Jacek Domagała is a composer, pianist and organist, born on 19 August 1947 in Szczecinek. He currently lives and works in Berlin.
He studied composition with Witold Szalonek, piano under the direction of Olga Dąbrowska, and organ with Heinz Wunderlich. After receiving the Oscar and Vchera RitterStiftung scholarship in Hamburg, he participated in master classes conducted by György Ligeti. He is the winner of the Boris Blacher prize in Berlin, George Mufat prize in Salzburg and Ludwig van Beethoven in Bonn. His works include choral, vocal-instrumental, orchestral, solo and chamber music
In the early years of his activity as a composer, Jacek Domagała was strongly influenced by his interest in J.S. Bach and in jazz music. The second stage of Jacek Domagała's artistic development owes much to the Second Viennese School (Schönberg, Berg, Webern), which had a powerful impact on the composer's musical language and the technique that he calls ‘neoserialism’. The composer applies precise notation and distances himself from aleatoricism, using that technique only fragmentarily. Contact with the Viennese modernist tradition had not only led to an evolution of Domagała's musical language, but also – and most importantly – influenced his way of building musical narration and the type of expression, rooted in postRomantic sound concepts.
Works:
Solo / chamber pieces:
- Three Polish Melodies for piano (1975)
- Cantique for organs (1976)
- Priere for organs (1978)
- Ave Maria Stella for organs (1980)
- Three Preludes for piano (1981)
- String Quartet No.1 (1984)
- Chamber Music for solo instruments and percussion (1985)
- Sonata No.1 for piano (1990)
- Three Miniatures for piano (1991)
- Splinters for flute, cello and piano (1993)
- Five Little Pieces for piano (1994)
- String Quartet No. 2 (1995)
- Three Inventions for piano (1996)
- Sonata No.2 for piano (1997)
- Mourning for cello and organs (1999)
- Crystals for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello and piano (2000)
- Elegy for voice, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, violin, viola, cello and bells (2002)
- Flashback for cello solo (2003)
- String Quartet No. 3 (2006)
- Three Songs for voice and piano (2008)
- Vitrail for piano (2011)
- Psalm for voice and string quartet (2014)
- Changements for cello solo (2015)
- Outrenoir for flute and piano (2016)
- Traces for string quartet (2018)
- Current for cello and clarinet (2019)
- Cassiopee II for flute and piano (2020)
Orchestra pieces:
- Continuum for string orchestra (1980)
- Chorale for symphonic orchestra (1981)
- For Five for string orchestra (1982)
- Triptych for symphonic orchestra (1987)
- Four Short Pieces for symphonic orchestra (1989)
- Two Pieces for symphonic orchestra (1990)
- Segments for symphonic orchestra (1994)
- Colors for string orchestra (1997)
- Normandie for symphonic orchestra (2014)
- Melting of Ice for symphonic orchestra (2016)
- PRISM for piano and orchestra (2017)
- Variations for string orchestra and piano on Adagio from Ludwig van Beethoven’s Op. 131 String Quartet (2019)
- C-19 for chamber orchestra (2020)
Vocal and vocal and instrumental pieces:
- Pater Noster for a mixed choir a capella (1986)
- Et Vidi Angelum Descendentem De Caelo for 7 a capella (1988)
- Psalm 25 for a mixed choir a capella (1991)
- Laudate Dominum for a mixed choir a capella (2007)
- Nocturn for a mixed choir and piano (2013)
- Ave Maria for a mixed choir a capella (2014)
Update: November 2020.
