Zygmunt Konieczny
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Zygmunt Konieczny

(*1937)

Composer, pianist and arranger linked with the Piwnica pod Baranami cabaret. His oeuvre includes mainly vocal and instrumental works – he is the author of an original singing concept, according to which it is music that brings out and interprets the codes embedded in the lyrics, eliciting emotions and creating new meanings. Konieczny has written incidental music to more than a hundred films and theater performances. (AM)

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Frater Polish-Lithuanian multimedial suite for consort of 4 violas da gamba, saxophone, computer synthesizer (or piano) and voice Hommage à Lutosławski, for the 100-th anniversary of the composer's birth

year of composition: 2013
duration of the piece: 70'
genre: chamber (from 2 to 9 performers)
language version: PL/LTU/LAT
programme edition: 2012/13
commission: Fundacja f.o.r.t.e.
materials accessible until: 25 September 2017
recording accessible until: indefinitely

composer / composers:

Vytautas Germanavičius
Anthony Oscar Milosz
Zygmunt Konieczny
Bronius Kutavičius

details:

POLISH-LITHUANIAN MULTIMEDIAL SUITE for consort of 4 violas da gamba, saxophone, computer synthesizer (or piano) and voice “Hommage à Lutosławski”, for the 100-th anniversary of the composer’s birth premiere, held on 9 October 2013 at the Concert Hall in Arsenal in Vilnius.

performers:

Jazdowska Band:
Alina Mleczko, saxophone
Ania Broda, voice, dulcimer
Cezary Duchnowski, synthesizer, computer
Darius Stabinskas, soprano viola da gamba
Mateusz Kowalski, tenor viola da gamba
Robertas Bliskevicius, bass viola da gamba
Justyna Rekść-Raubo, bass viola da gamba, ocarina
Maciej Walczak, visual poetry
Jacek Kołtuniak, sound engineer

Quartet for violas da gamba

year of composition: 2014
duration of the piece: 40'
genre: chamber (from 2 to 9 performers)
programme edition: 2013/14
commission: Centrum Kultury Katowice im. Krystyny Bochenek
materials accessible until: 25 September 2017
recording accessible until: indefinitely

details:

QUARTET FOR VIOLAS DA GAMBA premiere, held on 5 April 2014 at the K. Bochenek Katowice Cultural Centre in Katowice.

performers:

Justyna Lewandowska, voice
Jazdowska Band:
Dariusz Stabinskas, treble viola da gamba
Mateusz Kowalski, tenor viola da gamba
Paweł Zalewski, bass viola da gamba
Justyna Rekść-Raubo, bass viola da gamba