Klaudia Pasternak (born 1980) is a Polish contemporary composer and opera conductor,Music testosterone or young women conductors interview 2008, Tygodnik Przeglad (Weekly Review) who has twice been nominated for the prestigious Paszport Polityki (Policy Passport).
Life Pasternak was born in Warsaw, Poland, to a musical family. At the age of 12, she began composing her own music, her first piece being a Suite for piano. At the age of 11, she started playing percussion and studied with Bogdan Lauks, in the Music High School of Józef Elsner. She also began to conduct at that time. At the age of 17, she received her first composer award. In 2000 she began studies at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw. She studied composition with Stanisław Moryto and symphony – opera with Tomasz Bugaj.
Pasternak lives and works in Warsaw. She is also involved in supporting democratic values and woman rights in Poland and abroad.Family isn’t most important, confession of the most famous Polish conductor, interview 2010, iWoman
Events
In 2000 and 2005 Pasternak received a scholarship from The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in Poland. In 2000 and 2005 she was nominated to Policy Passport in the Music category.Nominees, Policy Passport In 2000, she participated in the 20th International Composers Course in Radziejowice, organized by the Society for Contemporary Music, where she met Christina Asher, Zygmunt Krauze, Wojciech Michniewski, Louis Andriessen and Hanna Kulenty. In 2003, Pasternak conducted lectures about Polish contemporary music (including her own) at the University of Oregon. In 2003 she participated in masterclasses of conducting led by Antoni Wit, in Austria. In 2005 she took part in composition masterclasses led by French composer Betsy Jolas, in France. In 2006 she received two scholarships from the prestigious scholarship project Młoda Polska (Young Poland) founded by The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, as well as the Creativity Support Fund scholarship founded by the Association of Stage Writers and Composers ZAiKS. In 2010 she became a finalist in the composer competition Unique forms of continuity in space organized by the Italian Institute in Melbourne, Australia.
Broadcast Her music was broadcast in Poland and abroad including the public Polish Television (TVP), Campus Radio, Polish Radio Second Channel PR 2, Polish Bis Radio, Hamburg Radio, Katowice Radio, Denmark Radio. As a composer she was involved with the production of the television series Dolina Kreatywna, czyli czego szuka mloda sztuka (Creative Valley) created by Polish Television TVP2.
Composition
Pasternak in her works combines modern composition techniques with traditional means of expression. Piano and vocals play special roles in her work.
Awards 1st Prize: Second National Composer Competition ”Patri Patriae” in Katowice dedicated to Pope John Paul II for piece Pictures from Tatry, for string trio. Chairman of the jury was Wojciech Kilar, 1998 2nd Prize: Third International Composers Competition ”Premio Citta di Pescara”, for piece Cogitationes, for piano, Italy 2000Pasternak in Citta di Pescara , 2000, Polish Music Reference Center 3rd Prize: Ivan Spassov International Composers Competition for piece Kayo, for vocal bass and piano, Bulgaria 2001 3rd Prize: Composer Competition in memory of Adam Didur, in Sanok, for piece Kayo, for vocal bass and piano, 2001 2nd Prize: Seventh Composers Competition ”Musica Sacra” in Czestochowa, for piece Ave vere, for mixed choir, 2002: Three prizes on Composers Competition ”Waging peace through singing” among 700 participation pieces from around the world, United States 2002: Highest Honour – piece Sancte Angele Dei, for mixed choir Top Honour – piece The Song, for female choir Honour – emerging composer for piece Kayo, for vocal bass and pianoWaging peace through singing , awarded pieces iwagepeace 2nd Prize – the first was not awarded: Fifth Edition of the International Composer Competition ”Citta di Pescara”, for piece Seven faces of... , for piano, Italy 2006
Performances
Pasternak's compositions have been performed around the world including Germany, Denmark, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, France, Italy, Switzerland, the United States, Japan and Sweden, during such events as:
