Tématem hudebně divadelního projektu LeavingRoom jsou měnící se vztahy uvnitř globalizované společnosti. Zaměřuje se na posouvání křehké hranice mezi respektováním, akceptováním, adorováním, odmítáním a nenávistí. Poukazuje na radikalizaci prostředí, reflektuje impulsy, které je spouštějí, a čerpá z mediálních obrazů těchto změn. Fragmenty postů, komentářů a zpráv tvoří základ textového a zvukového materiálu skladby. Tyto zlomky odposlechnutých, nahraných a zveřejněných zpráv jsou východiskem pro melodické obrysy, rytmické patterny, hustoty zvukových ploch, vytvářených ze statistických údajů frekvence klíčových slov. Z nich vznikají abstraktní zvukově vizuální objekty, které jsou paralelním obrazem společenských změn. LeavingRoom se nesnaží hodnotit, apelovat, adorovat, vyzdvihovat, ani odsuzovat. Nesnaží se být názorný, ani imperativní. To ponechává na divákovi a jeho vnímání. LeavingRoom je životní ambient, symbolický superprostor stavů, setkávání, odcházení a loučení.

Na projektu se podílejí umělci z Portugalska/Řecka, Slovinska a České republiky, kteří v posledních šesti letech vytvořili několik celovečerních společných multimediálních děl, která byla uvedena na prestižních pódiích v České republice, Slovinsku, Polsku a USA. Jednalo se o opery MarISHA, TiAmo, Sara'smile a I-ME. Tyto kompozice získaly nejvyšší hodnocení a zájem publika. Recenze byly publikovány v hudebních časopisech a online periodikách. Režii a scénickou koncepci LeavingRoom vytvořil slovinský režisér Rocc. Autory hudby a současně interprety představení jsou Dimitris Andrikopoulos, Hana Hána, Ivo Medek, Sára Medková a Vít Zouhar. Video performanci vytváří Lukáš Medek.

Multimediální představení vzniklo v rámci rezidenčního projektu, který podpořilo Ministerstvo kultury ČR v rámci NPO a Evropská komise.

Světová premiéra se konala 27. září 2024 v Teatro Helena Sá e Costa v Portu. Česká premiéra zazněla na festivalu MusicOlomouc 22. října 2024. Další repríza se uskutečnila na festivalu Setkávání nové hudby Plus v Brně v Divadle Barka 16. listopadu 2024.

The theme of the multimedia composition LeavingRoom is changing relationships within individual relationships and in a globalized society. It focuses on pushing the delicate line between respect, acceptance, adoration, rejection and hatred. It points to the radicalization of the environment, reflects on the impulses that trigger it, and draws on media images of these changes. In relationships, opinions, attitudes and personal preferences. Fragments of posts, comments, messages, form the basis of the textual and audio material of the work. These fragments of intercepted, recorded and published messages are the starting point for melodic outlines, rhythmic patterns, and density of soundscapes, created from statistical data on the frequency of keywords. The work does not try to evaluate, appeal, adore, highlight or condemn. It does not try to be illustrative or imperative. This leaves it up to the viewer and their perception. LeavingRoom is sound-spatial ambience of life, a symbolic superspace of states, meetings, departures and goodbyes.

The project involves artists, from Portugal/Greece, Slovenia and the Czech Republic who have already created several full-length multimedia works in this line-up in the past six years, which have been performed on prestigious stages in the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Poland and U.S.A. These were the operas MarISHA, TiAmo, Sara'smile and I-ME. These works received the highest ratings and interest. Reviews of these works were published in music journals and online periodicals.

The direction and scenic concept of the LeavingRoom were created by the Slovenian director Rocc. The authors of the music and performers of the performance are Dimitris Andrikopoulos, Hana Hána, Ivo Medek, Sára Medková and Vít Zouhar. The video performance is created by Lukáš Medek.

The multimedia performance is being created as part of a residency project supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic within the NRP and the European Commission. The world premiere took place on September 27, 2024at the Teatro Helena Sá e Costa in Porto, Portugal. The Czech premiere followed at the MusicOlomouc festival on October 22, 2024. The next performance took place at the Encounters of New Music Plus festival in Brno at the Barka Theatre on November 16, 2024.

Dimitris Andrikopoulos (1971), he started taking composition lessons at Rotterdam’s Academy of Music and Dance with K. de Vries. In 2001 he completed his composition studies receiving the Composition Diploma.

