Aleksandra Gryka

Born in 1977 in Warsaw, she started to play the piano at the age of six. In 1997 she graduated from the Frederic Chopin Secondary Music School in Warsaw. A year later she began her composition studies at the Music Academy in Kraków (with Krystyna MoszumaYska-Nazar). In 1999 she commenced a parallel course in computer music in the class of Magdalena D1ugosz. She won First Prize at the OEuroArtMeeting1 Composers1 Competition in Wroc1aw for her piece High3bbingNor for symphony orchestra (April 2000). In the summer of 2000 she participated in composition courses organised by ircam/acanthes in Kraków and Helsinki.
In 2001 she made her debut at the OWarsaw Autumn1 Festival with the piece oxygen nr.369,1 for tape and piano. In 2002 she participated in the summer workshops for composers in Reichenau in Austria, and from September to December 2002 she stayed in the United States
within the framework of a student exchange programme between Central Washington University and the Academy of Music in Kraków.

Selected works: for d. for piano solo (1999), lien-al for cello, harpsichord and accordion (2000), High3bbingNor for orchestra (2000), interioryzacion for computer (2000), oxygen nr.369,1 for tape and piano (2001), NonStopping center for harpsichord solo (2001), (12) exists asŠ(-12) for flute, accordion, percussion, piano and cello (2001), Project ien for tape, video and dancer (2002).

The piece (12) exists as...(-12) was written in May 2001. The premiere took place during the composers1s summer courses in Germany (September 2001).
It tells about things which cannot happen because their existence is determined by non-existence...
Aleksandra Gryka

Interialcell was composed in 2003. The work was commissioned by the Warsaw Autumn Friend1s Foundation and financed with funds from the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, Munich.