Berg Orchestra (Czech: Orchestr Berg),[1] initially formed as a group of like-minded music students in 1995 and officially founded in 2001 by Slovak conductor Peter Vrábel,[2] is a professional orchestra in Prague, Czech Republic whose stated objective is "to constantly search for inspiration and accommodate new impulses from every sphere of contemporary life.
International composers with whom the orchestra has closely worked include Heiner Goebbels,[6][7][8] Fausto Romitelli,[9] Lera Auerbach[2] and many others, along with such renowned Czech figures as Marek Kopelent[4] and Martin Klusák [cs].
[11] In 2009, at the Spanish Synagogue in Prague, Berg premiered Jan Dušek's incidental music for E. Mason Hopper's 1922 silent film Hungry Hearts.
[12] featuring a live recording of Berg Orchestra premiering Jan Dušek's incidental music, official website.
The jury consists of distinguished figures from the international contemporary music world who, according to Vrábel, are entirely from outside the Czech Republic, and not only for the objectivity they provide.