The 29th International Festival May with Early Music (Autumn Edition) solo and duo (w/ Jerzy Zak, premiering reconstructed pieces by S.L. Weiss, D. Cato and some of my original works on baroque lute, romantic and classical guitar.
Marek Pasieczny and Jerzy Żak
Marek Pasieczny and Jerzy Żak
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One of the largest chamber music pieces I’ve done to date is completed. Based on my monumental duo piece for two guitars titled ‘Ex Nihilo (Nihil Fit)’ premiered earlier this year in Zurich (with Vojin Kocic). Now with entire new extended version for large guitar ensemble (for up to 21 players + two soloists). Commissioned by Prof Thomas Offermann, who will conduct the premiere in November, this year in Germany.
‘Dodecaphonic Prelude and Fugue’ came spontaneously into being in July ‘20 towards the end of the global lockdown brought about by the COVID‐19 pandemic. It was a compositional challenge I posed for myself to create a piece based entirely on mathematical structures shaped by the twelve‐tone technique (also known as ‘dodecaphony’). It is a technique which I have not used in over 15 years.
For me, dodecaphony, being totally free of the gravity of a tonal language, is at once liberating but with an element of ‘soullessness’ to it. One loses the sense of a ‘tonic’ base and the harmonic and melodic gravitation it holds. Yet – using a familiar and ‘tonal’ form of the prelude and fugue, the human ear can find (or perhaps wants to find) the base, the tonic and familiar tonal triads to gravitate towards. The experience has been truly liberating and, at the same time, surprising for me.
The piece is based strictly on a planned structure and was written simultaneously in two versions: for solo piano (dedicated to Carl Petersson) and solo guitar (to Vojin Kocic).
Teaching at Summer Guitar Festival organised by OKIS directed by Krzysztof Pełech — at Fundacja Krzyżowa dla Porozumienia Europejskiego / Stiftung Kreisau (Krzyżowa, Poland).
1ST Prize Winning Composition at: THE 4th INTERNATIONAL MICROTONAL GUITAR COMPETITION | İTÜ Türk Musikisi Devlet Konservatuarı | Istanbul, Turkey
I’m happy to announce that my composition ‘LE-GO!’ for classical microtonal guitar got 1ST Prize at: THE 4th INTERNATIONAL MICROTONAL GUITAR COMPETITION | İTÜ Türk Musikisi Devlet Konservatuarı | Istanbul, Turkey
Marek Pasieczny| 1St Prize Winner of The 4th International Microtonal Guitar Competition | Istanbul, Turkey
Brand new recording of LITTLE SONATA now available on YouTube
Composed in South Africa and re-recorded LITTLE SONATA (in four Movements) now available worldwide
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Marek Pasieczny (Little Sonata, Home Session)