NEWS & EVENTS

March 14, 2025 - 9PM
The 11th Festival of Premieres
NOSPR - KATOWICE
Chamber Hall
 

Two renowned Polish string quartets - the Silesian String Quartet and the NeoQuartet - joined forces on March 14 to premiere Ewa Trębacz's "Nostalgia" at the Polish National Radio Orchestra (NOSPR) concert hall in Katowice.

This new work, composed for 2 string quartets and electronic media, was commissioned by their biennial Festival of Premieres, featuring new works of composers representing various generations and varied musical styles.

NeoQuartet and Silesian Quartet performing "Nostalgia" by Ewa Trębacz

The concert included works by Dominik Strycharski, Ewa Trębacz, Olga Hans, Hubert Żmudzki, Monika Szpyrka, Joanna Woźny, Aleksandra Gryka and Marcel Chyrzyński. 

Full program (in Polish):
https://nospr.org.pl/pl/kalendarz/festiwal-prawykonan-kwartet-slaski-neoquartet

About the Festival:
https://nospr.org.pl/en/kalendarz/festiwal-prawykonan-kwartet-slaski-neoquartet

February 13, 2025 - 8PM

RAISBECK AUDITORIUM
at Cornish College of the Arts
2017 Boren Ave.
Seattle WA 98121

Seattle Modern Orchestra
and Cornish College of the Arts
present

ELECTROACOUSTIC ENVIRONMENTS
IMMERSIVE CONCERT EXPERIENCE
curated by Marcin Pączkowski

PROGRAM:
AGATA ZUBEL: Shades of Ice (2011)
JOANNA BAILIE: Artificial Environments Nos. 1-5 (2011)
EWA TRĘBACZ: Tharsis (2024) – US Premiere
TRISTAN MURAIL: Winter Fragments (2000)
MAREK CHOŁONIEWSKI: Passage (2001-2013)

Angelique Poteat performing "Tharsis" by Ewa Trębacz

The program reflected and interrogated the darkness of the season, with live and electronic sound diffused throughout Raisbeck Auditorium‘s state of the art Meyer Sound acoustic constellation of speakers. 

Two of the newest compositions by Ewa Trębacz have been included in this year's edition of the annual AUDIO ART FESTIVAL in Kraków Poland.  
 

PROGRAM

Jakub Borodziuch: Kyx (2024)

Maciej Jabłoński: Soliloquium (2024)

Leanna Keith: Home (2021)|

Joanna Stępalska-Spix: Leisure (2024)

Ewa Trębacz: Lullabies for Nibru (2024)

PROGRAM

Jan Stańczyk: Ḥaqel D’ma (2024)

Michał Janocha: Alcheringa (2024)

Maciej Jabłoński: Pestera cu Oase  (2023)

Ewa Trębacz: Tharsis (2024)

Wojciech Błażejczyk: Contrails (2024)

***

ABOUT AUDIO ART FESTIVAL 2024

"Although, as its name already suggests, the Audio Art festival focuses primarily on sound, it is not the only content of the event held by the Muzyka Centrum Art Society since 1993. Visual elements often play an important role in projects presented here, and the audience’s interest is also aroused by unusual activities that hardly lend themselves to classification.
 

Through concerts, installations and performances, the invited artists speak out about contemporary problems: migration and war.
 

This year’s festival events will take place at Hevre, the Academy of Music and the Potocki Palace and will be presented in two blocks (15–17 and 21–24 November)."

Source: https://krakow.travel/en/55318-krakow-audio-art-festival-2024

FESTIVAL REVIEW IN GLISSANDO (in Polish):
https://glissando.pl/aktualnosci/audio-art-2024/

October 26, 2024

HASHTAG LAB
ul. Barska 29, Warsaw

Concert for the Change of Time (Times?)
 

On an October night, when time slows down and we symbolically move towards winter, we invite you to reflect on its passage. We invited Polish composers to co-create a concert that we will listen to while lying on carpets, pillows and under blankets, with a cup of tea or hot chocolate in hand. The concert includes two world premieres by composers Aleksander Kościów and Andrzej Karałow, both exploring the possibilities of a 16-person vocal ensemble, in which each voice is a separate part. 

"Inanna Descending" by Ewa Trębacz is a spatial soundscape with an open score and elements of improvisation, realized with the use of various ambisonic techniques. The program is complemented by "instructions" for careful listening and complete relaxation by Mikołaj Laskowski.

More: https://hashtaglab.pl/event/koncert-na-zmiane-czasu/

PERFORMERS

Lilianna Krych — conductor
Julia Kurzydlak — conductor
Wojciech Błażejczyk — sound diffusion
Aleksandra Demowska-Madejska — viola
Dominik Płociński — cello
Łucja Chyrzyńska*— flute
Bartłomiej Sutt*— percussion

*Akademia PRO Hashtag Ensemble

Concert co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund as part of the “Music” program, implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance.

The Hashtag Lab Contemporary Music Space is co-financed by the Capital City of Warsaw.

The media patron of the Hashtag Lab Contemporary Music Space is POLMIC.PL.

