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born in 1971 in Warsaw, he studied composition with
Marian Borkowski at the Music Academy in Warsaw, gaining a diploma with
distinction in 1996. He was also a postgraduate student of Paul Patterson at
the Royal Academy of Music in London (diploma in 1999). He participated in
the International Courses for Young Composers organized by the Polish
Society for Contemporary Music (1993–97) and in the International
Meetings of Young Composers in Apeldoorn, Holland (1995).
His works have been featured in major festivals including the ‘Warsaw
Autumn’, the Lutosławski Forum in Warsaw, Musica Polonica Nova in
Wrocław, the ‘Gaude Mater’ Festival of Sacred Music in Częstochowa,
AudioArt, the 14th Synthesizer-Musik-Festival in Braunschweig, Musica del
Novocento in Rome, the European Youth Music Festival Copenhagen ’96,
the Park Lane Festival in London, and the World Music Days in Romania. They
have also been recorded for many European radio stations and on many labels
(pwm, dux, zpr Records, Universal Music, Polskie Nagrania Edition, Acte Préalable).
One of the recent cds, featuring String Quartet No. 1 (performed by the dafO
Quartet on the pwm/dux label) won the ‘Fryderyk’ Award of the
Polish Phono-graphic Academy in 2002.
In 2000 his work Lutosławski in memoriam for oboe and piano was selected by
the Associated Board of Royal Schools of Music for the examination programme
in English schools until 2006. His honours also include Second Prize of the
Critics’ Panel at the 2nd Young Composers’ Forum in Kraków
(1994), Second Prize at the 6th Com-petition for Synthesized and Computer
Music (Germany, 1995), Second Prize at the 1st ‘Musica Sacra’
Competition for Young Composers (1995), Third Prize at the
‘Jihlava’ International Com-posers’ Competition (the Czech
Republic, 1996), Third Prize at the National Composers’ Competition in
Gdańsk (1997), the Main Prize in the competition for a multimedia project
organized by the Polish Society for Contemporary Music (1999), the Alan Bush
Composition Prize (Britain, 1999), and the Josiah Parker Composition Prize (Bri-tain,
1999).
He held grants from the Minister of Culture and Art (1995) and the British
Council (1998). In 1994–96 he served as deputy chairman of the Youth
Circle of the Polish Composers’ Union. He was a moderator at the 20th
International Course for Young Composers in Radzie-jowice in 2000 and served
as its director in 2003. He was a member
of the National Jury of the iscm World Music Days (2002, 2004), and of the
Tadeusz Baird and ‘Musica Sacra’ Composers’ Competitions.
In 2002 he was elected deputy president of the Polish Society for
Contemporary Music. He is a member of the Polish Composers’ Union (Board
Member of its Warsaw Branch), the Polish Society for Contemporary Music and
the zaiks Authors’ and Composers’ Association.
Incidental music for the theatre and film music constitute an important part
of his artistic activity.
Selected works: Miniature for string quartet (1989), Concertino for clarinet
and piano (1991), Variations for solo clarinet (1991), Miniatures for
chamber orchestra (1992), Perchoir for mixed choir and percussion
(1992–93), Capriccio for clarinet and piano (1993), Sonata for
accordion (1993), Musica per archi a.d. 1993 (1993), String Quartet No. 1
(1994), Vox Humana for percussion and amplified cello (1994), Alone in a
Crowd ... for alto saxophone and tape (1994), Domine, quis habitabit for
unaccompanied mixed choir (1995), Capriccio for solo violin (1995), Clouds
for tape (1995), Piano Concerto No. 1 (1995), Three Phrases for clarinet,
trombone, cello and piano (1996), Tractus for unaccompanied mixed choir
(1996), Shining for string orchestra (1996), a. for alto saxophone and piano
(1996), Symphony No. 1 (1996), Abruzzo – Imaginary Landscape for
chamber orchestra (1997), Capriccio for chamber orchestra (1998), Lutosławski
in memoriam for oboe and piano (1999), Brass Quintet (1999), Oratio for solo
organ (2000), Fallen Angel for percussion and tape (2003), Sololis for solo
piano (2004).
Fallen Angel was written in 2003, inspired by one of the
famous masks in Notre Dame Cathedral. It is dedicated to Stanisław Skoczyński.
Maciej Zieliński
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