Aletheia

The title: “Aletheia” can be translated from Ancient Greek as truth, disclosure, unclosedness, or unconcealedness, understood as the revealing of what has been hidden. The ancient concept of “aletheia” was brought back by Martin Heidegger in the mid 20-century. I was deeply drawn to his philosophy at the time I composed this piece.

Aletheia was the very first piece I wrote right after graduating with a Composition degree from the Academy of Music in Kraków, Poland, and the last one I composed in Poland, before moving to the United States. 

Today I view this piece almost as a soundtrack to a film that has never been made. The musical language and artistic means seem quite simplified compared to my other compositions. Yet what may seem as a step backwards became the first step in the quest for my own individual artistic path.

- Ewa Trębacz

Tarnów Chamber Orchestra

Founded in 1991 on the initiative of Włodzimierz Siedlik, who conducted its first concert. The orchestra has performed with excellent soloists and conductors at concerts and festivals throughout Poland, as well as in Germany, Spain and Switzerland. They have been performing  mostly classical repertoire, from baroque to contemporary. Its successive artistic directors have been: Stanisław Krawczyński, Tomasz Tokarczyk, Orest Telwach and (since August 2011) – Paweł Wajrak.

PREMIERE

June 17, 2000

12th International Festival of Cracow Composers

Church of the Missionaries

Kraków, Poland

Tarnów Chamber Orchestra

Tomasz Tokarczyk, conductor

Tomasz Tokarczyk graduated in conducting and violin performance from the Kraków Academy of Music and later worked as a conductor for the Tarnów Chamber Orchestra and music director and conductor for the Szczecin Opera.

He has appeared with the symphony orchestras of most Polish philharmonic institutions, as well as the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Grand Theatres in Poznań and in Łódź. He has been associated with the Cracow Opera since 2004, first as orchestra director and conductor, then since 2008 as the Opera's music director.