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Born in 1984 in Katowice, she is a student
of composition at the Music Academy in Basle (in the class
of Roland Moser and Hanspeter Kyburz). She has received
grants from the 'Lyra' Foundation and the Zurich-based
Thyll-Dürr Foundation.
Her honours include First Prize at the 2nd 'Patri Patriae'
National Composers' Competition in Katowice for Post
tenebras lux. In 2000 she received the Grand Prix at the 8th
'Crescendo' National Composers' Competition in Tarn-w for
Wind-Oak-Quintet and a year later First Prize and the young
composer's award at the 'Musica Nova 2001' International
Electroacoustic Music Competition in Prague for Raasz II.
Her pieces have been performed at the 5th Students' Music
Forum in Warsaw (2001), last year's 'Warsaw Autumn' Festival
(the concert of the Youth Circle of the Polish Composers'
Union) and the International Music Festival in Brno (2002).
They have also been broadcast on Polish Radio Katowice and 'Vltava'
Radio in the Czech Republic.
Selected works: Post tenebras lux for
chamber ensemble (1998), Exorcisms for bass and orchestra
(1999), Wind-Oak-Quintet for wind quintet (2000),
Satyamangalam for tape (2001), Raasz for soprano and tape
(2001), Luminescence for chamber ensemble (2001), The
Durability of Memory for double-bass (2001).
The Durability of Memory
'Reality can suggest another reality, of
equal value. Everything depends on the interpretative
abilities of the artist and the audience.'
Salvador Dali
The Durability of Memory was inspired by
Salvador Dali's picture of the same title. It depicts a
surrealist landscape in which the only signs of the previous
life are melting clocks, the symbols of passing time.
Part I - of passing time - is an attempt to find out what is
the essence of time and if it is experienced by everyone in
the same way. The quavers imitating the ticking of the clock
are a reference to this theme.
Part II refers to the spirit - the omnipresent living
matter, which is beyond time and consciousness.
Part III illustrates an unreal world, as if taken from
surrealist pictures. The glissandi symbolize the blurring
away of real time.
The whole piece is an attempt to get to the essence of
reality.
The work was written for the outstanding double-bass player
Aleksander Gabry¶, to whom it is dedicated.
Dagmara Jack
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