SPAM NEW MEDIA FESTIVAL 2024

Georgetown Steam Plant in Seattle

September 28, 2024

RECONTRE 3
Collaborative Performance in Extended Reality

Josiah Boothby - French horn
Laura Luna Castillo - VR environment design & visuals
Leanna Keith - flutes
Ashley Menestrina - movement artist
Daniel Peterson - live sound processing
Ewa Trębacz - violin, sound archives

***

This collaborative immersive performance brings to life a sound archive based on Ambisonic recordings realized in unique acoustical spaces of historical significance in Washington State. The original sounds were created by Josiah Boothby (French horn), Leanna Keith (flutist) and Ewa Trębacz (violinist and composer), through their improvised sessions in these spaces, recorded and processed by Ewa Trębacz. This initial material become a fragmented archive of sound sources, brought into another abandoned industrial place of significance in the Seattle area - the historic Georgetown Steam Plant.

An archive of sonic fragments is being explored in live performance through the use of room-scale VR, motion capture and positional trackers worn by performers in a 3D environment designed by Laura Luna Castillo, and processed live by composer Daniel Peterson. Movement artist Ashley Menestrina triggers sounds in the virtual space in a dialogue with the musicians, who also activate sounds and create new sound events in real time.

SPAM is a Seattle based experimental arts festival which brings together practitioners working on the fringes and frontiers of new media art and knowledge production. Taking place at various venues across Seattle, the  yearly festival consists of a program of exhibitions and performances rooted in, or emerging from, technology driven art and digital culture.

Festival Internacional
Cervantes Electroacústico

August 4, 2024, 8pm
 

CONCERT 3 

Teatro Nacional Cervantes
Buenos Aires - Argentina

PROGRAM
 

Ewa Trębacz  Umbrae (2023)

Anna Vassiliadis Cell Division (2020)

Pedro Castillo Lara Mecánica de fluidos (2024)

Jean Louis Hargous - Ihintza-Chloë Hargous Rémanences (2023)

Clayton Simmons Davidson Metal Fatigue (2023)

Daniel Schachter - Gabriel Delarosa Tiempos de arrebato (2023)

INTERMISSION
 

Oscar Pablo Di Liscia En tu inmensa pupila (2024)

Nahuel Litwin  Cuento de Pulgas (2023)

Jaime Reis  Fluxus pas trop haut dans le ciel (2017)

Eduardo Gilio Estudio Bacon (2023)

Rodrigo Sigal Twilight (2001)
María Marta Ferreyra, fagot

July 24, 2024 - 7pm

HARMONIES and NOISES

Miejskie Centrum Kultury, Marcinkowskiego 12

Bydgoszcz, Poland

NEW WORKS FOR
CONTRABASS CLARINET AND ELECTRONICS

Julian Paprocki – contrabass clarinet

Mateusz Ryczek – electronics

Mateusz Ryczek – Weles (2024) for contrabass clarinet and electronics
 

Michał Janocha – Alcheringa (2024) for contrabass clarinet and live electronics
 

Maciej Jabłoński – Pestera cu Oace (2023) for contrabass clarinet and tape
 

Ewa Trębacz – Tharsis (2024) for contrabass clarinet and electronic media
 

Wojciech Błażejczyk – Contrails (2024) for contrabass clarinet and electronics
 

The concert is a part of their annual New Music Summer Courses for Performers, Bydgoszcz, July 18-27, 2024.

Full program: https://harmonieihalasy.com/en/courses/concerts/

July 12, 2024

International Computer Music Conference

ICMC 2024 Seoul

Hanyang University

Paiknam Concert Hall - Concert B

Program:
 

Sarah E Keirle - Mersh
 

Chen Wang - TextMe
 

Enzhe Zheng - Beyond the Sky 
 

Yue Zhang - Gentle Pine Breeze, Tied-up Boat
 

Ewa Trębacz - Umbrae (Ambisonic soundscape)
 

Motoki Ohkubo - Birdy Loving Club

Full ICMC concert schedule...

About ICMC 2024  

This year's International Computer Music Conference is hosted by Hanyang University in Seoul, South Korea from July 7 to July 13, 2024 at the Hanyang University College of Music and its computer music studio, CREAMA (Center for Research in Electro-Acoustic Music and Audio).

Website: https://www.icmc2024.org

"On a micro level sound originates from motion – i.e. vibrations in a medium – and on a macro level the creation of sound for musical expression usually necessitates some kind of motion on the part of human performers as a catalyst. And although we tend to think of computers as “motionless”, they are actually just as much “in motion” on the microprocessor level as music-making performers on-stage, if not more so. This year’s conference will embrace the many diverse types of sound in motion – micro and macro – that are a part of our computer music universe."

