Elżbieta Sikora
Elżbieta Sikora ( born October 20, 1943 in Lviv ) is a Polish composer.
Sikora studied from 1951 to 1963 piano at the music school in her hometown. This was followed up in 1968 to study as a sound engineer at the Music Academy in Warsaw. From 1968 to 1970, a study of electronic music by François Bayle and Pierre Schaeffer at the Groupe de Recherches Musicales in Paris followed. She then returned to Warsaw to study composition with Tadeusz Baird and Zbigniew Rudziński ( Master's degree 1977). From 1981 to 1984 she took private lessons in composition with Betsy Jolas and studied computer music at IRCAM and John Chowning at Stanford University. In 1973 she founded with Krzysztof Knittel and Wojciech Michniewski the group of composers KEW:
When Komponistenwetbbewerb 1978 in Dresden Sikora won the second prize with the opera Ariadna. In the competition for Experimental Music in Bourges, she was with honorable Erwähnungnen and 2000 awarded the Prix Magisterium. In the competition for composers in Mannheim 1981 she won the First Prize for Guernica. The SACEM they recorded in 1994 with the Prix Pedagogique and the Prix Stephane Chapelier - Clergue -Gabriel - Marie from. In 1997 she received the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland.
Works
- Intervention pour tuba, 2 percussions et bande, 1969
- Prénom for tape, 1970
- Widok z okna for tape, 1971
- L' incertitude de l' été, 1973
- Pieśni rozweselajace serce for soprano and instruments, 1973
- Kwartet smyczkowy nr 1, 1975
- Podróż pierwsza for double bass or tuba, 1975
- Cercle for orchestra, 1975
- Guernica - Homage to Pablo Picasso for mixed choir, 1975-79
- Podróż druga for tape, 1976
- Stworzenie swiata, oratorio for two vocal ensemble and chamber orchestra, 1976
- Selon Pascal ... for Trumpet, Harp, Harpsichord and Cello, 1976-78
- Ariadna, chamber opera, 1977
- Noca twarza ku niebu for tape, 1978
- Najemnicy for trombone and percussion, 1978
- Powiększenie, ballet music, 1979
- Ziemia jalowa for tape, 1979
- Trzy Interludia for Flute and Harp, 1979
- Rapsodia na smierc Republiki for tape, 1979
- Maly Ksiaze for flute and percussion, 1979
- Blow -up, Ballet, 1980
- Lettres à M., 1980
- Kwartet smyczkowy nr 2, 1980
- Interludes for Flute and Harp, 1980
- Prelude for piano, 1981
- Podróż Trzecia for Flute, 1981
- Salve Regina for children's choir and organ, 1981
- La tête d' Orphée, pour bande, 1981
- La tête d' Orphée II, for flute et bande, 1982
- Janek Wisniewski - grudzien -Polska for tape, 1982-83
- Wasteland, Ballet, 1983
- Derrière son doublem Radio Opera, 1983
- A small Tagmusikfür seven instruments, 1983
- Pieśni rozweselajace serce for soprano, flute and harpsichord, 1983
- Solo for Violin, 1983-84
- Wyrywacz serc, chamber opera after Boris Vian, 1984-86, 1992
- Symfonia nr 1 " Cienie " 1984-90
- Genesis, oratorio for soprano, speaker, mixed choir, chamber orchestra and electronic sounds, 1986
- La clef de verre, Ballet, 1986
- Loreley for soprano or mezzo-soprano and instrumental ensemble, 1987
- Rappel II for orchestra and harp, 1987-88
- A peine le temps que dure une vision, for soprano, ensemble instrumental et bande ou récitante et bande, 1987-89
- Suite pour violoncello et bande, 1987-89
- Geometries variable pour bande, 1991
- Les enfants du vent for orchestra, 1991
- Suite II pour clavecin, bande et transformations, 1992
- Le chant de Salomon for soprano and ensemble, 1992
- On the Line for soprano and tape, 1992
- Les enfants terribles, pour bande, 1992
- Sekstet smyczkowy - Hommage à Witold Lutoslawski, 1993
- Chant 'Europe for three children's choirs and chamber orchestra, 1993
- Cinéma, cinéma for children's choir and chamber orchestra, 1994
- Canzona for viola da gamba and instrumental ensemble, 1995
- Flashback - Hommage à Pierre Schaeffer, for tape, 1996
- Suite III ( Baroque ) for orchestra, 1997
- Omnia tempus habent, oratorio for alto voice, children's choir, mixed choir, organ and orchestra, 1997
- Fragments for soprano and bande, 1997
- On est toujours for baritone and piano or baritone, two sopranos, saxophone, bandoneon, piano and double bass, 1997
- Kwartet smyczkowy nr 1 ( Thinking of Brahms ), 1997
- Suite II pour clavecin et bande, 1998
- Aqua Marina for tape, 1998
- Lisboa, tramway 28, hommage à Fernando Pessoa for saxophone and tape, 1999
- Kwartet smyczkowy nr 3 ( Ursula in memoriam ), 1999
- Maitre Renard et maître Corbeau - Le laboreur et ses enfants for children's choir and ensemble, 1999
- Ecce Homo for orchestra, 1999
- A rose as a support for soprano and piano, 2000
- Koncert fortepianowy nr 1 "Hommage à Chopin ", 2000
- Selon ... Pascal II for Trumpet, Harp, Harpsichord and Cello, 2000
- Trois Innocenties for gemischtren Choir, 2001
- Short Stories for Organ, 2001
- Grain de sable for tape, 2002
- Rouge d' été for tape, 2002
- A rose as a prop - a radio play for tape, 2002
- Axe rouge for saxophone, double bass and tape, 2004
- Koncert na saksofon i orkiestre - Michelangelo, 2005
- Cadenza for Cello, 2005
- Tytane for double bass, 2005
- Reflets Irises for piano and electronic instruments, 2006
- Alla breve for piano, 2006
- Koncert Oliwski for Organ and Orchestra, 2007
- Axe rouge II for saxophone, percussion and tape, 2007