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Marta Ptaszynska, composer, percussionist,
professor of music, was born in 1943 in Warsaw, Poland. She
completed her musical studies at the Academy of Music in Warsaw and
in Poznan, receiving three Master of Arts Diplomas with distinction:
in music theory, composition, and percussion performance. As a
French Government grant recipient, she studied composition in Paris
with Nadia Boulanger, attended classes of Olivier Messiaen at the
Conservatoire National, and worked at Groupe des Recherches
Musicales (GRM) at l'ORTF.
Since 1972 she has lived in the United States, where she came on the
invitation of the Cleveland Institute of Music to finalize her
studies in percussion performance and composition. In 1998 she was
appointed Professor in Music and Humanities at the University of
Chicago. Previously she was on the faculty of the Indiana University
School of Music in Bloomington, Indiana.
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Commissioned composer for:
2rd International Women's
Brass Conference
St. Louis, Missouri
1997
Scherzo di Fantasia
was premiered by
Gail Robertson |
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Her works have been performed at the ISCM World Music Days in
Stockholm, Brussels, and Oslo; the International Festival "Warsaw
Autumn" in Poland; the Gulbenkian Foundation Festival in Portugal;
the International Percussion Forum in Paris, France: the New Music
Forum in Mexico City; the Huddersfield New Music Festival in
England; Prix Futura in Berlin, the Schleswig-Holstein Festival and
the Heidelberg Contemporary Music Festival in Germany; the Salzburg
Festival; Aspen Music Festival and International Conventions of
Percussive Arts Society in USA, and the Vratislavia Cantans Oratorio
Festival in Poland.
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She has been commissioned by the
BBC, Sudwestdeutche Rundfunk the Kosciuszko Foundation (New York), the Polish Chamber Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia, the Pacifica String Quartet and International Caramoor Music Festival for Keiko Abe, and Evelyn Glennie. Additional commsissions include those by The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, to celebrate their centennial season and from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
In 2000 Marta Ptaszynska received an award from the Polish government for outstanding contributions to Polish culture. In 1995, she received the "Officer Cross of Merit" from the Republic of Poland. She is published by Theodore Presser.
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