Friday, June 21, 2024

New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival
NYCEMF 2024
 

THE SHEEN CENTER FOR THOUGHT & CULTURE

CONCERT 17
Frank Shiner Theater

Ewa Trębacz - Umbrae (Ambisonic soundscape)
Jana Koshy - mAhAmata
Yixuan Jin - The Dew Waker
Ben Fuhrman - Web
Hector Bravo Benard - Warped Dreams

INTERMISSION

Mikel Kuehn - Bob In Variations
Youngjae Cho - mirrored: ceilings, floors, walls
Matteo Tundo - Reciso
Kasey Pocius - eTu{d,b}e de Labo #1

About the Festival:
 

The New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (NYCEMF) is the largest showcase of electroacoustic in New York City, and one of the largest festivals of its kind in the world. Works are presented in high-quality multichannel surround sound environments. The festival includes music performed by acoustic musical instruments, laptops, and custom electronic devices, as well as works involving digital video, and sound installations. 

More on the NYCEMF website: https://nycemf.org/about/

Image by Laura Luna Castillo

May 15, 2024, 7:30 pm
 

DXARTS Spring Concert: 

Hyper-Realities and Ephemeral Orbits

Meany Hall—Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater
University of Washington in Seattle 

Immersive multimedia works and collaborative performances by 
Laura Luna Castillo, Daniel Peterson, Carolina Marín, Ashley Menestrina and Ewa Trębacz.

***

Laura Luna Castillo - VR environment design and programming, visual spaces
Carolina Marín, Ashley Menestrina - movement artists
Daniel Peterson - live sound processing and coding
Ewa Trębacz - violin, Ambisonic sound sources

An evening of software performances and human-machine communions, drawing lines between the worlds of immersive sound, performing arts, and experimental extended reality.

The familiar, the bearable chaos and illusions of order unfold across technologically mediated hyper-realities, temporalities, and mnemonic worlds.

Performances where interactions and reactions occur across choreographies and spatial arrangements, binding the virtual with the real in unexpected knots and impossible behaviors.

Full program:

https://dxarts.washington.edu/events/2024-05-15/dxarts-spring-concert-hyper-realities-and-ephemeral-orbits

April 15 - 20, 2024
 

3rd Annual 40.4 Festival 2024

ATLAS B2 Center for Media, Arts & Performance

Boulder, University of Colorado

The 40.4 Fest is an audio-forward intermedia sonic summit that features a lineup of events focused around ATLAS B2's 44 channel high density speaker array. The festival is produced and curated by Sean Winters (University of Colorado, ATLAS B2 Center).    April 17: Concert of acousmatic and audiovisual works by Ewa Trębacz, Mariam Gviniashvili, Steve Ashby, Jean-Marc Duchenne, David Fodel, Michael Trommer, John Roach, Jakob Gille, Krzysztof Gawlas, and John Gunther.

November 3-4, 2023 - Rethymno, Crete

41st CIME/ICEM General Assembly 

Electroacoustic Music Days 2023

"Umbrae" - an Ambisonic work by Ewa Trębacz - has been included in the program of the Electroacoustic Music Days 2023 in Rethymno, Crete (Greece), in a joint event with the 41st General Assembly of the International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music (CIME/ICEM). 

During the 5 days of the festival, 13 concerts are scheduled and 78 works will be performed – 50 works by HELMCA composers and 28 international works by CIME/ICEM members. These include Belgium (FeBeME-BeFEM, Musiques & Recherches), France (Maison des Arts Sonores), Italy (Tempo Reale), Portugal (Projecto DME), Poland (PSeME), Ukraine (UAEM), USA (SEAMUS, UNT/CEMI), China (EMAC), Mexico (AARSOM) and Canada.

The program includes fixed media works - among them 15 octophonic, works for video, as well as performances incorporating analog electronics, computer systems, acoustic instruments and voice. The works will be presented with a loudspeaker orchestra surrounding the audience.

The event is hosted by the Department of Music Technology & Acoustics (HMU), in collaboration with the Hellenic Association of Electroacoustic Music Composers (HELMCA).

Festival website: https://meres-icem2023.hmu.gr/

Full program: https://meres-icem2023.hmu.gr/program/

Sunday, October 29th, 5:30pm

SOUND FESTIVAL 2023

ENCOUNTERS

Curated by SERG
Sound Emporium Research Group
Kings Pavilion, University of Aberdeen, Scotland

Works by Alejandro Brianza, Barry Truax, Berk Yağlı, Ewa Trębacz, 
Gordon Delap, Jonty Harrison, Juan Carlos Vasquez,
Leah Reid, Pete Stollery, and Shawn Pinchbeck

Full program...

Encounters is a listening event exploring how we encounter sound. SERG (Sound Emporium Research Group) will showcase soundscape compositions from various artists and composers to demonstrate how our encounters with sounds shape our perception of our environment. Presented by Lise Olsen and Alistair Rennie.
 

SOUND is a new music incubator based in North East Scotland, encouraging new music creation and discovery.
 

SERG is a community of creative people at the University of Aberdeen whose main goal is to explore and realise new ideas through innovative and enjoyable sound projects. SERG members are keen to collaborate with others from different disciplines and to engage in practice-based research projects where sound is a key element.

ODYSSEY TWO PSeME Collection Polish Society of Electroacoustic Music OPUS SERIES - REQUIEM RECORDS opus-series.com

The Tower of Broken Mirrors - an Ambisonic soundscape by Ewa Trębacz in collaboration with Josiah Boothby and Leanna Keith - has been released on a CD as part of the Odyssey Two collection of eleactroacoustic works from Poland. 

