Upcoming Concerts Fall ’17 / Spring ‘18 USA / CANADA / CHINA / EUROPE

Solo and Chamber Music

RUSSIA / HOLLAND / GERMANY / AUSTRIA / SWITZERLAND

October 5-8 Sverdlovsk State Philharmony, Russia
(duo with Ling Ling Yu)
October 15 NL-Rotterdam, LantarenVenster
October 16 NL-Amsterdam, Q Factory
October 19 DE-Rüsselsheim, Das Rind
October 20 DE-Reutlingen, FranzK
October 21. AT-Hard, Kammgarn
October 22 DE-Ingolstadt, Eventhalle am Westpark
October 24 DE-Bonn, Harmonie
October 25 DE-Koblenz, Café Hahn
October 26 DE-Remchingen, Kulturhalle
October 28 DE-Marburg, KFZ
October 29 DE-Celle, CD Kaserne
October 30 DE-Fehmarn, Kirche St.Johannis
November 01 DE-Bochum, Christuskirche
November 02 DE-Potsdam, Lindenpark
November 03 DE-Schwerin, Speicher
November 04 DE-Jena, Volkshaus Jena
November 06 AT-Hallein, Stadttheater Hallein
November 07 AT-Vienna, Reigen
November 09 CH-Gams, Guitar Repairs
November 10 CH-Bülach, JazzInn alterszentrum Im Grampen
(solo, duo, quartet with: Michael Chapdelaine, Lulo Reinhardt & Calum Graham)
USA / CANADA / CHINA
January 18 Cowichan Theatre, Duncan B.C.
January 20 Massey Theatre, New Westminster B.C.
January 21 University of Victoria, Victoria B.C.
January 24 Edmonds Center for the Arts, Edmonds WA
January 26 Port Theatre, Nanaimo B.C.
January 30 Manship Theatre, Baton Rouge LA
January 31 Wolf Trap Barns, Vienna VA
February 1 Wolf Trap Barns, Vienna VA
February 3 Gordon Center, Owings Mills MD
February 6 Center for the Arts, Sun Valley ID
February 9 Myrna Loy Center, Helena MT
February 10 Alberta Bair Theater, Billings MT
February 15 Ft. Lewis College, Durango CO
February 16 Swallow Hill, Denver CO
February 21 Harris Center, Folsom CA
February 23 Bankhead Theatre, Livermore CA
February 25 Fulkerson Recital Hall, Arcata CA
March 2 Discovery Theeatre, Anchorage AK
March 3 Lincoln Theatre, Mt. Vernon WA
(solo, duo, quartet with: Michael Chapdelaine, Lulo Reinhardt & Calum Graham)
May 20-24 The Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing, China
(solo recital, master-class)

Full score (plus cello and guitar parts) are now available click here to order the score

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Happy to announced that just finishing composing ‘TATE SONATA’ for solo guitar (in four movements, inspired by one of the most prestigious art galleries in the world: Tate Modern, London).

Commissioned and dedicated to great guitarist and superb musician Giacomo Susani.

Thank you to William Kanengiser from (LAGQ) for writing lovely program notes for Scintilla (quartet version).

 ‘Scintilla’ by Marek Pasieczny is an evocation of the spatial and spiritual musical expression of the mystical Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. First composed for solo piano, subsequent versions for solo guitar, guitar duo and now guitar quartet have further explored the atmospheric possibilities of this work. 

 Using an unusual scordatura of low G natural on the sixth string and G# on the fifth, Pasieczny creates a totally unique sonic texture in this riveting and finely detailed score.  Beginning with a mysterious ostinato, the piece unfolds with brooding open harmonies and ominous dissonances. This prepares the entrance of the „Psalm”, with a cantus firmus-like exposition of a fragment from one of Pärt’s vocal works.  Building in intensity with wave-like chordal crests, the work ultimately drifts back to a gentle undulating close.

 Scintilla represents an original and welcome addition to the serious repertoire for guitar quartet. 

