|
|
Borkowski, Marian (b. 1934, Pabianice). Polish composer of mostly orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal, and piano works that have been performed throughout the world.
Prof. Borkowski studied composition with Kazimierz Sikorski and piano with Jan Ekier and Natalia Hornowska at the Frédéric Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw from 1959-65, where he earned his MA in both subjects. He also studied musicology with Józef M. Chominski at Warsaw University from 1959-66 and there earned an additional MA. He then studied composition with Nadia Boulanger and Olivier Messiaen at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris from 1966-68 and musicology with Barry S. Brook and Jacques Chailley at the Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne from 1966-68, both on a grant from the government of France. He later attended Darmstadt in 1972 and 1974, as well as courses with Franco Donatoni at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena in 1973 and 1975, where he earned a Diploma di Merito, and with Iannis Xenakis at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.
His honors include Second Prize in the young composers competition in Warsaw (1966, for Dram), a prize in the G.B. Viotti competition in Vercelli (1969, for Toccata) and Third Prize in the Karol Szymanowski competition in Warsaw (1974, for Acclamations). He has also received three awards of the Minister of Culture and Art (1976, 1980, 1982), the Silver Cross of Merit in Poland (1977), Silver Medal in the Premio Vittorio Gui in Florence (1979), and the Medal of the Frédéric Chopin Academy of Music (1981). Most recently, he has earned the Polonia Restituta Cross (order of the knight, 1984; order of the commander, 2002) and First Prize in the International New Music competition in New York (1990, for Pax in terra II).
He is also active in other positions. As a pianist, he was primarily active in the 1950s and 1960s and played his own works and works by other modern composers, including Andrzej Dutkiewicz, Witold Lutoslawski, Krzysztof Penderecki, Boguslaw Schäffer, Karol Szymanowski, and Anton Webern, in Austria, Canada, France, Italy, Poland, Russia, and the USA. He served as deputy chairman of the Warsaw branch of the Polish Composers Union from 1971-77. He later founded the Festival of the Laboratory of Contemporary Music Society in Warsaw in 1985 and has since served as its artistic director. In addition, he has served as chairman of the Academic Council of the Polish Institute of Music in Lódz since 1985 and as president of the Laboratory of Contemporary Music Society since 1995.
He has taught composition and orchestration at the Frédéric Chopin Academy of Music since 1968, where he has been a full professor since 1989, chair of the music theory department since 1993 and dean of the composition, conducting and music theory faculty since 1996. There he also served as vice-president from 1978-81 and 1987-90 and has organized the post-graduate courses in music theory since 1998 and in composition since 2000. In addition, he has taught as a visiting professor at numerous universities in Canada, France, Italy, South Korea, and the USA.
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail address: borkowski@chopin.edu.pl
Street address: Prof. Marian Borkowski, ul. Klaudyny 6, M. 83, 01-684 Warsaw, Poland
Telephone: + 482 2833 6859
COMPLETE LIST OF WORKS
ORCHESTRAL: Spheres, small orchestra, 1961; Dram, large orchestra, 1966; Limits, large orchestra, 1971; Mont, large orchestra, 1978; Concerto, any string instrument, large orchestra, 1985-86; Ritornello, large orchestra, 1992; Con-son, string orchestra, 2001; Visions, string orchestra, 2003
CHAMBER MUSIC: Visions, cello, 1962; Comes, flute, oboe, clarinet, French horn, string quartet, double bass, 1974; Images II, any string instrument, 1975; Variant, flute, clarinet, French horn, violin, viola, cello, double bass, piano, 1976 (also version with 4 violins, 3 violas, 2 celli instead of single strings); Speranza, flute, piano, 1976; Vox, any brass instrument, 1977; Spectra, percussion, 1980; Dynamics, 6 percussion, 1981; Apasionante, any brass instrument, any string instrument, 1983; Prologue, trumpet, organ, 1990; Metallica, French horn, 2 trumpets, trombone, tuba, 1999; DIX, French horn, 2 trumpets, trombone, tuba, 2002
CHORAL: Acclamations (texts from ancient Byzantine sources [translated by Egon Wellesz]), female chorus, 2 mixed choruses, male chorus, organ, 6 ensembles (32 violins, 12 double basses; 2 percussion; 2 flutes, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, timpani; 2 flutes, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, timpani; 2 flutes, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, 2 percussion; 2 flutes, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, 2 harps, 2 percussion), 1964; Epitaphium (vocalise), 24 female voices, flute, oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, 3 French horns, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, 3 percussion, 1968; Lullaby (vocalise), mixed chorus, 1970; Mater mea (text by Krzysztof Kamil Baczynski), mixed chorus, 1982; Adoramus, mixed chorus, 1991; Hosanna, mixed chorus, trumpet, trombone, organ, 2 percussion, 1993; Regina caeli, mixed chorus, 1995; Kassándra (vocalise), female voice, mixed chorus, small orchestra, 1996-97; De profundis, mixed chorus, large orchestra, 1998; Ave-Alleluia-Amen, mixed chorus, 2000; Dies Irae, mixed chorus, large orchestra, 2004
VOCAL: Lyrical Preludes (text by Konstanty Ildefons Galczynski), soprano, piano, 1962; Aria (vocalise), soprano, flute, harp, cello, double bass, piano, timpani, vibraphone, 1963; Selection for 5 (vocalise), soprano, flute, French horn, cello/double bass, piano, 1972; Images I (vocalise), any voice, 1973; Norwidiana 75 (vocalise), female voice, clarinet, trombone, cello, piano, 2 percussion, 1975; Pax in terra I (text from the words "Pax in terra"), female voice, 4 guitar groups (1-50 guitars each), tubular bells, 1987; Pax in terra II (text from the words "Pax in terra"), female voice, organ, 4 percussion, 1988
PIANO: Two Mazurkas, 1958; Toccata, 1960; Sonata, 1961; Fragmenti, 1962; Dialoghi, 2 pianos, 1977
ORGAN: Psalmus, 1975
(Last updated on March 19, 2004)