The second album from the PSeME Collection series of Polish electroacoustic music, this album includes 15 compositions created by a very diverse group of artists, representing various styles of contemporary music, different aesthetics, differing creative approaches, and utilizing different technologies. One can find examples of acousmatic music, live electronic forms, and compositions featuring live instruments and voices.

The album is supported by the Polish Society of Electroacoustic Music (PSeME), which was established in 2005 to consolidate the community of composers in this field of music and promote them worldwide through festival networks and other events. Since its founding, numerous initiatives have been realized, including the creation of the PSeME Collection series, which represents successive electroacoustic odysseys. 

Works by: Ewa Trębacz, Aleksandra Bilińska, Marcin Pączkowski, Krzysztof Gawlas, Krzysztof Knittel, Max Kohyt, Marcel Chyrzyński, Piotr Roemer, Joanna Stępalska-Spix, Marzena Majcher, Piotr Czerny, Tomasz Prasqual, Tomasz Misiak and Marcin Olejniczak, Eugeniusz Popławski, Anna Jędrzejewska.

Curated by Dariusz Mazurowski (PSeME - Polish Society of Electroacoustic Music).

CD1 - Track 1
Ewa Trębacz - The Tower of Broken Mirrors (2021, remix 2023)
Josiah Boothby - horn, Leanna Keith - flutes, Ewa Trębacz - violin and electronics

KRAKÓW, POLAND - October 20-21, 2023

SPHERE Conference - Konferencja SFERA

Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music

Studio for Electroacoustic Music

CONCERT 3

Krzysztof Kicior - Blockchain Music Study 2.5 (2023) 
Czesław Minkus - SFERobroty’23 (2023)
Piotr Madej - Wildwood Rain (Spherical Object 6) (2023)
Ewa Trębacz - Umbrae (2023), Ambisonic soundscape
Krzysztof Gawlas - Freescape (2023)
GrupLab - Plejrek 380 (2023)
Marek Chołoniewski, Krzysztof Gawlas, Leszek Hefi Wiśniowski,
Czesław Czet Minuks, Piotr Madej

The Sphere Conference on the 50th anniversary of the Electroacoustic Music Studio of the AMKP in Krakow concerns the form of a spherical and holistic image of space-time in the physical and symbolic dimensions, with particular emphasis on music, sound art, video and animation as well as selected forms of media art (including 3D and VR). Similarly to previous SME conferences, it also refers to civilizational and ecological changes, cosmos and microuniverse, as well as selected social and political strategies.

October 6-8, 2023
 

CWU New Music Festival

Central Washington University

Ellensburg, WA, USA

LINZ, AUSTRIA, Sept. 6-10 2023

September 9, 2023 - Sonic Saturday

Concert "Medium Sonorum"

“Umbrae”  - an Ambisonic soundscape by Ewa Trębacz - was premiered on September 9, 2023 as part of the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria. The concert was the final event of their Sonic Saturday annual symposium, this year titled "Manufacturing Audible Truth" (in response to the festival's theme Who Owns the Truth?). The Symposium took place at the Sonic Lab of the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz.

The program included mulitchannel compositions by Jakob Gille (DE), Manu Meier (CH), Chin Ting Chan (HK), Ewa Trębacz (PL/US), Tolga Yayalar (TR), and Berk Yagli (CY) - all of them presented with the ABPU's 20.4 surround sound system.

The theme of Ars Electronica in 2023, this year for- mulated as a question, aims directly at key disputed topics of our time: truth and ownership, interpretive authority and sovereignty. Can truth be owned? Is there a right to truth and if it does belong to someone or some institution, what control and responsibility are associated with it?   How do we ask ourselves such questions in this age of global interconnectedness and the rapidly developing performance of so-called Artificial Intelligence?  In an age, moreover, in which a small number of people, in neo-feudalistic fashion, have usurped the management of collective knowledge, and in which we also have good reason to doubt whether the vision of technology represents the solution to our problems.

    GLISSANDO - March 1, 2023
 

Sounds from space. About the music of Ewa Trębacz

Article by MACIEJ JABŁOŃSKI

"All Ewa Trębacz's works that I know are characterized by considerable restlessness,  which lurks subcutaneously even in fragments devoid of clear movement. From the point of view of form, they are very coherent, homogeneous - the composer usually uses two opposing forms of music: lively and condensed versus quasi-static, calm. Despite the predominance of restless mobility, Ewa Trębacz's music is in fact contemplative."

Read more...
 

Original text in Polish...

