Bettina Skrzypczak

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Name Bettina Skrzypczak		Role Composer

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Bettina Skrzypczak (born 1962) is a Polish composer.

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Biography

Skrzypczak was born in Poznań, Poland. She studied piano at Bydgoszcz and music at the Academy of Music in Poznan. In 1985 she graduated with a degree in music theory, and in 1988 with a degree in composition, studying with Andrzej Koszewski. From 1984-88 she studied with Witold Lutoslawski, Luigi Nono, Henri Pousseur, and Iannis Xenakis in composition courses organised in Kazimierz by the Polish section of the ISCM. In 1988 she studied electronic music with Thomas Kessler and composition with Rudolf Kelterborn in Basle, Switzerland. She also studied musicology with Jürg Stenzl and complementary studies in cultural philosophy with Hans Saner in Fribourg. In 1990 she studied computer music with Klarenz Barlow in Cologne. In 1999 she received a doctorate degree from the Academy of Music in Cracow.

In 2002 Skrzypczak took a position as a professor at the Music University Lucerne. She also served as a guest lecturer at schools and universities including the International Courses of New Music in Darmstadt in 2004, the European Chamber Music Academy, Hannover, and Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Munich.

Skrzypczak founded and served as artistic director of the Swiss "Ensemble Boswil" promoting young artists with annual workshops in Boswil followed by concert tours. Her works have been performed internationally. She is the author of radio programs and journal articles on contemporary and Polish music. She resides in Riehen/Switzerland.

Honors and awards

1989 Prize, Zagreb Music Biennale's competition for young composers

1990 Prize, Tadeusz Baird Competition, Warsaw

1992 Honorable mention, "Tribune internationale des compositeurs", Paris

1994 Prize,10th International Competition for Women Composers, Mannheim

1996 Cultural Recognition Prize, City of Basle

2001 Composition Grant, Canton and City of Lucerne

2004 Cultural Prize of the City of Riehen

2008 Composition Grant, Canton and City of Lucerne

Works

Selected works include:

ABC (1986) for tape

Acaso (1994) for choir, clarinet, cello and percussion, Text: Stéphane Mallarmé, Jorge Luis Borges, Nikolaus Kopernikus, Rainer Maria Rilke, trad. (Maori)

Amoureske (2003) for viola d'amore

Anomalia Lunae media (2007) for soprano, baritone and instruments, Text: Leonhard Euler, Boethius, Leonardo da Vinci, Jorge Luis Borges

Arcato (2000) for Viola solo

Aria (2004) for 2 bass saxophones

Caleidoscopio (1992) for string ensemble

Cercar (2001) for prepared guitar solo

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1998)

Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra (1995/96)

Daphnes Lied (Daphne's Song) (2002) for piano solo

Fantasie (1997) for oboe solo

Flash (2007) for percussion solo

Illuminationen (Illuminations) (2008) for clarinet, cello and piano

In un soffio (2003) for wind quintet

Initial (2005) for orchestra

Landschaft des Augenblicks (1992) Five Songs for mezzo-soprano, viola and piano, Text: Czeslaw Milosz, Kazimiera Illakowiczówna, Leopold Staff, Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska

Lettres (2004) for soprano, clarinet and cello Text: Guillaume de Machaut

Mazurka (2000) for accordion solo

Miroirs (2000) for mezzo-soprano and ensemble, Texts: J. L. Borges, Li Tai-bo, Bernart de Ventadorn und Satchal Sarmas

Mouvement (1999) for flute solo

Nonet for Wind Instruments and Double Bass (1994)

Notturno (1992) for flute solo

Phototaxis (2003) for string orchestra

Scène (2001) for violin and cello

String Quartet nr. 2 (1991)

String Quartet nr. 3 (1993)

String Quartet nr. 4 (2003)

Toccata sospesa (1999) for flute und 2 percussionists

Trio (1990) for 3 percussionists

Variabile (1991) for orchestra

Verba (1987) for orchestra

Vier Figuren (2001) for ensemble (18 players) in 3 groups

Weissagung (Prophecy) (2003) composed improvisation for the "quartet noir"

What Is Black, What Is White (1987) for 2 percussionists

References

Bettina Skrzypczak Wikipedia

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