangkusnt
INTERSPACE – my WDR commission rebroadcast at in Berlin …
:: 11. prosince 2015
Small Imprints – pražská premiéra vítězné kompozice z letošní mezinárodní soutěže Musica Nova 2015.
Alfred ve dvoře, 19:00
Na stejném koncertě zazní v Praze poprvé i Winter Shadowy.
:: 28. November 2015
POINTS-Rataj Quintet live at the Žižkov Meets Jazz festival in Prague.
:: 29. October 2015
POINTS-Rataj Quintet – first show of the brand new electro-jazz project – first time in Czech Republic !
Tomáš Hobzek – drums :: Tomáš Liška – doublebas :: Michal Rataj – live electronics :: Luboš Soukup – saxophone, clarinet :: Oskar Török – trumpet
:: 30. + 31. October 2015
Missa Abstracta at the LAB30, Augsburg festival
:: 24. September 2015 – Inter-Spaces at Dominikánská 8, Prague
Audiovisual performance with Patrik Hábl and Vladimír Burian in the yard of the Dominican Monastery in Prague.
:: 23. September 2015, 20:20
Presentation at the Pecha Kucha Night Prague, “Painting Sound”
:: 1. September 2015
Winter Shadowy – Leipzig, Polish Culture Institute
:: Aug 22, 2015 – The Way There. Czech premiere of the multichannel piece commissioned by Tonspur Vienna in 2011 – as part of the Electronic Music Minimarathon, Ostrava Days 2015.
:: Aug 26, 2015 – Temporis. Concerto for cymbalom and large orchestra. World premiere during the Ostrava Days Festival in 2015 performed by Jan Mikušek.
:: Palma Ars Acustica 2015 Honorary mention for Interspace (commissioned by WDR Studio Akustische Kunst) Thanks !
:: Jul 7, 2015 – Škrábanice/Scribbles with Jaromír Typlt at the Šrámkova Sobotka Festival
:: Jun 24, 2015 – Forfest 2015 festival
Sound performance with Ivan Boreš.
:: May 28, 2015 – world premiere of Winter Shadowy – new acousmatic piece with sounds of winter …UferFestival Berlin
:: Jun 11, 2015 – Exposition of New Music multichannel sound performance for Pavilon Z, Brno Trade Center
:: Interspace –
WDR 3 open – Studio Akustische Kunst 
commission
first broadcast: Fri, Apr 3, 2015, 11:05 pm
:: POHYBY (Movings) – TV documentry about inside-wonders on the Earth (Academy of Science)
:: Glass Light – portuguese performance at the Electronic Geographies Festival, Lisbon, Mar 26 – 28, 2015
2014
:: The Czech Century – soundtrack to the TV series by Pavel Kosatík and Robert Sedláček.
:: Sep 26, 2014, 8 PM – Sonic Situations & Sladovna Písek
Sound performance with Ivan Boreš
:: July 17, 2014 Škrábanice / Scribble at the international VS Improvisation festival
:: 6. června 2014 Abrons Arts Center, NYC
World premiere of the Small Imprints for clarinet and live electronics by Esther Lamneck – Electronic Music Festival NYC.
:: Mai 19, 2014 – release concert feat Rataj, Typlt and Tomáš Liška on double ba
ss
New text-sound based CD release with Jaromír Typlt, now available at Polí 5 publishing house.
:: 13. dubna 2014, 20:00 – Ars Acustica Palmarum 2014 – sound liturgical intervention on Palm Sunday, for archive see this link.
2013
:: Musica Nova 2013 award for SPATIALIS
Dec 20, 8pm – Crossing Borders & Crossin Lines
Bay Area Meets Prague – live with Matthew Goodheart and George Cremaschi
Divadlo Kolowrat, Kolowratsky Palac, Ovocny trh 6
produced by Prague Shakespeare Company
Dec 1, 2013, Meeting New Music (Brno, CZ), JAMU, Chamber Hall 20:00. International festival conference on contemporary situation of electroacoustic music (with Janem Trojanem)
Sep 16, 2013, 8 PM, Faculty Of Architecture, Prague
SPATIALIS – world premiere performed by Orchestr BERG & Peter Vrábel
July 9, San Francisco, Center For New Music, 7.30 PM
Writing Machine Solo Performance
Mai 26 – Vienna, AT – St. Ruprecht concert with Ivan Boreš
Mai 16, Ostrava, CZ, Bludný kámen (with Jaromír Typlt)
Dům umění / House of Art, 7 PM
Apr 12 – 13, concert / workshop in Łaźnia, Gdansk, PL
13. února 2013 – KŔEST CD Spectral Shapes, ROXY / NoD
Spectral Shape CD (post) launch, feat: Ivan Boreš, Jaromír Typlt, Ladislav Železný
2012
13. listopadu 2012, Praha, Kostel sv. Vavřince
premiéra nové kompozice pro soubor Konvergence
Odejdi ke světlu pro klarinet, violoncello, kontrabas a bicí
Rozeznění pro Lidice získalo cenu festivalu Next Wave za PROJEKT ROKU
:: Sep 20. – 23, 2012, Košice, Slovakia
SOUND CITY DAYS festival new sound instalation
– watch the concert with Peter Machajdik here
– this was a TV report on the festival
:: 24. dubna 2012
autorský koncert / performance, Studio Tramtárie, Olomouc
prezentace pořadu Radioateliér
:: April 20, 2012, 8 PM
Silence Talking for flute and electronics
(performed by Lenka Kozderková @ Echofluxx Festival 2012)
:: Feb 29, 2012
19:30 – Phonos Fundation, Barcelona
Sound concert with acousmatic music and sound performance
:: Rodina je základ státu
ocenění české filmové kritiky za rok 2011
2011
:: Dec 3, 2011
7 PM, Bohemian National Hall, New York City
Premiere of “Enjoying Small Things”
for piano solo by Patricia Goodson
Fulbright Commission Czech Republic 20th Anniversary concert
in New York City
:: Dec 12, 2011
7 PM, Galerie HAMU, Malostranské nám. 13, Praha 1
Czech Premiere of Enjoying Small Things
piano – Patricia Goodson
Česká televize, neděle 6. 11. ve 20:00
SRÁČI – Bartoška & Plesl v hlavních rolích příjmné detektivní parodie podle scénáře Zdeňka Zapletala a v režii Roberta Sedláčka. Hudbu jsme dělali s Radkem Pastrňákem.
