Blecharz will be cooperating with the Conservatory’s chamber orchestra, the Forbidden City Chamber Orchestra (FCCO). Through the workshops, Blecharz will use traditional Chinese instruments in his own work. Then he will collaborate with the FCCO musicians to make a new composition scheduled to be premiered by the orchestra at the Warsaw Autumn festival in 2014. The project was set in motion two years ago, and has consisted of three week-long visits by composers to China.
The Forbidden City Chamber Orchestra was founded by 11 musicians in Beijing, each specialized in ancient Chinese instruments. The work of the orchestra has spanned traditional music with a classic esthetic and innovative and individualized new music. In 2011, the orchestra toured Warsaw and Krakow during Chinese Culture Days, organized by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute.
Four Polish composers were present during the May workshops: Tadeusz Wielecki, Jarosław Siwiński, Paweł Hendrich and Piotr Roemer. Lidia Zielińska had joined the group by the end of the collaboration with FCCO. Their visits were also organized by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute.
Sources: own materials, author: JN, 16/08/2013
Translation: SMG 16/08/2013