Lidia Zielinska
From PSeME
Lidia Zielinska is a Polish composer living in Poznan. She studied composition at the State Higher School of Music in Poznan. She participated in numerous courses in composition and electronic music in Poland and abroad ('Musicultura' in Breukelen, the M. Deutsch Symphonic Workshop in Paris, courses organized by IRCAM in Kraków and by the Polish Society for Contemporary Music in Rydzyna and Wzdów). She also played the violin in the Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra and the 'Amadeus' Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra of Agnieszka Duczmal. She has received commissions from Polish Radio, the Solidarity Union, the Eighth Day Theatre, the Holland Dance Festival, Euro-Musik-Theater in Stuttgart, the Dutch ensemble 'de Ereprijs', Radio Sweden, and the Ministry of Culture of Baden-Württemberg. She worked as guest composer in the Electronic Music Studio IPEM/BRT in Ghent and the Electronic Music Studio in Stockholm, and as composer-in-residence at the Institute de la Musique Electroacoustique in Bourges. Lidia Zielinska has extensively published and lectured on contemporary Polish music, electroacoustic music, the history of experimental music, sound ecology and traditional Japanese music. Lidia Zielinska runs a composition class at the Music Academy in Poznan and the sound reception workshop at the city's Fine Arts Academy. She is a member of the Repertoire Committee of the 'Warsaw Autumn' Festival (1989-92 and from 1996) and of the Presidium of the Main Board of the Polish Composers' Union (from 2001). She served as Artistic Director of the 'Poznan Musical Spring' Festival of Polish Contemporary Music (1989-92) and of the 'Child and Sound' International Festival in Poznan. She was also a member of the Programme Committee of the ISCM World Music Days in Warsaw (1990-92), and has sat on the juries and served as consultant of numerous festivals in Poland, Sweden, Germany and Belarus.
The Rhapsody was commissioned by the Edmonton Composers' Society (Canada) and composed in 2004. My daughter Anna Zielińska was the first performer within her ElectromAnia Project during the Gelderse Muziek Zomer Festival in August 2004.
