The SEPIA Ensemble from Poznań, photo: promotional material
The electroacoustic music festival Musicacoustica will be held at the Central Conservatory in Beijing in late October. Part of this year’s program is devoted to the music of Lutosławski and Polish electroacoustics.
One act on the roster is the SEPIA Ensemble from Poznań, conducted by Lidia Zielińska, who teaches at the Poznań Academy of Music. On the 24th of October audiences will hear works of Polish composers including Zielińska, Rafał Zapała, Magdalena Długosz, Katarzyna Taborowska, Ryszard Osada and Anna Zawadzka-Gołosz. Witold Lutosławski’s material will be performed on the 25th of October including his pieces Bukoliki / Bucolics, Preludia taneczne / Dance Preludes, Subito, and Muzyka Żałobna / Musique funèbre.
The festival will include lectures, workshops and a sound installation to be hosted in the Central Conservatory of China.
The Musicacoustica Festival began in 1994 and is one of the largest festivals of its kind in Asia. It brings together performers, composers and scholars from many countries; each year working with a different theme. Organised by China’s Electro-Acoustic Music Centre (CEMC), a part of the Central Conservatory of Music (CCOM), in collaboration with the Electronic Music Association of China (EMAC), the chosen theme for this year is Innovation.
But Musicacoustica was not the only initiative focusing on Polish music in Beijing. In May, four Polish composers took part in a workshop organised by the China Conservatory of Music under Professor Lui Shun. Paweł Hendrich, Piotr Roemer, Jarosław Siwiński and Tadeusz Wielecki collaborated with musicians from the Forbidden City Chamber Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra of the Conservatory in a series of weekly classes.
Sources: press materials, author: FL, September 2013
Translation: SMG 19/09/2013