Magdalena Długosz was born on 23rd March 1954 in Kraków. In 1978, she graduated from the Academy of Music in Kraków, where she studied composition with Krystyna Moszumańska-Nazar and music theory with Józef Patkowski. Since 1979 she has been teaching in the Electroacoustic Music Studio at the Academy of Music in Kraków, where she also produced her first works.
Subsequent compositions by Długosz were created at the Polish Radio Experimental Studio in Warsaw, EMS Elektronmusikstudion in Stockholm, CECM Centre for Electroacoustic and Computer Music in Bratislava, GRAM Groupe de Recherche Appliquée en Musique Electroacoustique in Lyon and the Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique in Bourges, France. In 2013, she was awarded a postdoctoral degree in musical arts.
Already during my studies, I met two important figures, two amazing musicians and teachers – Prof. Krystyna Moszumańska-Nazar and Prof. Józef Patkowski – personalities that influenced my choices at that time. Thanks to these people and their inspirations, I fairly quickly realised what would become the theme, the dominant motif, the aim of my explorations and experiments in my work. These were: colour, space, microtonality, tension and expression, interpretation. Even then, they occupied a privileged position in my compositional reflections. Soon, I became convinced that my place in the music world is electroacoustic music, a field of creativity, which, when you put on headphones, allows you to isolate yourself from everyday life, from ordinariness, from copying what is found in the world of contemporary music.
Quote from Magdalena Długosz’s summary of professional accomplishments connected with postdoctoral proceedings at the Academy of Music in Kraków
Works by Magdalena Długosz have been performed at festivals of contemporary music in Poland (Warsaw, Poznań, Wrocław, Gdańsk, Kraków) and abroad (Nuremberg, Cologne, Berlin, Dresden, Hamburg, Stockholm, Oslo, Bratislava, Lyon, Seoul, Daegu, Washington, Strasburg, Stuttgart, Bourges, Lvov, Minsk).
In 2013, her monographic album, Muzyka Polska Dzisiaj – Portrety Współczesnych Kompozytorów Polskich (Polish Music Today – Portaits of Contemporary Polish Composers), was released in the Polish Composers’ Union / Polish Music Information Centre publishing series in cooperation with the Polish Radio.
Magdalena Długosz has been a member of the Polish Composers’ Union since 1995, and since 1999, a member of the Repertoire Committee of the ‘Warsaw Autumn’ International Festival of Contemporary Music.
In 2013, her monographic album, Muzyka Polska Dzisiaj – Portrety Współczesnych Kompozytorów Polskich (Polish Music Today – Portaits of Contemporary Polish Composers), was released in the Polish Composers’ Union / Polish Music Information Centre publishing series in cooperation with the Polish Radio.
Magdalena Długosz has been a member of the Polish Composers’ Union since 1995, and since 1999, a member of the Repertoire Committee of the ‘Warsaw Autumn’ International Festival of Contemporary Music.
Wybrane kompozycje
- Quaerens for tape (1977)
- Visus for 5 instruments and tape (1978)
- Gej for tape (1978)
- Modus for tape (1979-80)
- Spatial Arrangement for small orchestra and electronic devices (1980)
- Pulsations for tape (1983)
- Mictlan I for tape (1987)
- Mictlan II for accordion, digital reverb and tape (1988)
- I tak, i nie for tape (1990)
- U źródła for tape (1990-91)
- Lenyon for tape (1994-95)
- Patjan for percussion and tape (1996-97)
- Tabama for tape (1997-98)
- Tabar for electrinically transformed double bass and digital sound track (1998-2000)
- Zakopane liryki for electronically modified clarinet and digital sound track (1999-2000)
- Burlata for marimbaphone, synthesizer and electronics (2001)
- Ombraggio for violin and electroacoustic track (2002-2003)
- Ombrarchetto for tape (2003)
- Abamus for viola and electroacoustic track (2003-2004)
- Zakopane liryki [version II] for saxophone and digital score (2004)
- Nemini molestus for tape, text by Mikołaj Rej (2004-2005)
- Jak daleko...?, selection of poems ks. Jan Twardowski for tape (2005)
- Józefowi na Pożegnanie - 26.X.2005 for tape (2005)
- Gemisatos for orchestra, percussion and electroacoustic track (2005-2006)
- Milczące asfodele for flutes, viola and electronics (2006)
- OceanCity, 8-channel electroacoustic composition to the French ballet project by P. Deloche (2007)
- Poza ciszę, 8-channel electroacoustic composition (2007-2008)
- DesAkorDar for accordion, 4 trombones, percussion and electroacoustics (2008)
- SaxSpaCeS for alto saxophone and electroacoustics (2008-2009)
BisAkordaR, electroacoustic composition (2010)
- SaxSpiro for saxophones and electroacoustics (2011)
- MonoGram - HoloGram, electoacoustic piece (2012)
- SaxInSpiro, electoacoustic piece (2013)
- TReM for two acoustic instruments and computer (2013-2014)
Source: Polish Music Information Centre, October 2002, update: May 2016, translated into Polish by P. Grabowski, December 2021