As a composer he has collaborated with various ensembles and orchestras such as the Athens State Orchestra, Athens Municipal Orchestra, Orchestra National de Lorraine, Nederlands Ballet Orkest, Theater Group Walpurgis, Dance Studio Arabesque, Ensemble Emanon, Mondriaan Quartet, Duo Pallas & Pallas, Drumming Percussion Group , Jazz Orchestra of Matosinhos, Asko Ensemble, ArtéFacts Ensemble among others, and performers such as Lorenda Ramou, Sergio Carolino, Margriet van Reisen, Nuno Aroso, Fernando Ramos, Lefki Karpodini, Peter Rundel, Jaques Mercier among others.

In May 2002 he won the NOG Young Composer Award (2002) for his work “Violin and Orchestra”, the COMPASS Award (Center for Composition and Associated Studies) of the University of Birmingham (2010) for his work “Metamorphoses I” and the ITEA / Harvey Phillips Award for Excellence in Composition (2012) for his work “Anathema I” for Contrabass Tuba and Bayan.

His works have been presented in Greece, the Netherlands, Portugal, Belgium, France, England, Norway, Germany, the United States, Colombia, Mexico, among others, as a result of orders from various artistic organizations such as the Foundation for Contemporary Music of the Netherlands (Fonds voor de Scheppende Toonkunst), Flanders Festival, 1st Cello Biennale / Proms of Amsterdam, Guimaraes 2012 / European Capital of Culture, Onassis Foundation House of Letters and Arts, among others.

Since September 2004 he has been teaching  Composition and composition related subjects at the Superior School of Music, Arts and Performance, part of the Polytechnic of Porto  (ESMAE-IPP) in Portugal, where he occupied from September 2015 to September 2017 the position of the Director of the Music Department. Since 2013 he is member of the Scientific Council of the ESMAE-IPP.

He is a member of the Research Center for the Study of Sociology and Music Aesthetics (CESEM) of the Nova Universidade in Lisbon with main research lines on Composition, Algorithmic Composition, Electroacoustic Music and the study of the technique of extending the sound of existing musical instruments of Western music through the possibilities which their combination with new technologies offer. In December 2021 he joined the Division of Arts and Humanities of the New York University Abu Dhabi as Visiting Professor.

Ivo Medek, composer, improviser and author of several monographs is a professor of composition at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno, where he held the position of dean and rector. He is the author or co-author of seven operas and more than fifty chamber and orchestral compositions and multimedia projects; many of them have been performed on major stages in Europe, Asia and America by the world's leading performers. He has lectured at more than twenty foreign universities and professional institutions.

Sára Medková She is praised by professional critics primarily for her brilliant technique, thrilling temperament and unusual musicality. In addition to being invited to the famous international Shanghai Spring Music Festival, she debuted at the renowned Murchinson Performing Center in Dallas, Wild Beast in Los Angeles, Music Center in Jerusalem, Central Conservatory in Beijing, BVVA concert series in Madrid and the Royal Academy in Ghent. She is the only Czech pianist to give a solo recital at the prestigious PIANODROM festival in Albania. The successful debut at the Shanghai International Music Week Festival 2015 was described by critics as "art of the highest quality". She is a laureate of several international piano competitions (e.g. Yamaha Competition, Concorso Argento in Italy, International Piano Competition Salerno or J. Suk International Piano Competition). In 2009 and 2012 she received prestigious scholarships from the Czech Music Fund and the Authors' Protection Association Award for the most successful young composer of classical music, and in the same year she was invited to write a compulsory composition for the Rubinstein Piano Competition. A recent success is the prize for the best interpretation of a Czech composer after 1950, which Sára won in 2019 at the International Summer Academy in Reichenau, Austria. She has performed on concert stages in 23 countries in Europe, the USA, Asia and Africa at Shanghai Spring Music Festival, New Music Week, Ciclo conciertos de solistas fundación BBVA, Ohrid Summer Festival, Moravian Autumn, Exposition of New Music, Janáček Brno, Pianodrom, Forfest, PostmutArt, Smetana Days, Meeting New Music Plus, Ad libitum, Audioart, Schemnitiensis, Art ́s Birthday and others. She is a member of Ensemble Marijan and a founding member of the ISHA trio, with whom she recorded the CDs Ancient Stories and Love Stories.