William KANENGISER

(LAGQ | Los Angeles Guitar Quartet)

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Brand new version of SCINTILLA: After Arvo Part for guitar quartet (dedicated to LAGQ: Los Angeles Guitar Quartet) now available worldwide!

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My new version of Variations ‘Sakura No Hana’ for guitar and pipa feat. amazing Lingling Yu now available on YouTube in 4K.

Excited to announce new commission from the winner of the last ‘London International Guitar Competition’, ‘Julian Bream Trust’ scholar and co-winner of the Special Prize at The Guitar Masters – Italian virtuoso of young generation: Giacomo Susani.

The piece will be in the form of sonata and it’s inspired by one of the most influential gallery venues worldwide: Tate Modern in London.

English Premiere: End of this year | Chinese premiere: May ‘18

Starting to work on new piece which was commissioned and will be dedicated to brilliant musicians – members of the NZGQ ‘New Zealand Guitar Quartet’: Owen Moriarty, John Couch, Christopher Hill and Jane Curry.

The piece will be in multi-movement form (suite) in memory of great NZ composer and ethnomusicologist Jack Body. New Zealand Premiere: end of this year | USA Premiere: during Guitar Foundation of America in 2018.

Back in CHINA

Happy to announce my appearance at 中央音乐学院 The Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing (four days of master-classes, solo recitals, duo collaboration), May ’18.

’POLISH SUITE’ (for 2 pianos/ 8 hands) was recently premiered in Crete, Greece during the ‘Heraklion Piano Festival’.Pianists: Petros Moschos, Dimitris Karydis, Michalis Angelakis, Nikos Stavlas.

Originally piece was commissioned by Aaron Shore for the ‘International Piano Festival’ in Glasow, Scotland – celebrating the 200th Anniversary of Fryderyk Chopin’s Birth

I and II movement

III – IV

V

 

Polish Sketches for cello and guitar now available in HD

Three Festivals and Summer Workshops in POLAND! Teaching (individual classical guitar and composition classes), adjudicating and performing as following:

• 30^th of June – 10^th of July | International Guitar Festival ‘Master of Six Strings’
• 13^th – 23^rd July | Guitar Masters Camp 
• 30^th July – 4^th August 10^th | The Krzysztof Penderecki European Centre for Music 

RUSSIA!

Happy to announce my appearance during the The 6^th Eurasia International Music Festival in October this year. Going to perform some of my compositions with Lingling Yu (pipa).

Big thank you to Maestro Dmitry LISS (artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Urals Academic Philharmonic Orchestra).

Finis Autem Principium Est (Epitaph on Sir John Tavener) | PASIECZNY, Marek (for solo guitar)

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’SEQUENZA’ (a Alberto Ginastera) remarkably performed by Daniel Egielman

World Premiere Recording of my 'SEQUENZA’ (Alberto Ginastera: In Memoriam) brilliantly performed by rising star in classical guitar Daniel EGIELMAN. Now Available Worldwide: iTunes  Amazon Spotify  GooglePlay

Beijing, China | Four Solo Recitals:
Nov 23rd 19:30-20:30 The Bookworm, Sanlitun
Nov 25th 19:00-20:30 Centennial Hall, Peking University
Nov 26th 19:30-20:30 Owspace
Nov 27th 19:00-20:00 UCCA, 798 Art Zone

’PHOSPHENES: After S. L. Weiss’ stunningly performed by Vojin Kocić | Special Award for 'the Best Performance of the set piece’ during Guitar Masters 2016 in Wroclaw, Poland

Masterclass at Hochschule für Musik, Freiburg

I’m honoured to be part of the jury (w/Oscar Ghiglia, Martha Masters, Shin-Ichi Fukuda, Dušan Bogdanović, Leszek Możdżer and others) as well have been commissioned by the Guitar Masters 2016 to compose obligatory work for the 2nd Round: PHOSPHENES: After S.L.Weiss (free download score)

NEW ZEALAND / AUSTRALIA | Tour Dates:
Hamilton: Sept 1st
Warkworth: Sept 2nd
Auckland: Sept 3rd
New Plymouth: Sept 6th
Timaru: Sept 8th
Christchurch; Sept 10th
Wellington: Sept 13th (+ master class at the New Zealand School of Music, Victoria University)
Sydney: Sept 15th (+ master class at the Sydney Conservatorium)

NEO VARIATIONS: Tribute to John Towner Williams now available on YouTube!

