Peter Machajdik is working on a sound installation WATERS AND CAGES. It will be showed at the Slovak National Gallery in 2012.

Peter Machajdik is scoring THE COMEBACK OF THE LYNXES, a new film and scientific project of Tomáš Hulík and Miloš Majda. The soundtrack will also include CATS ALIVE, a collaboration with Jon Anderson, who supplied lyrics and vocals.

Machajdik's ON THE SEVEN COLORS OF LIGHT is scheduled to be recorded by Carson Cooman this summer. It will appear on a CD along with a large organ work by the American composer Patricia Van Ness.

Machajdik's INNER COLLECTION for cello and Quasars Ensemble was premiered at Bratislava Music Festival on 3 December 2009. Dancer Daniel Raček appeared as special guest.

Jon Anderson and Peter Machajdik performed together at TRIBUTE TO FREEDOM on the Castle Devin near Bratislava, Slovakia on 15 August 2009.

The first performance of Machajdik's CONCERTO FOR TWO BAYANS AND ORCHESTRA with AccoDuo and Aleksander Gref conducting the Symphony Orchestra of the Pomeranian Philharmonic took place in Bydgoszcz, Poland on 4 June 2009.

In August 2008 musica slovaca released a new CD of chamber music by Peter Machajdik. The album, entitled NAMAH [SF 00542131] includes works such as NELL'AUTUNNO DEL SUO ABBRACCIO INSONNE, NAMAH, OBSCURED TEMPTATIONS, SADNESS OF FLOWING as well as a five minute homage to the avant-garde composer and pioneer of electronic music Karlheinz Stockhausen, who passed away in December 2007. Included among the interpreters are the singer Jon Anderson from the legendary progressive rock band Yes, harp wiz Floraleda Sacchi, clarinet virtuoso Guido Arbonelli, winner of twelve international interpreter´s competitions, extreme vocalist & drummer David Moss, who ranks as godfather of noise music, cimbalom player Eniko Ginzery and other excellent musicians. The CD album NAMAH is available by e-mailing Machajdik´s Management at bluedeepmusic (at) online.de.
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Machajdik's ON THE SEVEN COLORS OF LIGHT for organ was premiered by Carson Cooman at the Adolphus Busch Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts on April 9, 2009.

Early 2009 Machajdik’s NELL'AUTUNNO DEL SUO ABBRACCIO INSONNE was released on Floraleda Sacchi´s Decca CD MINIMAL HARP. The record also includes works by Philip Glass, Arvo Pärt, Henry Cowell, Gyorgy Ligeti, Lou Harrison, John Cage, and Michael Nyman.

Peter Machajdik's string quartet AGAIN SO CLOSE TO THE RAINBOW has been given the 2006 Jan Levoslav Bella Prize, the most significant music award in Slovakia. The work, which is around twelve minutes in length, was premiered by the Zwiebel Quartet at the Slovak Radio Concert Hall in Bratislava in May 2005. The score of AGAIN SO CLOSE TO THE RAINBOW is available from MUSICA SLOVACA via musicaslovaca@hf.sk.

Peter Machajdík wrote the score for the documentary film "4 Schüler gegen Stalin" by Hanno Brühl and Steffen Lüddemann. The film has recently been shown on the German TV channels MDR, WDR, arte, and Phoenix. Some of the music from "4 Schüler gegen Stalin" has recently been released on Machajdík's CD, entitled FILM [Edition Hudba N81 0005 2 331].

Pianist Marvin Rosen performed Peter Machajdik's OBSCURED TEMPTATIONS at Westminster Conservatory on 26 April 2006. Marvin's radio programme "Classical Discoveries" has won the ASCAP Deems Taylor Radio Broadcast Award for 2005. In the last few years the programme has regularly featured works by Machajdik such as NAMAH, FLOWING INTO THE UNKNOWN, OBSCURED TEMPATIONS, SOLSTICE, and DESERTED TRACKS.

The major exhibition "Gustav Szathmary - A Life For Paula" on the life and work of the Hungarian composer Gustav Szathmary was showed at the Paula Modersohn Becker Museum in Bremen, Germany in March 2005.
Included in the material were many rare photographs, a short film about the composer, and original scores. Gustav Szathmary was the lover of the famous German painter Paula Modersohn-Becker. Paula Modersohn-Becker and her husband Otto Modersohn, who was also a well-known painter, were both friends of the poet Rainer-Maria Rilke. In the early 20th century all four were living in the village of Worpswede near Bremen in North Germany. However, Gustav Szathmary is really a fiction, a make-believe character whose whole story was created by German visual artist Dirk Hennig, and Gustav Szathmary's nine piano sonatas were, in fact, created by Peter Machajdik.
GUSTAV SZATHMÁRY: PIANO SONATAS
[EH N81 0004 2 131]
Music for the project about Hungarian composer Gustav Szathmáry, the lover of the famous German painter Paula Modersohn-Becker.