Tadeusz Wielecki

From PSeME

Born in Warsaw in 1954, he studied the double bass and composition (with Włodzimierz Kotoński) at the Academy of Music in Warsaw. Thanks to a Witold Lutosławski grant, he continued his compositional studies abroad, with Isang Yun in West Berlin and Klaus Huber in Freiburg on Br. (1986–87). As a double bass player he focuses on the solo contemporary repertoire. He has performed in many European countries, Asia and the United States. He is also active in the field of promoting contemporary music and arts education. He ran several cycles of radio programmes introducing children into the world of new music and cooperated with the Children’s Arts Centre in Poznań. He was Artistic Director of the iscm World Music Days in Warsaw in 1992. He was invited as a lecturer to the Darmstadt courses, where he also premiered his piece The Whisper of Semitones for double bass and chamber ensemble, commissioned by the Courses. In February 2005 he gave lectures at the Florida State University in Tallahassee. Tadeusz Wielecki’s latest orchestral work (Shoals) – commissioned by the Klangspuren Festival in Schwaz, Austria – has been included in the programme of the event (September, 2005).

He has served as Director of the Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music since 1999.

Selected works (since 1984): Opened Series IV for double bass (1984), Trio for Violin, Double Bass and Piano (1985), Recitative Music for percussion, piano, violin, viola and double bass (1985), Collage-Tango for piano (1985; version for chamber orchestra – 1995), Ductus for small string orchestra and harpsichord (1985), Chamber Poem for two violins, double bass and piano (1986), Numerous Branches of Ramified Plaits for clarinet, piano and cello (1987), Opened Series V for double bass (1988), Gestures of Soul for organ, accordion, synthesizer, guitar and percussion (1989), Metaphysical Ballad for orchestra (1990), A Thread Is Spinning... I for cello (1991), A Thread Is Spinning... II for violin (1992), A Thread Is Spinning... III for double bass (1992), Opened Series VI for double bass (1993), Out of the Depths I Sing... for wind instruments, strings and percussion (1993), Beggar’s Ballad for chamber ensemble (1994), Egocentric poem for amplified piano and tape (1994–95), Id for orchestra (1995–96), Study of Gesture I for clarinet, piano and cello (1995), Study of Gesture II for piano (1997), Concerto ą rebours for violin and orchestra (1998), ThŹsis for solo flute (2000), Study of Gesture III for clarinet, trombone, piano, cello and double bass (2000), Credo, quia absurdum for tape and female dancer (2001), Time of Stones for chamber ensemble and amplified double bass (2002), Surfaces for orchestra (2002), String Quartet (2004), The Whisper of Semitones for double bass and chamber ensemble (2004), Shoals for symphony orchestra (2005).