Giving master-classes at the IXth Edition of Guitar Workshops ’Mistrz i Uczeń’ at The Krzysztof Penderecki European Centre for Music – till 6th of August | with David Russell

Brand new composition for solo guitar titled NEO VARIATIONS: Tribute to John Towner Williams now available worldwide on iTunes | Amazon  | GooglePlay | and 150 + other stores and streaming services.

 'Pasieczny: Piano Music’ by Sylvia Sze-Hua JEN (piano) | is out now Worldwide! Available on: iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Dezeer and 150+ other stores and streaming services.

Recording of Mr Pasieczny’s Lutoslawski: In Memoriam for two guitars now available worldwide!

LUTOSLAWSKI: In Memoriam by Marek PASIECZNY | performed by Sylvia Sze-Hua Jen | To Download Full Score FREE click HERE

World Premiere Recording of latest album by Marek Pasieczny titled: 'THE ART OF THE DUO’ (music of Pasieczny for two guitars) with guitarist Michał Stanikowski is available on iTunes  Amazon  GooglePlay

Andrzej BAUER (cello) Marek PASIECZNY (guitar) | World premiere during The ISCM World Music Days 2014, Wroclaw, Poland, October 2014. Project co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland within the programme „Collections” – the priority „Composition Commissions” implemented by the Institute of Music and Dance.

Taiwanese guitarist Chiawei Lin gave a U.S. premiere of Marek Pasieczny’s composition titled THE TANGO IMPRESSIONS: Tribute to the Art of Astor Piazzolla. The premiere took place at prestige Carnegie Hall, NYC on 23rd of October, 2014

Anamnesis | After Toru Takemitsu has been published and recorded.

 

Brand new composition commissioned and dedicated to the ISCM World Music Days (this year based in Poland, Wroclaw) entitled ANAMNESIS is going to be premiered during the concert Strings + . This three movement duo for cello and guitar will be premiered by world renowend cellist Andrzej BAUER and the composer Marek PASIECZNY himself. All details HERE

Brand new Mr Pasieczny’s cycle for two guitars titled POLISH IMPRESSIONS is now available! 

Premiere of Marek Pasieczny’s brand new symphonic concerto for two guitars and large orchestra entitled: ‘THE DOUBLE PORTRAIT ’ now available on CD! Listen examples HERE

Marek Pasieczny will be a member of the international adjudicating panel during the Jan Edmund Jurkowski Memorial Guitar Competition as part of The SILESIAN GUITAR AUTUMN. Also Pasieczny’s „GO-DAI concerto: Takemitsu: in Memoriam” is one of the 'optional guitar concertos’ for the final 3rd stage of the competition. Invited guests of the festival include Jordi Savall, Andrew York, Odair Assad, Andrew Lawrence-King (among many others)

Marek Pasieczny will be teaching, adjudicating and giving composition workshops in Poland during two international summer guitar courses in Trzęsacz and Krzyżowa. Details —> 17th INTERNATIONAL GUITAR FESTIVAL in Trzęsacz | SUMMER GUITAR WORKSHOP

Standing ovation after the world premiere of Marek Pasieczny’s brand new symphonic concerto for two guitars and large orchestra! The concerto entitled: ‘THE DOUBLE PORTRAIT ’ – concerto for two guitars and symphonic orchestra, was commissioned by the 10th International Guitar Festival  in Zielona Gora, Poland. The premiere took place on the 9th of May 2014 in Zielona Góra, Poland at the Philharmony Concert Hall.

Soloists: Marek Pasieczny and Michał Stanikowski; Conductor: Maestro Jacek Kraszewski with Symphonic Orchestra of the city of Zielona Góra.

