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Profiles the Winners of the XI Tadeusz Ochlewski Composers Competition
2013-11-21
The eleventh edition of the competition which is aimed at promoting the work of young composers was won by Franciszek Araszkiewicz (awarded work - "Monster Group Number") and Marta Śniady (awarded work - “s!c2”) - below are their current achievements. Franciszek Araszkiewicz is studying composition at the Academy of Music in Kraków (in the years 2010-2013 under the direction of prof. Krzysztof Knittel, now with Dr. Hab. Marcel Chyrzyński). He is the creator of compositions that are instrumental, vocal-instrumental, electro-acoustic, audio-visual, interactive installations and conceptual art, as well as film music and entertainment music. His works have been performed, amongst others, at the 24th International Days of Kraków Composers Festival, and the 1st Henryk Górecki International Festival in Kraków, the final concerts at the Gramodeska Young European Composers’ Competition 2011 in Brno and Prague, as well as numerous composition-performance workshops organised by the department of contemporary music and jazz at the Academy of Music in Kraków. His installations were exhibited, among others, at the Audio Art Festival 2011, Festival of Culture 2.0 2012 in Warsaw (with Piotr Sych) and the Athens Video Art Festival 2013 (with Anna Petelenz). His composition Musique Logistique for 2 pianos received the second prize (first not awarded) at the „,..kiedy myślę Messiaen…” Polish Composers' Competition in Wrocław in 2013.Marta Śniady, composer, music theorist, born February 2, 1986, in Pabianice. She graduated with distinction in composition in the class of prof. Bronisław Kazimierz Przybylski (2010) and theory of music under the direction of Dr. Ewa Kowalska-Zając, prof. AM (2011) at the G. and K. Bacewicz Music Academy in Łódź. She studied electronic music under the direction of Dr. Hab. Krzysztof Knittel. For two years she studied in the framework of the Postgraduate Studies in Film Music, Computer and Audiovisual Works in Łódź. She has participated in courses conducted by prof. Marek Chołoniewski (Academy of Music in Kraków) and Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil (Academy of Music in Wrocław). In August 2013 she took part in the course for composers, "Synthesis" in Radziejowice, where she studied under the tutelage of such composers as Mauro Lanza, Mauricio Sotelo and Miguel Azguime. Her works are regularly presented during concerts as part of the Musica Moderna session in Łódź. She worked with Małgorzata Moneta during the photographic exhibition "Nano" at Galeria FF Łódź Dom Kultury. In October 2010 her installation entitled „Pieces of Chopin after bottle of wine” was presented under the framework of the „Cóż po Chopinie?” project in the „Propaganda sztuki” Municipal Art Gallery in Łódź. In 2012, the work „aSH” was performed by the Kwartludium ensemble during a concert in the contem.ucha series at the Łódź Philharmonic. Her compositions have been performed in the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music S1 Studio in Warsaw. She won the 3rd prize in the composition competition organised on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Academy of Music in Gdańsk with the work „Dusza z cieła wylecieła” for mixed choir a cappella.
Since 2009, she has maintained permanent collaboration with Dziennik Łódzki as a music reviewer, and additionally has published in the musical journal "Glissando" and written an appendix to Małgorzata Gąsiorowska's book „Rozmowy z Włodzimierzem Kotońskim” (2010). She works as an assistant in Łódź Academy of Music.
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