Zygmunt Krauze

Zygmunt Krauze

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Zygmunt Krauze studied at the Warsaw State Higher School of Music (now the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music) – piano with Maria Wiłkomirska and composition with Kazimierz Sikorski. He continued studies in Paris with Nadia Boulanger. He is a professor of composition at the Łódź Academy of Music, from 2006 to 2010 he also worked at his alma mater. He has also lectured and given master classes at universities in Japan, South Korea, China and the USA. As a concert pianist, he has performed on the world’s most important stages. In 1967, he founded the ensemble “Musical Workshop”, with which he premiered over a hundred compositions by leading contemporary composers. At the invitation of Pierre Boulez, he became an artistic consultant to IRCAM in Paris. From 1987 to 1990, he was the president of the International Society for Contemporary Music, and for two decades, he was chairman of its Polish section. Krauze divides his works into four categories: unistic music inspired by the paintings of Władysław Strzemiński, spatial compositions made in specially arranged interiors, “music about music” dealing with allusions and quotations, and a subjective, deeply expressive “music of returning to the roots.” The piano occupies a special place in the composer’s output, often treated unconventionally (amplification in Stone Music, 1972; detuning in One Piano Eight Hands, 1973; theatrical elements in Gloves Music, 1972). In addition, the artist has in his portfolio six operas and a great deal of incidental music for theater (in collaboration with the director Jorge Lavelli).

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