September 18, 2022  - ATM Studio, Warsaw

65th International Festival of Contemporary Music

WARSAW AUTUMN

DIALOGUE ZONE – CHAMBER PLAYERS' MARATHON

PART 1: ENERGIES

Works by

Ewa Trębacz, Miroslav Srnka, Martyna Kosecka, Marco Stroppa, Pierre Jodlowski, Artur Zagajewski,

Performed by

Chopin University Modern Ensemble (dir. Julia Kurzydlak, Ignacy Zalewski), Gośka Isphording, Kwadrofonik, Artur Zagajewski

***

September 19, 2022, 10am 

Austrian Cultural Forum, Warsaw

MEET THE COMPOSER: Ewa Trębacz

Moderator: Aleksandra Bilińska

May 25-29, 2022, Wrocław, Poland

FESTIVAL "MUSICA POLONICA NOVA"

National Forum of Music

Andrzej Kosendiak - director

Paweł Hendrich - artistic director

Works by Ewa Trębacz (composer-in-residence): 

May 29, 2022, 5pm - National Forum of Music, Red Hall

Ligeia for invisible soprano, ensemble and surround sound 

Chain Ensemble, Andrzej Bauer - conductor

Anna Niedźwiedź - invisible soprano

May 29, 2022, 7pm - National Forum of Music, foyer 

Minotaur  for horn and surround sound

Mateusz Feliński, horn (live)

Josiah Boothby, horn (electronic layer)

May 29, 2022, 8pm, National Forum of Music, Main Hall

Metanoia - concerto for violin, string orchestra and surround sound

Adam Bałdych - violin

NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra, Christian Danowicz - conductor

Saturday, April 23, 2022, 2:00 PM

Good Shepherd Center in Seattle

Sunday, April 24, 2022, 7:30 PM

Town Hall Forum, Seattle

NOCCO - North Corner Chamber Orchestra presents

DECADENCE

Scott Joplin - The Cascades

Ewa Trębacz - A Machine for Entropy

Paul Hindemith - Lustige Sinfonietta Op. 4

Sunday, April 3, 2022 - Warsaw, Poland

The F. Chopin University of Music in Warsaw (UMFC)

"Nowa Muzyka - Nowe Technologie"

Concert curated by dr Wojciech Błażejczyk

Marta Grzywacz - voice
Mateusz Śmigasiewicz - electronics
Chopin University Modern Ensemble,

Julia Kurzydlak, conductor

Simon Steen Andersen – "Study for String Instrument #2" for strings and whammy pedal

Brigida Muntendorf – "keep quiet and dance" for voice, clarinet, violin, cello and electronics 

Ewa Trębacz – "Inanna Descending" for variable ensemble and Ambisonic sound (Polish premiere)

Mateusz Śmigasiewicz – "Soundscape study" no 3. - "Harmonie der Welt" for 2 Moog synthesizers and tape (world premiere)

Wayward Music Series | Wayward in Limbo # 119

THE TOWER OF BROKEN MIRRORS

Josiah Boothby, French horn

Leanna Keith, flutes

Ewa Trębacz, violin & electronics

The soundscape emerged from our collective hallucinations at the CT3 cooling tower and the reactor building at Satsop Nuclear Plant. We wandered around, improvised, and the spaces responded with their lovely echoes and delays. All of the sounds were recorded, processed and mixed in Ambisonics, the version presented here is a binaural mix. More about this project...

Tuesday - September 22, 2020

W.Lutosławski Polish Radio Concert Studio

63rd International Festival of Contemporary Music "Warsaw Autumn"

Musica Polonica Nova at Warsaw Autumn: A special Presence

Works by Paweł Hendrich, Tomasz Skweres, Przemysław Scheller and Ewa Trębacz

Full program...

Dear Friends,

As of spring 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has put a global pause on artistic activities.

All of my spring concerts - on both sides of the Atlantic - have been canceled or postponed.  This included the premiere of my violin concerto at Musica Polonica Nova Festival in Wrocław with NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra and jazz violinist Adam Bałdych.  

I will be posting more information about rescheduling this one, and possibly other concerts.

STAY HEALTHY - STAY SAFE

SEE YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE 

Friday, November 22, 2019, 8:00 PM 

WAYWARD MUSIC SERIES

Kin of The Moon 

FIRE ∴ REFIRE

Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center 
4649 Sunnyside Ave N, Fourth Floor, Seattle, WA

Seattle-based ensemble Kin of the Moon premieres  “No house on fire, no.” by Seattle saxophonist and composer Neil Welch, with Abbey Blackwell, bass. 

KOTM encores Ewa Trębacz’s “Winter After Times of Fire" for ensemble of improvisers and surround sound.

KOTM will also premiere Leanna Keith and Em Piro’s interactive work “imagination is an act of rebellion”.

Thanks to King County's 4Culture for their generous support.

Radio Eclectus presents:

The life and times of Ben Johnston (1926–2019) and Bogusław Schaeffer (1929–2019), with contributions from Harry Partch, John Schneider, Ewa Trębacz and the Kepler Quartet. Plus new albums from John Zorn, Michael Gordon, Amy Denio and Norm Chambers, a rousing new recording of Xenakis’ Psappha, and a reach into the vaults for some improvised music from half a century ago, including Miles Davis’ transition from acoustic to electric, and a newly unearthed concert performance by Alice Coltrane. Radical music from the Northwest and beyond, presented by Michael Schell.

Listen on Mixcloud...

