Sa 03.03.2012 19.30 Uhr
Musikhochschule Münster

International School of Traditional Music aus Lublin in Münster bei KlangZeit 2012
Gesamtprogramm: http://www.klangzeit-muenster.de
Ein deutsch-polnisches Austauschprogramm von KlangZeit Münster und KODY festival Lublin.

KlangZeit 5: United!
Frederic Rzewski: »The People United Will Never Be Defeated«
mitDaan Vandewalle, Klavier
Aleksander Kosciów (PL): Gorzkie zale [Lenten lamentations]
Ensemble der »International School of Traditional Music«
und das Celloensemble der Musikhochschule Münster
unter Leitung von Matias de Oliveira Pinto

Darüber hinaus wird die Chorleiterin Monika Mamińska einen Gesangs-Workshop für Frauen
zu traditionellen Gesangstechniken aus Polen geben
Sa. 3. März 2012, 10 – 17 Uhr, (max. 20 Teilnehmerinnen)

Koordination & Anmeldung:
Barbara Besser babesser@muenster.de
Teilnehmerbeitrag 40,- €


Gorzkie żale (Lenten Lamentations)

Music: Aleksander Kościów
Cast: The International School of Traditional Music Ensemble - Anastazja Bernad, Zofia Bernad, Maria
Bikont, Ewa Grochowska Magdalena Jakubowska, Olga Kozieł, Hanna Linkowska, Magdalena Sawicka
„Gorzkie żale” (Lenten Lamentations) is a Catholic devotion service conducted only in Poland. It dates back to the turn of the 18th century, when medieval passion plays were still performed. However, piety of people in Baroque asked for a new form of worship - services which not only report on biblical events but bring the faithful closer to the passion of Christ.
Polish composer of contemporary music Aleksander Kościow composed a musical piece especially for the II Festival of Traditional and Avant-garde Music CODES (Lublin) which combines traditional Polish lament songs from the Lublin region with a cello octet. The marriage of “Gorzkie żale” - sung in the same folk mould of white voices – with an extraordinarily artistic and deep body made of eight cellos is an unusual musical experience. It is also a significantly mystical experience. It's a kind of journey through a narrow, rarely used path on the border of conventions: classical expression, folklore and contemplative prayer. Music understood as a work of contemporary art, as a religious mystery, as an echo of old vocal techniques.
Aleksander Kościów
Born in 1974, he graduated from the Warsaw Academy of Music, the class of composition of prof. M. Borkowski and viola of prof. B. Sroczyński. He won many competitions for composers, was the holder of the Fulbright scholarship in 2004. He collaborated with Joe Alter, a modern ballet choreographer from the USA. He wrote many feature articles on the broad subject of music perception (especially for “Strony”, a magazine published in Opole). His pieces were performed not only in Poland but also in France, Germany, USA, Russia, Japan, South Korea, Great Britain and Ukraine. At the moment he works as a teacher at his Alma Mater.
The International School of Traditional Music Ensemble
The ensemble came into being in 1999 under the auspices of the “Muzyka Kresów” Foundation. Since its inception the ensemble has been led by Jan Bernad and Monika Mamińska, who have been organizing traditional music workshops all over Poland since the late 1990s. Approximately two thousand people have so far participated in the workshops and summer schools, the most promising of whom have been co-opted to join the ensemble.
The ensemble's primary objective is to preserve and creatively cultivate the tradition of Polish folk songs. To do so, its members are well versed in various archaic techniques of traditional singing, typified by raw, natural sound, characteristic breath control and aesthetics far removed from both bel canto and the stylings of popular music. So far the ensemble has recorded and released three albums, namely, Pieśni Polskie (Polish Songs), Kołysanki (Lullabies), Polskie Pieśni Wielkopostne (Polish Lent Songs). It frequently gives concerts in Poland as well as abroad and has also taken part in theatrical performances. Its regular repertoire includes the traditional Polish Songs sequence and Three Sounds, the latter of which is closer aesthetically to contemporary music. In 2006 the ensemble participated in the 49th International Festival of Contemporary Music – Warsaw Autum in Jerzy Kornowicz’s, Jacek Kochan’s and Jarosław Siwiński’s projects. The ensemble has been in concert with many outstanding artists such as: Tomasz Stańko, Krzysztf Knittel, Tadeusz Wielecki and Jerzy Kornowicz.