Kwartludium +

Basics

Artistic director:members of the ensemble
Conductor:no
Size:7
Instruments:

clarinet/bass clarinet, violin, piano, percussion, cello, accordion, flute.

Specific equipment:

tape, piano preparations

CountryPoland
PartnerPolish Music Information Centre & Polish Composers Union (Związek Kompozytorów Polskich)

Statistics

20082007200620052004
Performances
Pieces
National Pieces101412
International Pieces683
First performances8107
Commisions386
Audience300900300

Repertoire

Main national repertoire

Aleksander Kosciow - Ore Osse Oculo, Wojciech Ziemowit Zych - Stale obecna tesknota, Ballada, Maciej Jablonski - E, Aleksandra Gryka - Ambeoidal Mcods, Adam Falkiewicz - Psychodramen II, Anna Pecherzewska - Odludium,  Seweryn Scibior - Tourette,  Bartosz Kowalski - Banasewicz - Kwartludium 1,2,3,  Microcirculation, Grzegorz Duchnowski - Quartetto concertante, Wojciech Blecharz - Torpor, Dariusz Przybylski - Medeas Treume, Sławomir Wojciechowski - XXX

International repertoire

Lawrence Moss - Korea for Kwartludium, Johannes Kreidler - In Hyper Intervals, Arne Sanders - (Dubug) I've seen that face before, Paul Frick - Camouflage, Eduardo Mougiliansky - XXX

Graphic works:  Ch. Wolff - Edges, D. Detoni - Graphics,  Carl Bergstroem - Nielsen - Frame works, K. Stockhausen - Bird of Passage, H. Rasmussen - Paticles of space, P. Sterk - Biomas, C. Cardew - Treatise.

Potential use of the Re:new repertoire

Presentation of the repertoire to the public in many ways - our concerts (in cooperation with Polish Composers Union), festivals (in cooperation with Warsaw Autumn Festival and Audio Art Festival) and also education projects (cooperation with CSW) for young public. Also we would like to present some aspects of all chosen compositions in our individual teaching schedules (members of Kwartludium work as a teachers).

Submitted pieces

Aleksander Kosciow - Ore Osse Oculo,  Grzegorz Duchnowski - Narzedzie ze swiatla, Wojciech Ziemowit Zych - Stale obecna tesknota, Hommage a Gyorgy Kurtag, Aleksandra Gryka - Ambeoidal Mcods, Adam Falkiewicz - Psychodramen II,  Wojciech Blecharz - Torpor,  Maciej Jabłoński - e.

Address book

Adress

Michal Gorczynski, Dagna Sadkowska, ul. Jaroslawa Dabrowskiego 82 A m. 18,  02 - 571 Warszawa. phone:+48607721036,  

Piotr Nowicki, Paweł Nowicki, ul. Krasickiego 6, 80-515 Gdańsk

e-mail: kwartludium@kwartludium.com

website

http://www.kwartludium.com

 


Information

Kwartludium was formed in 2002, and consists of graduates of Music Academies of Warsaw, Bydgoszcz and Gdansk. The name originates from the first composition by Bartosz Kowalski-Banasewicz written for this ensemble. The ensemble, formed by Dagna Sadkowska (violin), Michał Górczyński (clarinet, bass clarinet), Paweł Nowicki (percussion), Piotr Nowicki (piano), focuses on performing works of young composers active both in Poland and abroad. Kwartludium possesses in its artistic output many Polish and worldwide premiere performances. The group performed on numerous festivals such as: International Festival of Contemporary Music “Warsaw Autumn” 2003-2007, Laboratory of Contemporary Music 2005, “JAZ Festival of Improvised Music” 2004 in Katowice, Festival of Multimedia Art “Audio-Art” 2003 and 2006 in Warsaw, Ad libitum 2006, “Days of New Music” festival in Gdansk to name but a few. In 2005 the musicians took part in the final concert of Composers’ Competition named after Tadeusz Baird in Warsaw. The ensemble performed together with the Polish Radio Orchestra conducted by Daniel Gazon (a multimedia concert broadcast live by TVP2) and took manifold part in Polish- German workshops of contemporary music under supervision of Rüdiger Bohn (Warsaw, Berlin, Trebnitz). Contemporary improvised music plays an important role in the group’s activity. In the repertoire of Kwartludium are graphic and intuitive compositions of the most significant representatives of the newest music such as: Stockhausen, Bergstroem-Nielsen, Cardew, Stark, Wolf, Rasmusen and Detoni. In 2007 Kwartludium became a laureate of Scholarship Program of Minister of Culture and National Heritage “Young Poland”. In January 2008 the group’s debut album was released on DUX label. The album consists of two parts, the first one being works of young Polish composers commissioned by Kwartludium, the second – interpretations of visual works of art of young Polish artists.

Activity

Participation

International Festival of Contemporary Music "Warsaw Autumn", "Laboratory of Contemporary Music" (Warsaw),  The Festival of Dialogue of Four Cultures (Lodz), JAZ Festival of Improvised Music (Katowice), Multimedia Festival "Audio Art" (Warsaw),  "Ad libitum" (Warsaw), "New Music Days", "Avant Days" (Gdansk), Tadeusz Baird Competition in Warsaw, Workshop for composers (Trebnitz/D), European Composers Forum (Helsinki/Fin), Musica Moderna (Lodz), Musica Polonica Nova (Wroclaw), Unsound (Krakow, New York)

Participation abroad

Warsaw Autumn Festival - Warsaw, lviv, Krakow tour

Workshop for composers (Trebnitz/D)

European Composers Forum (Helsinki/Fin)

Polish-German New Generation Platform (Berlin, Cottbus, Goerlitz)

Unsound Festival (New York/USA)

 

Discography

Kwartludium - Polish composers pieces, DUX 0596

Concert relations

Warsaw Autumn Festival

Media relations

no formal connections