Abel Korzeniowski
Music for drama
© 2005 Abel Korzeniowski (634479077944)
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best tracks from four plays: I Served the English King, Kafka, the Tempest, Antigone
tracks
- 1 Danube
- 2 Slava
- 3 Dumka
- 4 Tango
- 5 Memoirs
- 6 Intermezzo
- 7 Amalia
- 8 Song of Time
- 9 Ariel's Dance
- 10 Ariel's Tears
- 11 Dance of the Tempest
- 12 Stasimon I
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Born on the 18th of July, 1972, in Cracow, Poland. In 1996 graduated the instrumental studies (specialisation: cello), and then in 2000 graduated with merit from the composition class of Krzysztof Penderecki at the Music Academy in Cracow. At the same Academy, in the years 1999-2000, he was an assistant at the Department of Composition, Conducting and Musical Theory.
His compositions were performed at the most important festivals in Poland, Germany, Slovakia, Moldavia, Ukraine and Belarus. He also composed music for numerous drama plays and films - features, documentaries and shorts.
In 1998 he received the Creative Scholarship of the President of Cracow in the category of music composition. Two years later, at the 25th Polish Feature Film Festival in Gdynia he received the Golden Lions - individual award for the musical score to the film "Big Animal".
In 2001 he was nominated by "Film" monthly to their Golden Duck award for extraordinary achievement in film music. At the same time "Cinema" monthly included him on their list of top Polish film music composers. Also in 2001 his symphonic composition Hypnosis had its premiere in Berlin (the orchestra was Sinfonietta Cracovia, conducted by Krzysztof Penderecki), which was broadcast live by Deutsche Radio.
In 2002 he received Ludwik award (a theatre award from the city of Cracow) for the score to "Kafka", and also Jancio Wodnik award at Prowincjonalia Film Festival, for his score for the feature film "An Angel in Cracow". According to "Kino" monthly, his music for the controversial documentary "Evolution" (the film was awarded the prestigous Golden Gate Award at the 45th Film Festival in San Francisco) was an achievement of an entirely original kind.
In 2004 he created a new score for Fritz Lang's "Metropolis". A monumental 147-minute composition for an 90-piece orchestra, 60 choir and 2 solo voices ambitiously re-interprets the silent movie from 1926.
Selected filmography:
"Big Animal" (2000, dir. Jerzy Stuhr)
"Evolution" (2001, dir. Borys Lankosz)
"An Angel in Cracow" (2002, dir. Artur "Baron" Wiecek)
"Tomorrow's Weather" (2003, dir. Jerzy Stuhr)
"Metropolis" (2004, dir. Fritz Lang)
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Why isn't this guy a superstar?
author: Ian P.This CD is perfect for the soundtrack of life and you can see the stories being told with each note of music. I actually had a small exchange with the artist and he is interested in his fans. The songs labeled THE TEMPEST really are inspirational. Gonna have to choreograph something to that. Support this guy! Why isn't he a superstar? Someone needs to take the classical music scene into the next century. Hope to see this guy in the history books one day!