Imagined snow / Festiwal of Premieres / Spółdzielnia Muzyczna

The Festival of Premieres

Sunday

12.03.202316:00

Chamber Hall

Seats

Performers

Spółdzielnia Muzyczna:

Malgorzata Mikulska / flutes / performance

Tomasz Sowa / clarinets / performance

Krzysztof Guna / saxophones / performance

Martyna Zakrzewska / keyboards / performance

Paulina Woś / violin / performance

Barbara Mglej / violin / viola / performance

Jakub Gucik / cello / performance

Aleksander Wnuk / percussion / performance

Guest: Barbara Kinga Majewska / głos

Program

Anna Sowa

'The Suspense'

Viacheslav Kyrylov

'close to the zero intensity'

Katarina Gryvul

'Solastalgia'

Paweł Malinowski

'ice to weep'

Voice, ensemble, electronics.

Contemporary music moves between abstraction and meaning. Anna Sowa focusses on breathing (The Suspense), combining playing on instruments with quasi-choreographic tasks, while Viacheslav Kyrylov investigates difference and unity, close to zero intensity.

Contemporary music is written and seeks to exist here and now. It reacts. In writing ice to weep, Paweł Malinowski noted that the image of winter from the texts of Thomas Hardy and Simon Armitage is rapidly losing its currency. Snow is increasingly confined to the realm of the imaginary. Katarina Gryvul, in Solastalgia, refers to the pain we feel when a place close to our heart alters irrevocably, ‘when your home will never be like it once was’ (however that home is understood).