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born in Białystok in 1961, she is a Polish-Dutch
composer. She studied composition with Włodzimierz Kotoński at the Warsaw
Academy of Music (1980–86) and with Louis Andriessen at the Royal
Conservatory in The Hague (1986–88). She participated in the Summer
Courses in Darmstadt and in composers’ courses organized by the Polish
Society for Contemporary Music. Since 1989 she has worked as a free-lance
composer, realizing numerous commissions and grants, as well as lecturing in
various conservatories and music institutions. In 1990 she was a guest
composer at the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst in Berlin. In 1998
she lectured at three universities in Los Angeles. In 1999–2000 she
was ‘composer-in-residence’ with the Het Gelders Orkest in
Holland. In November 2000 Deutschlandfunk in Cologne organized a concert
devoted entirely to Kulenty’s music. It was recorded on the cd
‘Arcs & Circles’. In 2004 she lectured during the
‘Other Minds 10’ Festival in San Francisco. In 2003 her Concerto
for Trumpet and Orchestra gained the highest score at the 50th unesco
International Composers’ Rostrum. Her honours also include Second
Prizes at the European Young Composers’ Competition for Ad unum (1995)
and at the Young Composers’ Competition of the Polish Composers’
Union for Ride (1987) as well as the Stanisław Wyspiański Award for Young
Artists (1987). Several of her pieces won awards in the competitions
organized by the Warsaw Branch of the Polish Composers’ Union: Quinto
(First Prize, 1986), Breathe (First Prize, 1987), Cannon (Third Prize,
1988), aaa Tre (Second Prize, 1989). She has been a member of juries for the
Münchener Biennale (1995), the International Gaudeamus Music Week in
Amsterdam (2002) and the 9th Kazimierz Serocki International Composers’
Competition in Warsaw (2004). She has also been invited to the jury of the
6th International New Chamber Opera Competition ‘Orpheus-Luciano Berio
2003-04’.
Selected works: String Quartet No. 1 (1984), Ad unum for orchestra (1985),
Sesto for solo piano (1985), Parable on Grain, monodrama to
a text by Sylvia Plath for alto, flute, violin, double bass, percussion and
tape (1985), Quattro for chamber orchestra (1986), Arci for solo percussion
(1986), Symphony No. 1 (1986), Quinto for two pianos (1986), Ride for six
percussionists (1987), Symphony No. 2 for choir and orchestra (1987),
Breathe for string orchestra (1987), Arcus for three percussionists (1988),
Cannon for violin and piano (1988), aaa Tre for viola, cello and double bass
(1988), One by One for marimba (1988), Perpetuus for chamber orchestra
(1989), Trigon for chamber orchestra (1989), Piano Concerto No. 1 for piano
and chamber orchestra (1990), String Quartet No. 2 (1990), Piano Concerto
No. 2 for two pianos and orchestra (1991), Air for chamber orchestra (1991),
E for E for solo harpsichord (1991), Violin Concerto No. 1 for violin with
delay and chamber orchestra (1992), Passacaglia for chamber orchestra
(1992), Cadenza for solo violin with delay (1992), Violin Concerto No. 1,
version for violin with delay and symphony orchestra (1993), Still Life with
Cello for solo cello (1993), Sinequan for solo cello (1993), A Cradle Song
for violin, cello and piano (1993), Lysanxia for gamelan and tape (1993),
Fourth Circle for cello (or violin or viola) and piano (1994), Sinequan
Forte A for cello with delay and symphony orchestra (1994), Sinequan Forte B
for cello with delay and chamber orchestra (1994), Fifth Circle for solo
alto flute with delay (1994), Sixth Circle for trumpet and piano (1995),
Going Up 1 for violin and double-bass (1995), Going Up 2 for chamber
ensemble (1995), The Mother of the Black Winged Dreams, opera (1996), Violin
Concerto No. 2 (1996), Third Circle for solo piano (1996), Sierra for violin
and cello (1996), Blattinus for saxophone quartet (1996), Certus for chamber
orchestra (1997), Elfen, ballet music for chamber orchestra (1997), Waiting
for... for piano and voice (1997), Part One for symphony orchestra (first
movement of the Third Symphony, 1997–98), Stretto for flute, clarinet,
cello and guitar (1998), Rapidus for saxophone quartet (1998), Harmonium for
harmonium solo (1999), mm-blues for two pianos and two percussions (1999),
Decimo for choir, six voices (2002), Symphony No. 3 (2000), Drive Blues for
piano (2000), Flute Concerto No. 1 (2001), Asjaawaa for mezzo-soprano, flute,
harp, piano and electronics (2001), Crossing Lines for violin, clarinet,
piano (2001), Trumpet Concerto (2002), Hoffmanniana, opera in two acts
(2003), Piano Concerto No.3 (2003), Rainbow 3 for piano and two wind
instruments (2003), Mezzo Tango for brass ensemble (2004), Postcard from
Europe for ensemble (2004).
Rainbow 3 for piano and two wind instruments is based on
the first
16 harmonics of the string a. The figure ‘3’ in the title
denotes the number of instruments. The piece can be performed by various
combinations of wind instruments, such as trumpet/trombone, flute/bassoon or
clarinet/bass clarinet.
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