Category: Premieres

On 13 October 2012, two of Poland’s most distinguished soloists, flautist Agnieszka Kaćma and organist Jarosław Malanowicz, gave the Lithuanian première of Trop at the 9th Festival Musica Sacra in Kaunas.

On 29 September 2012, Agnieszka Kaćma, flute and Łukasz Mosur, organ, gave a performance of Trop (Polish for ‘track’ or ‘scent’, but also French for ‘too much’) at The Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, Poland.

World première of Τάρταρος – Symphonie électro-visuelle for digitally processed sounds and video (2009-2012) took place on 9 and 10 June 2012 at the Ledcor Theatre, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, AB. The four-movement work was commissioned for the Good Women Dance Collective with financial support provided by the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.

World premières of Struna srebra for piccolo alone (2011) and Kinneret version for alto flute and piano (1999, rev. 2012) took place on 19 May 2012, with a repeat performance on the following day, at the ABOUT Centre in Athens, Greece. The soloists were Iwona Glinka, flutes and Maria Aloupi, piano.

World première of Xρόνοστάσις (Theodore Antoniou at 77) for woodwind quintet (2012) took place on 24 April 2012. The work was presented by the excellent local ensemble, Aiolos Woodwind Quintet, at the Hellenic American University in Athens, Greece.

European première of Tombeau sur la mort de Monsieur Górecki for amplified alto flute, live electronics and orchestra (2010) took place on 20 April 2012, during the Festival of Polish Music at the Philharmonic Hall in Kielce, Poland. The soloist was Agnieszka Kaćma, the Kielce Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Maestro Alexander Walker from the United […]

World première of Τάρταρος IV for digitally processed sounds and video (2012) took place on 19 April 2012, during the Festival of Polish Music at the Philharmonic Hall in Kielce, Poland, as part of an all-Canadian multimedia performance.

World première of IWONAriette for flute solo (2012) was given by its dedicatee, Iwona Glinka, on 17 April 2012, in Cephalonia, Greece.

World première of … about to dawn … for piano trio (2011) took place on Friday, 13 April 2012 (given the nature of the piece, a very fitting, sad and unlucky date…). The work was presented by the outstanding local ensemble, The Warszynski Trio, at the Muttart Hall, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

World première of Stolte for computer soundtrack, live electronics and alto saxophone (2010) was given by its dedicatee, Charles Stolte, on 16 March 2012, as part of the Biennial Conference of the North American Saxophone Alliance. The performance took place at the Arizona State University in Phoenix, AZ, USA.