„Kwartludium” / Walczak
Thursday 7 November
8.00 PM
MCK
(Sanok / Gdańsk)
Kwartludium/Walczak - graphic scores
Kwartludium ensemble was founded in 2002 and is composed of alumni of three Music Academies - Warsaw, Bydgoszcz and Gdańsk. The name derives from the first piece by Bartosz Kowalski-Banasewicz written for the ensemble to perform. The project itself derived from the cooperation with Carl Bergstrom Nielsen who is a Danish graphic scores composer. The result of this cooperation was a series of concerts that took place in Copenhagen in 2011. In November 2012 Kwartludium recorded an album consisting of graphic music of Polish and Danish composers of the 21st century. The album contains piece of such composers as Jerzy Kornowicz, Krzysztof Knittel, Sławomir Wojciechowki, Aleksandra Gryka, Dariusz Przybylski, Carl Bergstrom Nielsen, Henrik E. Rasmussen and Regin Petersen. At this occassion the ensemble cooperated with a prominent sound art Robin Rimbaud a.k.a. Scanner. Maciej Walczak is responsible for the visual side of the project. He uses his own programs and a projector to process the graphic scores into visuals. An important part of the ensemble's activity is contemporary improvised music. Kwartludium has performed graphic and intuitive compositions of some of the most prominent characters of new music such as Karlheinz Stockhausen, Carl Bergstrom Nielsen, Roman Haubenstock Ramati, Cornelius Cardew, and Dubrovko Detoni. This year the musicians are planning to release an album called 'Kwartludium Jacaszek' containing the music of Olivier Messiaen. The album's premiere is scheduled for October 2013 during the Unsound Festival in Kraków.
Dagna Sadkowska – violin
Michał Górczyński – clarinet, bass clarinet
Paweł Nowicki – percussion
Piotr Nowicki – grand piano
Maciej Walczak – visuals
Dagna Sadkowska
She graduated form Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw lead by professor Krzysztof Bąkowski. She participated in master courses in Lancut (prof. Marina Jaszwili's class), in Glucholazy (prof. Tomasz Tomaszewski's class), she also twice held scholarship in chamber music courses in St. Johann (Austria) in the violin class of prof. Christos Polyzoides and prof. Martin Tuksa. Dagna Sadkowska specialises in performing contemporary music. She has performed many works by Polish contemporary composers.She uses her experience as a musician in her work with children. She is the author of curriculum of music and music therapy for primary and grammar school. Since her stay at Sibelius Academy in Helsinki in 2000 she has been cooperating with professor Kaija Saarikettu who specialises in contemporary Finnish violin literature. She performed druing the Contemporary Music Festival 'Warsaw Autumn'. She regularly takes part in the Polish Student Musical Forum as a concertmaster of the Chamber Orchestra conducted by Milosz Bambinow. Since 2000 she has been cooperating with Mała Filharmonia Chamber Orchestra conducted by Marcin Niesiołowski.
Piotr Nowicki
He graduated from Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in the class of professor Włodzimierz Wiesztordt. In 1995 he started working at his alma mater as a pianist – repetiteur. In 2008 he earned the PhD on the Faculty of Instrumental Studies, where he currently teaches introduction to contemporary music. He perfected his skills under direction of such tutors as Tadeusz Kerner, Sergey Senkov, Igor Lazko, Siemion Balshem, Christine Paraschos, Homero Francesch. His interest is piano and chamber music of the second half of the 20th century as well as new music. He performed works of John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Cornelius Cardew, Georg Crumb, Witold Lutosławski and Bernhard Lang. In duo with Karolina Piątkowska he performs chamber repertoire from classicism to contemporary music. The duet gave recital performances during Max Reger Tage festival in Weiden, Germany. In 2003 in a duo with Paweł Nowicki he represented the city of Gdańsk in Kiel, Germany within TransCity project. In 2003 he performed pieces of a young composer Marek Czerniewicz in Tallinn, Estonia. Since 2002 he has been a member of Kwartludium ensemble. In 2008 the ensemble recorded its debut album which was released by the record label DUX. He cooperated with the director and singer Andre Hübner-Ochodlo with whom he performed recitals of Jewish songs and recorded music for Atelier Theatre performances.
Paweł Nowicki
He graduated from the Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz lead by prof. Grzegorz Jurczyk and Music Conservatory in Strasbourg in Emmanuel Sejourne’s class. He was rewarded in the international contemporary music competitions such as Gaudeamus in Rotterdam 1999 and Clarment-Ferrand 1999. He has lead music workshops in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Luxemburg. Participated in music session of the Wind Youth Orchestra of European Union conducted by Jan Kober in Portugal, Italy, Luxemburg and Germany. He performs both classical and contemporary compositions by Ianis Xenakis, Franco Donatoni, Henze, David Lang, Emannuel Sejourne, Francois-Bernard Mache, Martin Wesley-Smith, Phillip Hurel, Davida Karagianis. He played solo concerts in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Luxemburg, as well as with Antoine Cure in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Strasbourg, with Percussion Ensemble Mainz in Music Conservatory in Mainz, in Strasbourg Philharmonic. He participated in a multimedia performance in St. John’s Church in Leipzig together with Mazzoll Diffusion quartet. In a duo with Piotr Nowicki he performs works of contemporary composers. He also cooperated with Pink Freud quartet and Ecstasy Project. He is currently a member of an alternative rock band Kobiety, which in 2007 was nominated for “Paszport Polityki” award in category of pop music. He performed in Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Italy, France, Portugal, Luxembourg, Russia, Ukraine, Holland, Finland, United States, UK.
Michał Górczyński
He graduated from the Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw. Since 1998 he has been composing music for various casts 'Zróżnicowanie' ('Differentiation') for two bassoons and clarinet, 'Rondo à la krakowiak' for screaming pianist and bass clarinet, 'Malowanie' ('Painting') for two clarinets, bassoon, double bass and singing, 'Suite in Jewish style' for clarinet, violin and double bass, cycles of compositions inspired by the languages of the world for violin, clarinet and cello, and music for drama and puppet theaters. His creative projects include installations, writing theoretical texts on the subject of authorial theories, radio plays and underground films. He is actively involved in improvisation and interpretation of contemporary music. He has appeared as a soloist with such ensembles as de Ereprijs, Silesian Quartet, Aukso Orchestra, Podlasie Philharmonic, Szczecin Philharmonic. He has participated in the International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt, where he presented his authorial performance techniques on bass clarinet. He has been a co-founder and a member of the Kwartludium ensemble. Since 2008 he has been working on further expansion of the sound possibilities of the bass clarinet, taking inspiration from the beatbox and collaborating with one of the best Polish beat boxers Patryk TikTak Matela.
Maciej Walczak
He is an audiovisual instrumentalist, a composer and a programist. He studied cello on the Academy of Music in Łódź and on Staatliche Hochschule fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Stuttgart. He writes his own computer programs for his multimedia shows. He is especially interested in the world of phenomena occuring on the common grounds of sound and visuals, algorithms and their interaction with human beings. His first public audiovisual presentation took place in Łódź in1988. Since then he took part in many concerts in Poland and abroad.