ANAMNESIS | After Toru Takemitsu by MAREK PASIECZNY
performed by SYLVIA SZE-HUA JEN
I. Spaciously II. Slightly faster III. With more movement

(…) perhaps I am one of those who try to see the invisible, to hear the inaudible. Human perception is not uniform but has varying levels. My music is something like a signal sent to the unknown. Moreover, I imagine and believe that my signal meets another’s signal, and the resulting physical change creates a new harmony different from the original two. And this is a continuous, changing process. Therefore, my music will not be complete in the form of a score. Rather, if refuses completion.

Toru Takemitsu
(from 'Gardener of Time’; September 16, 1993 Tokyo)

ANAMNESIS | After Toru Takemitsu

From the Greek words anamimnēskein meaning to recall, to remember; and mimnēskein: to call to mind. In psychology, 'anamnesis’ is used to describe the recall to memory, a recollection; while in medicine, it represents the ability to recall past events. In philosophy, 'anamnesis’ is a concept in Plato’s epistemological and psychological theory. Platonicism is a recollection of the ideas which the soul had known in a previous existence, especially by means of reasoning. It is the idea that humans possess knowledge from past incarnations and that learning consists of rediscovering that knowledge within us. In the Catholic religion, 'anamnesis’ appears as a prayer in a Eucharistic service, recalling the Passion, Resurrection, and Ascension of Christ.

In 1992, Takemitsu composed a trio for flute, viola and harp entitled „And then I knew ’twas wind”. This work is a late example of Takemitsu’s life-long interest in French music. It was his tribute to Claude Debussy. Takemitsu borrowed the instrumentation of Debussy’s Sonata No. 2 for flute, viola, and harp, and also alluded to it by a literal quote of a rising figure that first appears in the viola. He described the piece as a „…soul, or unconscious mind (we could even call it a 'dream’), which continued to blow, like the wind, invisibly, through human consciousness.” Following Takemitsu’s idea of borrowing and quoting, I took a figure from the harp solo in the very first opening bar of Takemitsu’s „And then I knew ’twas wind”. The original material is a six-note figure which I have used throughout my piece, partially presented six times (twice in every movement) and finally appearing in its complete form at the end of the piece.

ANAMNESIS has been divided into three movements, with each movement increasing in tempo resulting in a gradual condensation in the flow of time. The piece is however meant as a whole, with the movements connected in two ways. Firstly, each movement consists of materials from the other two movements; however this diminishes progressively towards the end. Almost half of the first movement consists of materials from the 2nd and 3rd movements. The second movement, however, contains only nearly 30% of the materials from the 1st and 3rd movements. Finally the third movement is made up of 80% new material with the remaining 20% from the 1st and 2nd movements. The core linking factor of the piece is a five-note pattern – forming the main theme (based in part on the Japanese Ichikosucho scale) — which unfolds partially in the first movement, finally presented in its entirety in the second movement, and returning in reminiscence at the very end of movement three.

Composed simultaneously in two versions – for solo piano and solo guitar (in December 2013 – January 2014), I have based ANAMNESIS on the same guitar tuning I used for The GO-DAI Concerto (both in memory of Toru Takemitsu), to recall the compositional steps I took while composing that piece. The phenomenon of ANAMNESIS (i.e. recalling to memory) is also reflected musically via a number of 'central notes’ which continuously recur (indicated in the guitar score by dotted lines). This suggests (for the listener) the illusion of memory of previously heard notes. In the piano version, ANAMNESIS is captured through dynamic contrasts (the echo effect); while in the guitar version, it is achieved through repeating the same note on different strings or via natural or artificial harmonics.

Marek Pasieczny
LONDON, The UK Jan.2014

Marek Pasieczny is going to perform solo recital and give lecture during the GitarFest 2013 International Festival in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina | 28-30 of November 2013 details: here

Marek’s new composition for solo guitar titled AFTER BRAD : VARIATIONS (to Brad Mehldau) is available in score!