Aleksander Gabryś
Aleksander Gabryś (born October 22, 1974 in Siemianowice Śląskie , Poland ) is a Polish composer and double bass player .
Life
Gabryś graduated from the Katowice Music Academy (1998) and the Basel City Music Academy (2008), each with distinction. He took part in various master courses for double bass and composition in Poland and abroad. He studied with Waldemar Tamowski, Ovidiu Bădilă , and Wolfgang Güttler . As a composer, he took courses with Thomas Kessler and Hanspeter Kyburz in Basel. Before he came to Switzerland, he studied with his father Ryszard Gabryś and consulted Witold Szalonek and Tadeusz Moryto.
Aleksander Garbyś was a scholarship holder of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation and the Society of Friends of Warsaw Autumn . At this festival he made his debut with the theatrical composition Deus Irae (2002), which played together with the Bucharest trio Pro Contemporania. He appears regularly as a soloist and chamber musician ( Ensemble Phoenix Basel , Klangforum Wien , Ensemble Modern , Collegium Novum Zurich, among others) and also interprets his own pieces, such as Nano at the 16th International Composers' Days in Krakow, Jekyll / Hyde at the First World Double Bass Festival in Wrocław and the Musica Experimento cycle in Rome, as well as Don Quixote readymade and Chapter VII , which was performed in a trio in Basel, Bern, Zurich and Visp. He interpreted his composition If it's Truths together with the Silesian String Quartet at the Festival of World Premiere, organized by the National Symphony Orchestra of Polish Radio in Katowice.
His artistic work mainly includes chamber music and double bass pieces , as well as computer music of the neo-expressionist avant-garde . The tendency towards para-theatrical forms is already evident in his first scores ( Voak gefeustich , 1992) and is continued in the use of stage directions, for example in the solo work Pax, Freunde, Pax für Trompete (2008) or elUle (2010) for horn, violin and voices.
Gabryś creates soundscapes on the computer: Eco-Ethno-Polish-Mountains-Spehroid , based on music recordings from the Beskydy region - the piece provided the musical score for the animated film Chowańszczyzna (2009) by Ewa Słowik-Grabowska - or L`ultima volta con de -cadenza , performed and awarded (2000) by the Institut international de musique électroacoustique de Bourges .
In 2009 Aleksander Gabryś composed music for the artistic para-documentary Avunculus by Alicja Żebrowska about the miners of the Wujek coal mine , who were killed by the communist regime in 1981, as well as for the photographic impressions of the nightly Katowice by the French photographer and director Carl Cordonnier.
In 2009 the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage awarded him the “Young Poland” scholarship for his artistic achievements, which enabled him to publish the solo double CD Bassolo (2011) on the DUX label.
Successes in competitions
- Concours International de Musique Electroacoustique in Bourges
- Tadeusz Baird Competition in Warsaw
- Andrzej Panufnik Competition in Krakow
- Patri Patriae competition in Katowice (1st prize)
- Adam Bronisław Ciechański Competition in Poznan
- International Krzysztof Penderecki Competition for Chamber Music in Krakow
Works (selection)
- Bestiary (2012) for violin and horn
- Cadenza to the first movement of the horn concerto by WA Mozart KV 447 (2009)
- Glorietta (2007) for soloist choir and tape - joint composition with Ryszard Gabryś
- Bas-El (2006) for tape
- Since I was a boy (2004) for soprano, horn, clarinet, violin, violoncello and piano, based on the poem of the same name by Friedrich Hölderlin
- Aleksandrietta (2004) for double bass solo
- Deus Irae (2002) for ensemble, tape and light
- Folklorietta (2001) Music from tape
- L'Ultima volta con de-cadenza (2000) for tape, commissioned by the festival “Synthèse 2000”, France
- Eco-Ethno-Polish-Mountains-Spheroid (1998) based on Silesian-Beskid folklore recordings, computer music
- Abraxas (1998) for strings and tape
- Printemps Mandale (1997) for tape, on the author's own verse in the recording
- Quadrofonietta (1996) for string instrument, stereo tape and computer
- Święty Boże (1993) for soprano, piano strings, tape and light
- Lux in Tenebris (1992) for tape
- Voak gefeustich (1992) Musical theatrical action for five performers
- Miniatures (1990) for double bass and computer sound
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Gabryś, Aleksander |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gabryś, Alexander |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish composer and double bass player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 22, 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Siemianowice Śląskie |