Program ČT zde
Mezinárodní festival dokumentárních filmů JIHLAVA 2011 uvádí
VYMEZENÝ PROSTOR
do hlavní soutěžní kategorie byl vybrán film Hany Železné, ve kterém se nechala inspirovat letošním Pražským Quadrienale. K filmu jsem dělal hudbu celý zvukový design.
Vymezený prostor na MFDF Jihlava
:: Oct 20 – Scribble – sound performance with Jaromír Typlt
Antropotyátr, experimental space MUMIE, Ustí nad Labem, CZ
:: Sep 23 – Composer’s talk at CNMAT, Berkeley (CA)
:: September 17
9:30 PM :: Bohemian Hall @ Czech Center New York
with Michael J. Schumacher
Moving Sounds Festival
(co-organized by Austrian Cultural Forum)
:: Sep 16 – Composer’s talk at the NYU, New York
:: August 27 – Minimarathon of Electronic Music
@ Ostrava Days Of New Music
Gallery of Fine Arts, Ostrava
:: July 13 – Trafačka, Prague – ECHOFLUXX Festival
7 PM – together with Peter Szely (A)
:: June 9, 2011 – MuseumsQuartier Wien
10 years of MuseumsQuartier
TonSpur Commission for the anniversary sound exhibition of
SOUND SKY by Andres Bosshard (CH)
live concert at the opening together with Andres Bosshard
and Lucas Niggli
June 11 – National technical Library, Prague
NIGHT OF MUSEUMS
multichannel sound performance with George Cremaschi, Gino
Robair, Ivan Boreš, Jan Trojan and Ladislav Železný – video by Hana Železná
June 16, 2011 – From Different Points
Školská 28, Praha, 20:00
New music and Media Works by Lawrence Sherr (US), Michal Rataj (CZ), Dan Senn (US), Tomáš Svoboda (CZ-US) and Ivan Boreš (CZ)
March 12, 2011 – Alte Schmiede Wien
concert in a historical place with live electronics together with Peter Machajdik
February 26, 2011: Concert & Composers Talk at Sambata Sonora, Bucharest (RO)
2010
Nov 19, 2010 – Composer´s concert at Contempuls – international festival of contemporary music in Prague
Nov 9, 2010, Brno – JAMU. Solo electroacoustic performance / sound concert. Joint event with MoEns Ensemble – second performance of new commission Ether – Sound – Escape
Nov 8, 2010, Banska Bystrica (SK) – joint performance with Peter Machajdik
Oct 26, 2010 – Prague, HAMU Gallery :: World premiere of Ether – Sound – Escape – new commission by MoEns Ensemble
Sep 23, 2010 – Musica Viva, Lisbon – first show of Wonderland.End / piece for flute, guitar and live electronics performed by Monika Streitova and Pedro Rodrigues
2009
New shakespearean “Much Ado about Nothing” – see some nice shooting-gigs
Musica Nova 2009 Award for the I Am More Vain Than Wind
L’arsenale Competition Winner – Elementary Inside was premiered by L’Arsenale with Mario Caroli in Treviso, Nov 4, 2009 new piece will be premiered in the 2009/2010 season in Treviso, Italy
Grand Prix Marulic :: for Czech Radio production of Büchners Woczek (music, sound composition) :: L’arsenale Competition Winner – new piece will be premiered in the 2009/2010 season in Treviso, Italy
Oct 8, 2009 :: Czech Center Paris :: Memory Of Our Hands – Minds :: concert & sound performance with Lenka Kozderková
Nov 5, 2009 :: Premiere of the Elementary Inside with Mario Caroli and L’arsenale Ensemble
Nov 28, 2009 Sound concert with Jaromír Typlt at AudioArt Festival, Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków, Poland
Honorary mention for Ether-Sound-Escape in the 2nd Sond´Ar-te Composition Competition 2009, Portugal
Aug 23, 2009 :: World premiere of Raining Inside – the new large orchestra piece with piano :: opening concert of the OSTRAVA DAYS festival directed by Roland Kluttig
Composers Interview in the Czech Music Quarterly :: download pdf here
24.6., 20:00 :: koncertní síň Villa-Lobos, Rio de Janeiro, Universidade de Rio de Janeiro. Elementary Me a Monika Duarte-Streitová podruhé:-)
23.6., 20:00, Capela Santa Catarina, Sao Paulo – Brazílie. Recitál Moniky Duarte-Streitové. Premiéra Elementary Me pro flétnu solo (Koncert pořádaný Českým konsulátem v Brazílii)