Young Talented Concert at National Philharmonic in Warsaw • Schumannfest Festival 2004 in Düsseldorf, Germany • Oregon Bach Festival in PortlandJanos Gereben z The Register-Guard , July 2002, OBF • Choral Festivals in Portland • Chicago • Florida • frequently in Polish Radio Recording Studio of Witold Lutosławski including series of concerts titled "Warsaw Generations" • Music Academy in Lucerne, Switzerland • Organ Seminars in Legnica • IV Festival of Paschal Music in Poznań • VII International Festival of Sacral Songs "Lapskie Te Deum" • Arizona State Universityrepository ASU piece Eleven breaths of..., concert program, 1 October 2006, ASU • Northern Arizona University • I National Choral Competition "Ars Liturgica" in Toruń • concerts at Music Theatre in Lublin • XXIV Choral Meetings in Gliwice • Contemporary Music Festival of Witold Lutoslawski in Szczecin • Festival of Contemporary Music "Musikhost" – Polish Days in Denmark • International Festival "Musica Sacra" in Częstochowa • VI European Choral Meetings in Warsaw • VIII International Choral Competition in Slovenia • Lenten Concert at Polish National Opera in Warsaw • Concert of the Youth of Polish Composer Union ZKP during Warsaw AutumnWarsaw Autumn – additional events piece Trans.For.My.Emptines (Transforma), 20 September 2008 Warsaw, Polish Music Information Center • Choral concerts in Kyoto, JapanEnsemble Academy Kyoto , piece Sancte Angele Dei, 11 October 2009 Japan, kcat • Polish Composers Warsaw Branch concert of series "Musical Seasons – Autumn"Warsaw Autumn – Musical Seasons, program 2012, Warsaw Autumn • Choral concerts in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Performers
The performers of Pasternak compositions were outstanding artists and ensembles in Poland and abroad:
Silesia String QuartetSilesia Quartet, world premieres 2004 • notabu.ensamble. under the baton of Marek Andreas Schlingensiepen • Pacific Youth Choir conducted by Mia Savage • Alla Polacca Choir conducted by Sabina Wlodarska • Wilanow String Quartet • pianist Maria Gabrys • organist Pawel Wrobel • pianist Marek Bracha • Oregon Repertory Singers conducted by Gil Seeley • saxophonist Piotr Wysocki • Czestochowa Philharmonic • saxophonist Dariusz Samol • harpsichordist and fortepianist Pawel Siwczak • double bass player Adam Bogacki • Camerata Silesia Choir • bass-baritone Grzegorz Szostak • Musica Viva Chamber Choir of Economic University in Poznań • soprano Dorota Laskowiecka • orchestra of Music Theater in Lublin • orchestra of Mazovian Music Theater in Warsaw • Camerata Jagellonica Academic Choir of Jagiellonian University • Vocal Art Ensemble • Ensemble Academy Kyoto • Grażyna Szapołowska.
Records
In 2005, the composition Ave vere was released on CD by the publisher Acte PréalableActe Prealable AP0196 and on the album "Credo" by the choir "Musica Viva" in 2006.musicaviva.pl, media, record collection, Credo 2005 Item 11 In 2006, the composition Ave Stella Matutina was released on "Songs of Light" album by the Pacific Youth Choir in United States. In 2007, Pasternak completed a series of recordings of her works in the Recording Studio of Radio Katowice. In 2010, composition Sancte Angele Dei was released on DVD by Ensemble Academy Kyoto in Japan.
Conducting
2003: cooperation with Baden Sinfonietta, Austria 2005: cooperation with Czestochowa Philharmonic 2005: cooperation with Warsaw Philharmonic 2007/2008: cooperation with Music Theatre in Lublin, including Verdi's La Traviata directed by Waldemar Zawodzinski and Janina Niesobska (titled role played by Jaonna Wos); series of performances of Der Zigeunerbaron by Johann Strauss; Der Vogelhändler by Zeller, Fiddler on the Roof by Jerry Bock, Die Fledermaus by Strauss; conducting her own overture titled Operture in order of The Jubilee Concert of the 60th Music Theatre Anniversary 2008/2009: cooperation with Mazovian Music Theatre in Warsaw, conducting concerts and performances including Die Fledermaus with famous Polish actor Daniel Olbrychski; preparing premiere of Gräfin Mariza by Kálmán, contained her own jazz arrangement Orpheum, performed by Grażyna Szapołowska 2009: cooperation with Grand Opera in Łódź, preparing premiere of Carl Maria Weber's Der Freischütz
Selected works Obrazki z Tatr (Pictures from Tatry) for string trio, 1998 Ave vere for mixed choir, 1998 Cogitationes for piano, op. 1, 1999 Piesn (The Song) for female choir, 1999 Diabolicus for violin, cello, electric guitar and piano, 2000 Preludium 2000 for orchestra, nr 1, 2000 Sancte Angele Dei for mixed choir, op. 2 nr 1, 2001 Kayo for vocal bas and piano, op. 3, 2001; Outsiede for cello, op. 4 nr 1, 2002 Psalmy 42/22/11 (Psalms No. 42/22/11) for baritone and church organ, 2002 Dawid i Goliat for double bass, op. 4 nr 2, 2002 Ave stella matutina for female choir, op. 2 nr 2, 2003 Siedem twarzy... (Seven faces of...) for piano, op. 6, 2003 Devil's elbow for string quartet, op. 8, 2004 Fantazja na temat Schumanna (Fantasy on the Theme of Schumann) for piano and chamber orchestra, op. 1 nr 2, 2004 Jedenascie oddechow... (Eleven breaths of...) for sax,repository ASU audio file, right column, ASU 2006 2005 Trans.For.My.Emptiness (Transforma) for church organ, 2008 Tule Cie do serca (Cuddling to the heart) lullaby for soprano and string quartet (lyrics by composer), 2009 Misterium Iniquitatis oratorio for mezzo-soprano, male voice and church organ, 2015 Jekyll & Hyde-case study for two violins, 2015 Piesni do slow wlasnych (Songs to own words) for soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone and string orchestra, 2016 Nowele rzymskie (Roman stories), ballet triptych, 2016
References
External links Official website Pasternak page at the Polish Music Center Klaudia Pasternak, Culture.pl