Photo credits: Miles Davis by Palumbo, Harry Partch from Stephen Pouliot: The Dreamer that Remains, Iannis Xenakis by Les Amis de Xenakis, Ben Johnston and John Schneider by John Fago, John Zorn by Scott Irvine.

SCHAEFFERIADA 90
A special concert, celebrating Bogusław Schaeffer's 90th Birthday

Thursday, June 6, 2019 at 7 PM
Gallery of Contemporary Art "Bunkier Sztuki" in Kraków
pl. Szczepański Sq. 3a, Kraków, POLAND

The concert included a new reading of Schaeffer's composition Spektra, a multichannel version of his Missa Elettronica, as well as Les Sons Esoteriques for flutes and electronics by Barbara Buczek. The concert also included a series of 90-sec long miniatures based on the "BSCH" theme, composed for this occassion by the former students of Professor Schaeffer: Marek Chołoniewski, Martin Daske, Anna Jędrzejewska, Krzysztof Kostrzewa, Hossam Mahmoud, Joanna Stępalska-Spix, Too Jung Shin, Ewa Trębacz and Nicole Younes.

PROGRAM

Bogusław Schaeffer - Spektra
Barbara Buczek - Les Sons Esoteriques

90 sec for 90 years
Anna Jędrzejewska - Video Score 3
Krzysztof Kostrzewa - Trio
Marek Chołoniewski - BeSCH
Martin Daske - Tinguelytude
Hossam Mahmoud - Schaefferiade
Soo Jung Shin - Musik für BSCH
Joanna Stępalska-Spix - Schema BSCH
Ewa Trębacz - B-SCH 90!
Nicole Younes - blessing

Bogusław Schaeffer - Missa Elettronica

PERFORMERS

Muzyka Centrum Ensemble
Joanna Stępalska-Spix - flute, Marek Chołoniewski - electronics, Mariusz Pędziałek - oboe, Jan Pilch - percussion, Kazimierz Pyzik - double-bass

Concert organized by:
Academy of Music in Kraków (Composition Faculty and Studio of Electroacoustic Music)
Gallery of Contemporary Art "Bunkier Sztuki", Kraków
 

February 28, 2019

World premiere of Inanna Descending 

for Ambisonic sound and variable ensemble

by Ewa Trębacz

Music of Today / DXARTS: Until Spring 
Meany Center for the Performing Arts - Gerlich Theater
University of Washington Campus in Seattle

Performed by
Mirta Wymerszberg (bandoneon), Josiah Boothby (French horn),

 Kin of the Moon ensemble: Heather Bentley (viola), Kaley Lane Eaton (soprano), Leanna Keith (flute) 

February 22, 2019

World premiere of Winter After Times of Fire 
for ensemble and surround sound

by Ewa Trębacz

Work commissioned by Kin of the Moon 
through a grant from King County's 4Culture 
 

New Phase: Faculty Concert Featuring Kin of the Moon 
PONCHO Concert Hall at Cornish College of the Arts 
710 E Roy St, Seattle, Washington 98102

Heather Bentley, viola | Leanna Keith, flute | Kaley Lane Eaton, soprano

December 6, 2018

Chordochromies, a 2003 piece  for harpsichord and computer-realized sound by Ewa Trębacz, was performed by Alina Ratkowska on December 6, 2018 in Gdańsk, Poland. The concert was part of their "New Music in Old Townhouse" series.

The concert included works for harpsichord (Alina Ratkowska) and piano (Małgorzata Walentynowicz) with electronics, by composers Ewa Trębacz, Francois Sarhan, Edward Sielicki, Krzysztof Knittel, and Michael van der Aa. Sound diffusion: Dariusz Mazurowski. 

Full program (in Polish)... 

Minotaur at SPLICE Festival II

BGSU College of Musical Arts

Minotaur for horn and surround sound, an Ambisonic work by Ewa Trębacz, was performed by Josiah Boothby as part of SPLICE Festival II Concert 4, Bowling Green State University. 

Recorded live on November 10, 2018 
Bryan Recital Hall, BGSU College of Musical Arts 
Josiah Boothby - French horn | Ewa Trębacz - electronics

Saturday, June 30, 2018, 4-10pm

NEW MUSIC MARATHON 
at Taipei Cultural Center, NYC

1 E 42nd St, New York, NY 10017 

Ewa Trębacz joined an international team of 25 Visiting Composers at the Fifth MISE-EN Music Festival, for the New York City premiere of her work Ligeia. 

The four-day new music festival, organized by Ensemble MISE-EN and artistic director Moon Young Ha, took place in Manhattan and Brooklyn, NY, from June 27 to 30. In total, the Mise-En Music Festival  featured the work of 25 contemporary composers spanning 15 countries, including 24 premieres. The works of these composers were selected from the festival's call for scores, which yielded 572 submissions. 
 