17. 6. 2009, 19:00 :: autorský koncert Michala Rataje a autorské čtení Jaromíra Typlta :: Školská 28, Praha 1, 19:00
On-line TV :: Česká televize: V hlavní roli Gustáv Husák :: Dokument Roberta Sedláčka a Michala Kubala :: hudba & zvukový design Michal Rataj ::
Memory Of Our Hands & Minds :: koncert – sound performance s Českou premierou skladby Writing Machine :: Lenka Kozderková – flétna :: Michal Rataj – live electronics ::
2008
It’s All Impromptu:: objednávka Švédskho rozhlasu byla vysílána také v Chorvatském rozhlase a Španělském RNE V Madidu
29. června 2008, Forfest, Kroměříž. Autorský koncert na závěrečném koncertu festivalu FORFEST s premiérou nové skladby INVITO napsané pro Scholu Benedictu Pragensis.
Další solisté: Lenka Kozderková – flétna, Štěpán Škoch – saxofon, Vincent Rigot – varhany
http://www.forfest.cz
2007-08 – Fulbright Scholar v Center for New Music And Audio Technologies, UC Berkeley..::.. temporální fotoalbum zde ..::..
..::..14. dubna 2008: světová premiéra tria pro flétnu, housle a klavír The Autumn Story v provedení Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players. Hertz Concert Hall, 20.00, UC Berkeley Capmus.
3. dubna 2008, 20:00 ..::.. Závěrečný autorský koncert z nových skladeb zkomponovaných během pobytu v Berkeley a San Franciscu. Premiéra nové zvukové “live performance” a akusmatické kompozice Machine-Hand-Mind-Memory. CNMAT, 1750 Arch Street Berkeley.
2007
Cena v České kategorii soutěže??e Musica Nova 2007 za skladbu DREAMING LIFE z roku 2007.
Autorský pořad s premiérou nové “SF” radiofonické skladby It’s All Impromptu v pořadu Švédského rozhlasu MONITOR, 16. ledna 2008 ve 21:30 a 17. ledna ve 12:30
17. listopadu se uskutečnila premiéra kompozice Silence Talking ve verzi pro housle a live electronic. Ve Francouzském institutu v Lisabonu ji provedli Lenka Župková a Andre Bartetzki.
University of California San Diego, 9. listopadu 2007 – autorská prezentace ve tride P. Manouryho a M. Pucketta :: Department of Music UCSD ::
Objednávka Švédského rozhlasu na vytvoření nové radiofonické skladby It’s All Impromptu pro pořad současné experimentální rozhlasové tvorby a elektroakustické hudby MONITOR
Fulbright Scholarship – CNMAT, University of California, Berkeley, USA
2006
Objednávka skladby Corde, Lingua, Voce pro Svatováclavské slavnosti 2006 v obsazení chorální schola, saxofon, varhany a elektronika
1. října se uskutečnila premiera skladby “…Of Hidden Voice…” pro alt saxofon a klavír, která vznikla na objednávku saxofonisty Jamese Umbela.
The Pensylvania State University in State College, PA. James Umble – saxofon, Jun Okada – klavír.
Další provedení se uskutečnila 25. října (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan) a 28. října (State University of New York, Potsdam, New York, James Umble & Hannah Gruber).
Cena Ochraného svazu autorského 2005 pro nejúspěšnějšího skladatele vážné hudby do 30 let. Více na www.osa.cz/page4.php
2. místo v soutěži elektroakustických miniatur na festivalu Confluencias (Huelva, Spanělsko) za skladbu “HEARING FIRST“. http://confluencias.org
19. 6. 2006, 19:30 – Mozart deConstructed – nová sound-performance pro klavír a live-electronic u příležitosti vyjádření (anti-)podpory mozartovskému narozeninovému delíriu.
10. dubna 2006 se uskutečnila v podání Pražské komorní filharmonie a za řízení Kaspara Zehndera preméra nové ansámblové kompozice Hearing Heart, která vznikla v roce 2005 na objednávku Francouzského institutu Praze a za technologické podpory GMEM, Marseille. Skladba zazní v abonentní řadě S 2006 “Krása dneška” ve Svandově divadle v Praze.
Musica Nova 2005 – Čestné uznání v kategorii “Ceská kompozice” za skladbu Hearing Heart.