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Composers

Jacek Domagała

*1947

composer, pianist and organist, born 19 August 1947 in Szczecinek. His works include choral, vocal- instrumental, orchestral, solo and chamber music. He studied composition with Witold Szalonek, piano under the direktion of Olga Dąbrowska and organ with Heinz Wunderlich. After receiving the Oscar and Vera Ritter- Stiftung scholarship in Hamburg, he participaded in master classes conduted of György Ligeti. He is the winner of the Boris Blacher prize in Berlin, George Mufat prize in Salzburg and Ludwig van Beethoven prize in Bonn. Currently Jacek Domagała lives and works in Berlin.
In the early years of his activity as a composer, Jacek Domagała was strongly influenced by his interest in J.S. Bach and in jazz music. The second stage of Jacek Domagała's artistic development owes much to the Second Viennese School, which had a powerul impact on the his musical language and the technique that himself calls " neoserialism". The composer applies precise notation and distanced himself from aleatoricism in the end he uses this technique only in fragments. Contact with the Viennese modernist tradition had not only led to an evolution of Domagała's musical language, but also influenced his way of building musical narration and the type of expression, rooted in the post-romantic sound concepts.