Ewa Trębacz - Composer’s talk:  Wednesday, June 27th, 3pm  

MISE-EN_PLACE Bushwick, 678 Hart St #1B, Brooklyn, NY 11221

Ewa Trębacz awarded Listen UP! Music by Women
2018 Artist Grant from Allied Arts Foundation in Seattle

Listen UP! Music by Women: a cross-genre competition for new works by women composers and songwriters, was the first opportunity of its kind in Washington State. Ewa Trębacz was awarded the 2018 grant to support the premiere of her new work Inanna Descending. The piece was premiered on February 28, 2019 at Meany Center for the Performing Arts, Gerlich Theater in Seattle. 

Women have been historically and systemically disadvantaged in the fields of music composition and songwriting, often receiving far fewer opportunities and resources to create new musical work than their male peers. Listen UP! Music by Women presented an opportunity for community dialogue, expression and support for the significant female talent in Washington.

Thursday, March 29, 3:30 p.m. 
SEAMUS 2018 - CONCERT 3 
University of Oregon School of Music

Ewa Trębacz's audiovisual composition ERRAI was presented at the 2018 national conference of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS), held at the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance in Eugene, Oregon.

November 15, 2017, 7:30 pm 

DXARTS, University of Washington 
and the Pacific Northwest Section 
of the Audio Engineering Society 

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Ambisonics & the Ambisonic Toolkit (ATK) @ DXARTS 

Presentation by Joseph Anderson, DXARTS 

Project demonstations by 
Ewa Trębacz & Josiah Boothby,  
Daniel Peterson & Martin Jarmick, 
James Wenlock

Ewa Trębacz with Josiah Boothby (French horn) demonstrated their soundfield recordings from the Dan Harpole Cistern in Fort Worden, Washington, along with the "full 3D" reverb recreating the acoustics of that unique space in real time.

August 3rd, 2017, 8:00 pm 
WAYWARD MUSIC SERIES 
 

Nonsequitur presents: 

THEA FARHADIAN + EWA TRĘBACZ 

Performances by 
Josiah Boothby, French horn 
Thea Farhadian, violin / electronics
Ewa Trębacz, violin / electronics

Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center 
4649 Sunnyside Ave N, Fourth Floor, Seattle, WA

June 19-25, 2017 - NYCEMF 2017 

New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival

Concert 9, Abrons Art Center, Playhouse
Wednesday, June 21, 2017, 8-10:30 PM

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Ewa Trębacz 
Minotaur for horn and computer-realized surround sound 
Josiah Boothby, French horn

May 25-26, 2017, 7:30pm 

WAYWARD MUSIC SERIES

ALUMNI ALCHEMY
Chapel Performance Space at Good Shepherd Center in Seattle

Concert 1   |   Concert 2

Two consecutive evenings of electroacoustic music, video and performance by University of Washington Alumni composers and friends. 

Works by Linda Antas and her colleague from Montana State University Jason Bolte, Tom Baker, Donald Craig, Ryan M. Hare, Ben McAllister, Douglas Niemela, Joshua Parmenter, and Ewa Trębacz with Josiah Boothby.

May 12, 2017, 7:30pm

MUSIC OF TODAY
UW Alumni Composers
 

Meany Hall for the Performing Arts 
University of Washington Campus in Seattle

An evening of computer music and video from the UW School of Music and DXARTS Alumni composers. Works by Linda Antas, Bret Battey , Donald Craig, Ewa Trębacz, Ben McAllister, and Nicolás Varchausky.

Full program...

Women in (New) Music: 50+ Pieces of Advice from Women Composers

In celebration of International Women’s Day on March 8, Classical King FM's Second Inversion asked 54 women composers the following question: 
 

In what ways (if any) do you feel that being a woman has shaped your experiences as an artist? What advice do you have for other female-identifying artists who are aspiring to creative leadership roles? 

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http://secondinversion.org/2017/03/08/women-in-new-music-50-pieces-of-advice-from-women-composers/ 
 

November 25, 2016

LabSen CSW, Toruń, Poland

Polish-Dutch harpsichordist Gośka Isphording performs Chordochromies for harpsichord and computer-realized sound at the new contemporary music festival "Słuchalnia" in Toruń, Poland.

Studio recording (G.Isphording, harpsichord)...

October 2nd, 2016, 7:30pm

DIGITAL IMMERSION
Montana State University, Reynolds Recital Hall 

An evening of immersive audio works for digitally created sounds and live performers.

Works for instruments and electronics by composers Linda Antas (MSU) 
and Ewa Trębacz (DXARTS, University of Washington). 

Performances by MSU School of Music faculty

Mike Nelson, Stephen Versaevel, Jeffrey Vick, Linda Antas

and guest Andrew Miller.

April 9th, 2016, 8pm 

"Musica Electronica" 
Chapel Performance Space at Good Shepherd Center 
4649 Sunnyside Ave N, Fourth Floor, Seattle, WA 

Seattle Modern Orchestra in partnership with DXARTS 
presented an evening of electronic music, including three works 
from three different generations and three stages of technological development. 

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PROGRAM 
Differences - Luciano Berio
Ligeia for invisible soprano, ensemble,and surround sound - Ewa Trębacz
Lichtbogen - Kaija Saariaho

February 20, 2016, 7:30pm
 

Seattle Modern Orchestra Benefit Concert
Chapel Performance Space at Good Shepherd Center
4649 Sunnyside Ave N, Fourth Floor, Seattle, WA

Minotaur for horn and surround sound was performed by Josiah Boothby at the Seattle Modern Orchestra annual fundraiser event.
 

