Aleksandra Gryka

born in 1977 in Warsaw, she studied the piano at the Kurpiński State Primary Music School (1985–90) and then at the Chopin Secon-dary Music School (diploma with distinction in 1997). In 1998–2003 she studied composition with Krystyna Moszumańska-Nazar at the Music Academy in Kraków. In 1999 she commenced a parallel course in computer music in the class of Magdalena Długosz. She participated in several international courses for composers organized under the auspices of new music centres ircam/acanthes in Kraków and Helsinki (2000), in Buckow (Germany, 2001), as well as in the Internationale Sommer Akademie Prag–Wien–Budapest (2002). In 2003 she stayed in the United States within the framework of a student exchange programme between Central Washington University and the Music Academy in Kraków.
She won First Prize at the ‘EuroArt Meeting’ Composers’ Compe-tition in Wrocław for her piece High3bbing.Nor (April 2000). In 2004 she was nominated for the ‘Passport’ award of the ‘Polityka’ weekly.
Her works have been performed in Poland (including the ‘Warsaw Autumn’ in 2001 and 2003) and in Holland, Germany and Slovakia.

Selected works: for d. for piano solo (1999), lien-al for cello, harpsichord and accordion (2000), High3bbing.Nor for orchestra (2000), interioryzacion for computer (2000), oxygen nr.369,1 for tape and piano (2001), NonStopping center for harpsichord solo (2001), (1”) exists as…(-1”) for flute, accordion, percussion, piano and cello (2001), Project ien for tape, video and dancer (2002), ‘+’ for chamber orchestra (2003), konstrunity 0100 for mixed choir (2004).

konstrunity 0100 was written in 2004 for the ensemble Musicatreize.