Solo
organ Recital by
Dariusz
Przybylski
(Poland)
Henryk
Mikołaj Górecki (1933 – 2010,
Poland):
Cantata
op. 26 for solo organ (1968) *
Andrzej
Krzanowski (1951 – 1990, Poland):
Relief II for
accordion (1985),
transcription
for organ by Dariusz Przybylski (2016) *
Meditation
(2018) **
Psalmus (1975) *
Icon (2010) *
Dariusz Przybylski (b. 1984, Poland):
Sequenza quasi una fantasia op. 11b for organ (2004) *
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* Bulgarian
premiere
** World premiere
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This
concert has been made possible
thanks to the generous support of:
thanks to the generous support of:
* * *
Dariusz Przybylski
(b. 1984) – organist and composer – graduated in 2003 from the State Secondary
School of Music in Konin, where he studied organ with Hanna Buczkowska. He graduated with magna cum laude
from the “Fryderyk Chopin” Academy (now University) of Music in Warsaw where he
studied composition with Marcin
Błażewicz and organ with Andrzej
Chorosiński. In the academic year 2006/2007, he was granted a scholarship
to study in the High School of Music in Cologne – composition with York Höller,
electronic composition with Hans Ulrich Humpert, instrumentation with Krzysztof
Meyer and organ with Johannes Geffert. In 2010, he completed a doctorate in
musical arts at the “Fryderyk Chopin” University of Music and earned the highest degree in composition from the
High School of Music in Karlsruhe where he studied with Wolfgang Rihm. He has
participated in many master classes of composition (taught by Helmut Lachenmann, Chaya Czernowin, Olga
Neuwirth, Paul Edlin, Dominic Muldowney, Roderick Watkins and Philip Wilby), organ music interpretation (by Karol Gołębiowski, Edgar Krapp, Gerhard Weinberger,
Gary Verkade and Wolfgang Zerer) and organ
improvisation (by Tomasz Adam Nowak and Daniel Roth).
Since 2008, he is an assistant professor at the “Fryderyk Chopin” University
of Music in Warsaw. He has been a guest lecturer in New York City,
Hamburg, Rome, Istanbul and Moscow; visiting professor of composition at
Keimyung University in Daegu (South Korea), as well as composer-in-residence at
music forums and festivals in Austria, Russia and Germany. In 2008 – 2012,
Przybylski was Chairman of the Youth Section of the Polish Composers' Union. He
is a member of the Polish Composers' Union, ZAiKS Society of Authors and the
Polish Section of ISCM.
In 2006, he took part
in the international composition project Mozart
Pyramid held in Canterbury (England) as part of the Mozart Year, as well as
in the project 60 Commissions for the
60th Anniversary of the Polish Composers' Union. He has also been selected
to take part in the Programme for the Promotion of 13 Composers (2007–10),
organised by the Krzysztof Penderecki European Music Centre.
His scores have been published by Verlag Neue Musik in Berlin. His compositions
have been performed in, among others, the Royal Festival Hall in London, the halls
of the Moscow Philharmonic, the Minsk Philharmonic, the Warsaw National
Philharmonic and the Polish Radio Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio in Warsaw. His music can be found on CDs
released by DUX, Sarton and Requiem Records.
He has received a number of scholarships and
prestigious national and international awards for composition and organ
playing, icluding the second prize (first prize had not been awarded) and
special prize in the 20th Century Polish Organ Music Competition in Legnica
(2001) and grand prix in the Contemporary Music for Young Performers
Competition in Warsaw (2005).
As
an organist, Dariusz Przybylski
has given concerts in many Polish cities as well as abroad. New music has a
special place in his repertoire and he has given numerous first performances of
new works. He also performs as an improviser.
www.dariuszprzybylski.eu