Jagoda Szmytka

Jagoda Szmytka (born 1982 in Legnica) is a Polish composer. She has attracted attention for her style of music, which uses elements not only of sound, but also of the sense of space and visual arts, and also for her new opera, Dla głosów i rąk (For Voices and Hands).[1] She is a well-known composer in Poland[2] and has been recognized abroad, winning numerous juried scholarships, including the Staubach Honoraria for Composition.

Biography

Jagoda Szmytka studied history of art and philosophy at the University of Wrocław, Poland (2000-2005) as well as composition and music theory with Krystian Kiełb and Cezary Duchnowski at the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław. This was followed by postgraduate studies in composition with Pierluigi Billone and Beat Furrer at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (2007-2008), with Beat Furrer at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts (2008-2010), and with Wolfgang Rihm at the Karlsruhe University of Music (2010-2012).[3]

Szmytka has received numerous scholarships and grants from various foundations including Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research (ÖAD) (2008), an artist grant funded by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (2008), German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) (2008/09), a scholarship of the Oscar und Vera Ritter Stiftung (2010), a scholarship from the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation (2011), Alfred Toepfer Stiftung (2011), the Wolfgang Rihm Scholarship of the Hoepfner Foundation (2011),[4] and the Staubach Honorarium for Composition by the Darmstadt Summer Courses (2012).[5] In both 2011 and 2014 she was composer-in-residence at ZKM Karlsruhe, which in between those appointments she had served as composer-in-residence at La muse en Circuit Paris.[3] In 2015 she was awarded with the Villa Serpentara Scholarship 2016 by the Academy of Arts, Berlin.

Szmytka lives as a freelance composer in Frankfurt am Main.[6] Szmytka founded an artist's and musician's group called "Play" which meets biweekly and performs once a month.[7]

Work

Szmytka's work uses sound and also includes visual elements such as text, theatre and painting.[6]

The work on her release, "Bloody Cherries," was performed mainly by Ensemble Garage, and was considered to be sensual and gestural by Polityka.[8]

Szmytka’s compositions are featured at international festivals and institutions including Warsaw Autumn,[9][10] where she premiered "Lost."[11] She has also been performed at the Lucerne Festival, Festival Ultraschall Berlin, Wien Modern, Eclat-Festival Stuttgart, Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music, Musica Polonica Nova, Rheinsberger Musiktage, Deutschlandfunk Cologne, ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Polish National Opera Warsaw. Ensembles performing her works include Ensemble Garage, Ensemble Interface, ensemble recherche, European Workshop for Contemporary Music, IEMA, E-MEX Ensemble, Duo leise dröhnung, Kwartludum, Ensemble l’arsenale, Ensemble Besides.[3]

Works

Solo music

Chamber music

Works for ensemble

Stage Works

Discography

References

  1. ↑ Bylander, Cindy (April 2014). "Disorientation at the Warsaw Opera". Musical Opinion. 137 (1499). Retrieved 20 September 2015. (subscription required (help)).
  2. ↑ Schutz, Larissa (18 September 2015). "Sirenen im Kopf". Dreh Punkt Kultur (in German). Retrieved 20 September 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 "Freelance composer, born in 1982 in Legnica, now lives in Frankfurt". Culture Poland. Warsaw, Poland: Polish Composers' Union. 2011. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
  4. ↑ Press release by the Hoepfner Foundation: Wolfgang-Rihm-Stipendium an Jagoda Szmytka (in German). Retrieved 5 August 2015.
  5. ↑ Staubach Honoraria Winners. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
  6. 1 2 "Freelance composer, born in 1982 in Legnica, now lives in Frankfurt.". Culture.Pl. 4 June 2014. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
  7. ↑ Weber, Christina (24 July 2015). "Musikalisches Picknick am Main". Journal Frankfort (in German). Retrieved 20 September 2015.
  8. ↑ Szwarcman, Dorota (17 February 2015). "Recenzja płyty: Jagoda Szmytka, "Bloody Cherries"". Polityka. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
  9. ↑ "Tangible Sound: Viertägiges Festival des ZKM". Regio-News (in German). 18 September 2015. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
  10. ↑ Szwarcman, Dorota (15 September 2015). "Warszawska Jesień". Politika (in Polish). Retrieved 20 September 2015.
  11. ↑ "Warszawska Jesień 2015: Zderzenie ekstremów". Dziennik (in Polish). 18 September 2015. Retrieved 20 September 2015.

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