Marcin Wierzbicki

Marcin Wierzbicki (born July 12, 1969 in Lublin ) is a Polish composer and music teacher.

Wierzbicke studied from 1898 to 1994 at the Warsaw Music Academy with Marian Borkowski . In addition, he attended several master classes, including the Darmstadt Summer Courses (1996) and IRCAM courses in Krakow and Helsinki (2000) and in Paris (2001). In 2003 he earned a doctorate in composition.

Since 1994 he has been teaching at the Warsaw Music Academy, since 2004 as a lecturer for electronic music in the studio for computer music. As a delegate from the university, he took part in the International Computer Music Association (ICMA) conferences in Berlin (2000), Gothenburg (2002) and Barcelona (2005). He is a founding member and board member of the Polish Society for Electroacoustic Music in the ICMA. He also gave lectures at symposia and conferences at several domestic and foreign universities, was a lecturer at the International Workshop Bridges in Hanover in 2004 and gave courses at the University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart as part of the Erasmus and Socrates program .

Wierzbicki is a specialist in electronic music and works here particularly in the field of remote communication in multimedia activities. In the GPS-Trans project , which he realized together with Marek Chołoniewski , interactive elements, multimedia art and internet art are combined. He designed software for interactive musical activities used by Chołoniewski, Andrzej Bauer and Anna Zielinska , among others . The most extensive of these programs, MaWe, was successfully presented in 2006 at the IRCAM's Prisma scientific meeting .

Wierzbicki's own compositions have been performed at concerts in Germany, France, Germany, South Korea, Canada and the USA as well as at many festivals for contemporary music (including Warsaw Autumn 1996, symposia of the Warsaw Music Academy in 1999, 2000 and 2003, Audio-Art Krakau 2003, Musica Polonica Nova Breslau 2006, Festivals Synthèse Bourges 2001 to 2006).

Works

• Wariacje nie na temat for piano (1989)
• Pocztówka z Paranoi for clarinet solo (1991)
• Great Mystery for tape (1991)
• Echa z Otchłani for soprano and piano (1991)
• Ikebania for soprano and accordion (1992)
• Krajobraz z połówką pomarańczy , Chamber Opera (1992)
• Trio for violin, cello and piano (1992)
• Electronic Dreams II for six percussionists, piano and electronic media, (1992)
• ... lo zefiro torna ... for flute and accordion (1993)
• Music of Silence for flute and electronic media (1993)
• Concert for trumpet, electronic media and symphony orchestra (1993)
• Continuo for clarinet and computer (1994)
• ForM for tape (1995)
• Quando corpus for mixed choir (1996)
• Ikebania for soprano and harp (1998)
• Pierwszy dzień wakacji , piece for children for piano four hands (2000)
• Historia wielkiej śnieżkowej bitwy pod Trzema Dębami , piece for children for piano four hands (2000)
• The World: an Imaginary Place between Creation and Destruction for tape (2001)
• Easter Wings for vocal ensemble (2001)
• Siedem pejzaży wiosennych for soprano and chamber orchestra (2001)
• Synapsis for cello, piano, percussion and electronic media (2001)
• Spring is icumen in for tape (2002)
• Three geometric tales for flute and string orchestra (2002)
• Interferencje retroaktywne for cello and computer (2002)
• Poème électronique for piano, percussion, computer and symphony orchestra (2002)
• Triple sonata for clarinet, double bass, percussion and computer (2003)
• Improvisary Landscape No. 1 for the interactive music system MaWe (2003)
• Thinking ... violin for violin and electronics (2005)
• Imaginary Part of Life for tape (2005)
• Klucz do wyobraźni for tape (2005)
• Reminiscencje for harp, double bass and computer (2005)

source

• culture.pl - Marcin Wierzbicki