Magdalena Długosz,
composer, b. 23 March 1954 in Cracow, she works and lives in that city. Graduated in composition from the Music Academy in Cracow after studies with Krystyna Moszumańska-Nazar (1978) and in music theory (studies with Józef Patkowski). Since 1979, she has taught classes in the Electroacoustic Music Studio in her alma mater, where she also prepared her first compositions. On the later ones, she also worked in the Polish Radio Experimental Studio in Warsaw (SEPR – incl. Mictlan I, which received an honourable mention at the 3rd International Rostrum of Electroacoustic Music in Oslo, as well as TaBar and TaBaMa), in Stockholm’s Elektronmusikstudion (EMS – the piece entitled Pulsations) and Radio Bratislava’s Centrum pre elektroakustickú a computerovú hudbu (CECM – At the Source).
She also collaborates with electroacoustic music centres in France. Her Lenyon and Océan Cité were composed for the GRAME (Groupe de Recherche Appliquée en Musique Electroacoustique) Studio in Lyon, and her Beyond Silence, premiered with the use of the Cybernéphone Instrument system – for IMEB (Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges). The latter two compositions were nominated for the OPUS Public Media Award (2008, 2009) and both reached the finals. The composer’s contacts with the musical environment of Paris resulted in the composition SaxSpiro, prepared in collaboration with the eminent saxophone player Daniel Kientzy.
Many of Magdalena Długosz’s works have been produced at home in the peace and quiet of her own mini-studio. These include Gemisatos for orchestra, concertante percussion, computer and live electronics, which was recommended at the prestigious International Rostrum of Composers in Paris in 2009.
The work TReM was composed as the Polish Composers' Union commission and co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Poland, within the framework of the “Collections – the priority Composers’ Commissions” programme (2014) implemented by the Institute of Music and Dance.
Magdalena Długosz is also a distinguished lecturer at the Chair of Composition, Academy of Music in Cracow. In 2010 she received the Award of the Polish Composers’ Union “for outstanding compositions and her contribution to the development of electroacoustic music.”
Her pieces have been performed at contemporary music festivals in Poland (Warsaw, Poznań, Wrocław, Gdańsk, Kraków) and abroad (Nuremberg, Cologne, Berlin, Dresden, Hamburg, Stockholm, Oslo, Bratislava, Lyon, Seoul, Taegu, Washington, Strasbourg, Stuttgart, Bourges, Lvov, Minsk).
In 2013, Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC, in co-operation with Polish Radio SA and thanks to the generous support of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, released an audio CD dedicated to her music, as part of the the Polish Music Today – Portraits of Contemporary Polish Composers series.
Since 1995, she has been a member of the Polish Composers' Union; since 1999 – of the Repertoire Committee of the “Warsaw Autumn” International Festival of Contemporary Music.
updated: May 2016 (wa), May 2018 (iz)
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