Vít Zouhar (*1966), composer, musicologist and professor at Palacký University in Olomouc. He is the author or co-author of ten operas (L'Arianna, La Dafne, Coronide, Torso, ECHO), more than sixty orchestral and chamber works (Gate of the Sun, Close Encounters of Those Wilde at the Heart, Pinnas columbae), musical games and sound installations (Arcadi, zaHRAda, Tastes, Planina, EUOUA). His music is associated with minimalism and postmodernism. Zouhar is the winner of the Alfréd Radok Award, the NUBERG Award and many other awards. A number of compositions were commissioned (National Theatre in Prague, Prague Spring, Moravian Autumn, Berg Orchestra, Ensemble Damian) and are regularly performed and recorded in Europe and the USA. In 2001, Zouhar co-founded the Different Hearing Program, which focuses on composing in music education. With Jaromír Synek and Jiří Kopecký he published the book Hudební hry jinak (2014) and with Jaromír Synek and Ivo Medek Composing in the classroom: Different Hearing (2014). His theoretical works are focused on the music of the 20th and 21st centuries (Bohuslav Martinů, minimalism, musical postmodernism). From 1992 to 2004 Zouhar worked at the Institute for Electronic Music at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Graz. Since 1992 he has been lecturing at the Department of Music Education of the Faculty of Education of Palacký University in Olomouc. Since 2010 he has been Vice-Rector of Palacký University in Olomouc.

Slovenian-born opera and music theatre stage director, scenic designer, dramaturge, performance artist, opera manager and pedagogue Rocc (*1979 in Ljubljana) studied opera stage directing at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno, Czech Republic, followed up by postgraduate studies in scenography at the Universities of Art and Design in Zurich, Switzerland, and in Offenbach am Main, Germany. He has staged more than 60 different productions in Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Norway, Germany, Italy, Latvia, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Great Britain and Israel. Rocc has a special affinity for contemporary opera and experimental music theatre combining alternative sound, performing and installation arts, new media and site-specific projects. In the 2007/2008 season he held the post of Dramaturge of the Slovenian National Opera in Maribor. The 2008/2009 season saw him as Deputy Artistic Director of the Janáček Opera of the National Theatre in Brno, in 2009-2011 he was Artistic Director of the Janáček Opera. In 2011-2013 he was Artistic Director of the Prague State Opera, which has been affiliated with the National Opera in Prague since 2012. In 2013-2019 he was Artistic Director of the Slovenian National Opera in his hometown Ljubljana. In 2018 Rocc received the Recognition for important works of art, the highest artistic title of the University of Ljubljana, which is equivalent to the scientific title of Doctor of Science. He is also active as a pedagogue of opera stage directing and opera acting and as a member of professional juries.

Lukáš Medek has more than 19 years of professional experience in the field of video games, 3D and 2D graphics, animation, game design, level design, and multimedia performances.

He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno and participated in many multimedia performances in cooperation with Czech and foreign artists, including students and graduates of JAMU and the Faculty of Fine Arts.

Lukáš single-handedly created visuals for 6 published games and cooperated on many others in roles ranging from 3D generalist to Art Director. He currently works as an Art Director in PixelAnt Games Studio and in the independent game studio CBE Software.

He also creates content for multimedia performances, VJ, and teaches 3D graphics. As part of his creative work, he focuses mainly on the creation of interactive videos and VJing for theatrical and multimedia performances (e.g. TASTES, Alice in Bed, MARISHA, TiAmo, Sara’Smile, ...).

Hana Hána (1991) is a Czech flutist, vocalist and performer. She studied flute at the Brno Conservatory and she completed a master's degree at JAMU with Václav Kunt. During her studies, she was accepted into the orchestral academy of the Brno Philharmonic, the academy of the Prague orchestra FOK and became a member of the orchestra of the National Theater in Brno.

She currently works as a flute teacher at the Brno Conservatory, where she is also the guarantor of educational courses for a group of wind instruments. She has performed as a flute and vocal soloist with the Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno, Czech Virtuosi, Moravian Philharmonic Olomouc, the State Chamber Orchestra Žilina, the Moravian Chamber Orchestra, the Police Symphony Orchestra and others.

She regularly performs solo at concerts and festivals in the Czech Republic and abroad (Mikolowskie dni muzyki, Audio Art Krakow, Schemnitiensis, Music Olomouc, Opera Festival, Organ Festival Brno, ForFest, Meeting of New Music Plus, Janáček Brno and others).

She is also a chamber musician (numerous recitals in French Provence) and focuses on multimedia production, combining flute playing, singing, movement and dramatic rendition (collaborating with the ISHA trio and others).

She is engaged in teaching activities (music workshops, music therapy and yoga). She took courses with flutists (P. Bernold, C. Novakova, Peter Verhoyen, J. Bálint, C. Levine, R. Winn and others), singers (Iva Bittová, Ida Kellarová) and improviser David Moss.