Professor Krzysztof Baculewski, PhD

Com­poser, born in 1950 in War­saw, com­pleted his stud­ies in 1974 under Witold Rudz­iński at the Fry­deryk Chopin State Col­lege of Music in War­saw. In the years 1975–1976 he stud­ied com­po­si­tion in Paris under Olivier Mes­si­aen at the Con­ser­va­toire National Supérieur de Musique and elec­troa­coustic music (Pierre Scha­ef­fer trainee­ship) at the Groupe de Recherches Musi­cales. In 1982 he was awarded a doc­toral degree in human­i­ties by the Uni­ver­sity of War­saw. Since that year he has lec­tured at the Fry­deryk Chopin Uni­ver­sity of Music in War­saw. Since 2001 he has been a tit­u­lar pro­fes­sor. He has also worked as vis­it­ing pro­fes­sor at Johannes-Gutenberg Uni­ver­sität in Mainz and deliv­ered many guest lec­tures at music acad­e­mies in Poland as well as in Bul­garia, Ger­many and Aus­tria. He has col­lab­o­rated with the PWM and PWN ency­clo­pe­dias of music, the PWN gen­eral ency­clo­pe­dia and the Ency­clo­pe­dia of Twentieth-Century Pol­ish Cul­ture. He is the author of a range of the­o­ret­i­cal, jour­nal­is­tic and crit­i­cal works pub­lished in the peri­od­i­cals Ruch Muzy­czny (since 1973), Muzyka and Stu­dio. In 1986 the State Opera in Wrocław staged his opera Nowe Wyz­wole­nie [The New Deliv­er­ance]. Besides Poland, his works have been per­formed in many other Euro­pean coun­tries, as well as the USA and South Amer­ica. Since 1986 Krzysztof Bac­ulewski has been a mem­ber of the Reper­toire Com­mit­tee of the War­saw Autumn Inter­na­tional Fes­ti­val of Con­tem­po­rary Music. Since 1992 he has worked with the “Cam­er­ata Sile­sia” Cham­ber Choir under the direc­tion of Anna Szostak, for which he has com­posed sev­eral works and with which he occa­sion­ally impro­vises the con­tinuo part in baroque reper­toire. He is also the author of a recon­struc­tion of the Piano Con­certo in A flat major, op. 2 (1824), by Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński (a school friend of Fry­deryk Chopin) and the instru­men­ta­tion of the opera Beata (1872) by the great­est Pol­ish opera com­poser Stanisław Moniuszko (the man­u­script of the score was lost in flames dur­ing World War Two with­out a copy hav­ing been made). His works have been per­formed by some out­stand­ing artists, includ­ing the pianist Józef Stom­pel, the alto Jad­wiga Rappé, the tenor Piotr Kusiewicz, the Eng­lish baroque vio­lin­ist Simon Standage and the Japan­ese con­duc­tor Takao Ukigaya.

Major works:

Sonata for per­cus­sion (1971), Epitafium for orches­tra (1972), Mean­der for flute (1973), The New Deliv­er­ance, an opera after the drama by Stanisław Witkiewicz (1974), Vivace e Can­tilena for flute, piano and string quin­tet (1974), Ground for Orches­tra (1981), Quartier Latin for tape (1981), Spring Sonata for solo flute (1982), Con­certo for Orches­tra (1983), A Walk­ing Shadow for orches­tra (1990), The Whole & Bro­ken Con­sort for renais­sance instru­ments (1986), Anti­theton I for piano trio (1989), Voy­age à tra­vers le paysage méta­physique for tape (1992), The Pro­fane Anthem To Anne (text by John Donne) for soloists, choir and baroque orches­tra with con­tinuo (1992), Rilke-Lieder for soprano solo, bari­tone solo and two mixed choirs a cap­pella (1994), 33 Pol­ish Car­ols for mixed choir (1994), Anti­theton II for two baroque vio­lins and con­tinuo (1996), Ozwodne i Krze­sane (Pol­ish folk songs from the Pod­hale moun­tain region) for choir (2000), Les Adieux, a can­tata for con­tralto solo and string orches­tra with harp (2001), 12 Piano Stud­ies (2006), Sonata for Vio­lin (2006) and also music for film and stage.