Ryszard Szeremeta

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Ryszard Szeremeta in 2006

Ryszard Szeremeta (born May 5, 1952 in Krakow ) is a Polish composer , conductor and jazz singer .

Act

Szeremeta studied composition with Lucjan Kaszycki (1971–75), conducting with Jerzy Katlewicz (1972–75) and electronic music with Józef Patkowski (1974–76) at the Kraków Music Academy . More teachers were Zbigniew Bujarski , Mieczysław Drobner , Elżbieta Dziębowska , Aleksander Frączkiewicz , Zbigniew Jeżewski , Tadeusz Machl , Krzysztof Meyer , Krystyna Moszumanska-Nazar , Józef Rychlik , Boguslaw Schaeffer , Marek Stachowski , Jacek Targosz and Mieczyslaw Tomaszewski . In 1982 he completed his postgraduate studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London with Alfred Nieman and Robert Saxon , and in 1986 he perfected his knowledge of computer music in the Stockholm electronic music studio with Lars Gunnar Bodin and Tamas Ungvary .

Szeremeta made his debut as a composer with the graphic score Tygodniówka , which was premiered in 1971 by the jazz rock group Laboratorium around Janusz Grzywacz . From 1976 until its dissolution in 1985, he was a baritone member of the jazz vocalist quartet Novi Singers (with Ewa Wanat , Waldemar Parzyński and Janusz Mych ), with whom he worked in Poland and abroad (including at the Jazz Jamboree in Warsaw and at the Montreux Jazz Festival ) and for which he arranged Polish folk music, Christmas carols and Chopin's mazurkas. In 2001 the group came together again to perform at the Warsaw Autumn .

Szeremeta has been associated with the Warsaw Autumn since his debut with the play Advocatus Diaboli , where he premiered nine of his works. Furthermore, from 1985 to 1998 he headed the Experimental Studio of the Polish Radio and worked with the Radio Jazz Orchestra led by Andrzej Trzaskowski . Since 1990 he has also composed for film and television (ARD, ZDF, SDF, Arte, 3 Sat). In the 1990s he was a member of the Warsaw Autumn Repertoire Committee and was Vice President of the Polish Composers' Union .

Prizes and awards

Szeremeta has received numerous awards, including the Grand Prize at the Tadeusz Baird Competition for Young Composers (1977), the prize at the Polish Radio Competition (1979), prizes at competitions for electroacoustic music in Bourges (1981), Varèse (1984) and Oslo (1989), the Henryk Wars Prize of the artists' association ZAiKS and the European Radio Union Tribunal in Budapest (1995).

Works

  • Wzytki Płacze for choir and percussion based on texts by Jan Kochanowski (1975)
  • Suita Kreacje for vocal quartet and instrumental ensemble (1978)
  • Capricorn for harpsichord (1979)
  • Excitation for tenor, vocal quartet, piano, percussion and bass (1979)
  • On a slow fire for vocal quartet and instrumental ensemble (1979)
  • Marry go round for vocal quartet and instrumental ensemble (1979)
  • The Sleeping Beauty for vocal ensemble (1979)
  • Advocatus diaboli for large symphony orchestra (1980–1981)
  • Points I for electronics and interactive improvisation (1981)
  • Points II for electronics and interactive improvisation (1981)
  • Święty eksperyment for twelve voices, two prepared pianos, xylophone and magnetic tape (1983)
  • Pulse rate for electronics and interactive improvisation (1984)
  • Amphora for electronics and interactive improvisation (1984)
  • Agent Orange for Electronics and Interactive Improvisation (1986)
  • Miraculeo for electronics and interactive improvisation (1988)
  • Chamber Music for voice, electronics and interactive improvisation (1988)
  • Don Roberto and Dona Mercedes ( Gravity, Gloomy River, CCD Blues, Musician, Tightrope Dancer, Stuck to Joe, Dona Mercedes, Don Roberto ) for saxophone, tape, percussion and electronics (1988)
  • Constellation ( Libra, Aquarius, Scorpius, Hydra, Cancer, Pictor, Crater, Columba ) for vocal sextet and instrumental ensemble (1988)
  • Trick star for electronics and interactive improvisation (1989)
  • Mirror I - Liryki Jamesa Joyce'a for electronics and interactive improvisation (1989)
  • Mirror II - Liryki Jamesa Joyce'a for electronics and interactive improvisation (1989)
  • Entering 1990 for electronics and interactive improvisation (1990)
  • Patchwork for large symphony orchestra (1990)
  • Double Saxophone Concerto (1990)
  • Vision and Utopia for Electronics and Interactive Improvisation (1990)
  • M 'bout M for electronics and interactive improvisation (1993)
  • SY 99 Message for electronics and interactive improvisation (1993)
  • Stringplay for electronics and interactive improvisation (1994)
  • Triple Concerto for Electronics and Interactive Improvisation (1995)
  • Extraterrestrials ( Faraway Galaxies, Set-off into, Contacts of the Third Kind, Visitors from the Outer Space, Signs of the Past, Weightlessness ) for electronics and interactive improvisation (1995)
  • Hourglass for tape, violin or other instrument and interactive improvisation (1996)
  • Triple Concerto per Uno ( Koncert potrójny na jedną taśmę ) for electronics and interactive improvisation (1997)
  • Metrograph Future for Electronics and Interactive Improvisation (1997)
  • Un morceau de Mac for electronics and interactive improvisation (1997)
  • Future Music for Electronics and Interactive Improvisation (1998)
  • Metrograph Words for Electronics and Interactive Improvisation (1998)
  • Metrograph Touch for electronics and interactive improvisation (1998)
  • Belief for electronics and interactive improvisation (1999)
  • Celtic Circles ( Druid, The Magic Mistletoe, The Holy Grove, The Golden Sickle, Rune-Stones, Dance of Life ) for electronics and interactive improvisation (2001)
  • Metrograph 45 SE for electronics and interactive improvisation (2002)
  • Legendary Creatures ( Life-giving Protoplasma, From single cells to the Crown of the Creation, Primitive Life-forms, Inhumane Living Beings, Creatures from the Realms of Fables ) for electronics and interactive improvisation (2004)
  • Voodoo-cults ( Mental Preparation, Trance-Prophecies, Elemental Spirits, Mediumize, Macumba, Frenzy ) for electronics and interactive improvisation (2006)
  • Druids' Knowledge ( Priests of Albion, Voice of Deity, Bards of God, Sacred Grove, Servants of Divinity, Lost Knowledge ) for electronics and interactive improvisation (2008)
  • Ballet of the Electrons ( Setting up of the Neutrons, Step by step, Fundamental Nuclear Particles, Tap-dance-accelerator, Particle configuration, Quantum Jumps ) for electronics and interactive improvisation (2010)
  • Microcosmos Macrocosmos ( Tabula Smaragdina, Mind and Matter, Tectonics of a Monad, Structural stones of the Universe, Devision Ratio, Down to the Last Detail ) for electronics and interactive improvisation (2012)
  • The Art of Genetics ( Enlarged Cognition, Natural patterns, Schematic structures, Hereditary dispositions, Inseminate Code ) for electronics and interactive improvisation (2014)
  • Soul Solution ( Attempt to Liberate, Intermediate State, Inner Space, Goin Inward, Borderlines, Deliverence ) for electronics and interactive improvisation (2016)

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personal data
SURNAME Szeremeta, Ryszard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish composer, conductor and jazz singer
DATE OF BIRTH May 5th 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Krakow