September 30, 2015

Minotaur at ICMC 2015

Minotaur for horn and surround sound was performed by Heather Suchodolski at the Murchison Performing Arts Center, University of North Texas, as part of the 41 International Computer Music Conference.

The conference was organized by the Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia (CEMI), Division of Composition Studies, University of North Texas.

https://icmc2015.unt.edu

May 7th, 2015, at 8pm
WAYWARD MUSIC SERIES:
Machinations Musical, Divers & Sundry

Chapel Performance Space at Good Shepherd Center
4649 Sunnyside Ave N, Fourth Floor, Seattle, WA

Current and past students from the University of Washington School of Music and DXARTS join forces to present an evening of experimental music and performance.

Works and performances by

Daria Binkowski, flute and Anna Stachurska, live electronics
Josiah Boothby and Ewa Trębacz, violin/horn duo with surround sound
Donald Craig, 19-tone equal temperament electric guitar
Inmi Lee, vocal performance with live electronics and kinetic sculpture
Joshua Parmenter, cello with live electronics
Douglas Niemela and Donald Craig, duo improvisation of sound and video

Full program...   |   Facebook Event Page...

Open Borders Generation Concert Tour 2014

Polish and American musicians present music by a selection of Polish composers born in the 1970s.

Three concerts include works by Paweł Hendrich, Agata Zubel, Ewa Trębacz, Cezary Duchnowski and Krzysztof Wołek.

November 12, 7:30pm
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
Tryon Festival Theatre, Urbana, IL

November 14, 8:00pm
University of Louisville School of Music
Margaret Comstock Concert Hall
Louisville, KY

November 16, 8:30pm
Frequency Series Constellation
3111 N Western Ave
Chicago, IL

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PROGRAM

Pawel Hendrich – Emergon αβ
for large ensemble and electronics

Agata Zubel - Not I
for soprano, ensemble and electronics

Ewa Trębacz - Minotaur
for horn and surround sound

Cezary Duchnowski - 1 5 1, 2 4 2, 3 3 3
for violin, cello and electronics

Krzysztof Wołek - Motions, Stases
for piano and large ensemble

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Agata Zubel, soprano

Małgorzata Walentynowicz, piano

Jancie Philippus, French horn

Illinois Modern Ensemble

Stephen Andrew Taylor, conductor

From CD Booklet:
PLACES, SPACES, ENCOUNTERS:
A Conversation with Ewa Trębacz.
BY ANNA NIEDŹWIEDŹ.

Polish Radio, Polish Music Information Center and Polish Composers' Union (ZKP) have released Ewa Trębacz’s monographic audio CD as part of the new series Muzyka Polska Dzisiaj (Polish Music Today), promoting new works created in Poland and around the world.

This CD includes 5 works by Ewa Trębacz, created between 2000 and 2013, ranging from solo works with electronics to large orchestral works with Ambisonic sound. The project is non-commercial with approximately 300 CDs to be donated to various institutions, and a small number to be distributed by the Polish Radio.

The CD has been presented as the "Album of the Week" by Classical King FM's Second Inversion, their online channel devoted to contemporary music, where you can find an interview with Ewa and Josiah Boothby (French horn, collaborator on much of the disc release).

The CD is available to stream from Ewa Trębacz's SoundCloud channel. 

January 23 and 24, 2014, 7:30pm

 Chapel Performance Space in Seattle

DXARTS and Wayward Music Series present:

CROTCHETS, QUAVERS ... AND SILICON PARCHMENT
New works for electronics, video and interactive media.

A two-night festival of interactive art featuring new and recent works by Donald Craig, Eunsu Kang, Ewa Trębacz, Marcin Pączkowski, Joshua Parmenter, Robert Blatt, Alexis Eggertsen, Joel Ong, Hector Bravo Benard, Ha Na Lee, Sergio Luque, Shih-Wei Lo and Steve Escoffery.

With performances by Josiah Boothby (French horn).

June 17, 2013, 8pm

Chapel Performance Space in Seattle

Cloud Drawings:

an evening of computer music

With guest artist Charles Céleste Hutchins

Music and performances by Hector Bravo Benard, Donald Craig, Charles Céleste Hutchins, Joshua Parmenter and Ewa Trębacz

More..

April 20, 2013

NORTHWEST HORN SYMPOSIUM

Montana State University School of Music

Bozeman, Montana

Josiah Boothby performed Minotaur at Northwest Horn Symposium 2013 
Montana State University. The 2013 Northwest Horn Symposium was held at the Montana State University School of Music, April 19 through April 21 in Bozeman, Montana. Horn players of all ages attended from Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, New York, Colorado and Wyoming.

Concert recording (mp3)...

February 24, 2013, Warsaw, Poland
 

ANC'L'SUNR (2012) 

Spatial Soundscape with Orchestra in the Foreground
premiered at the W.Lutosławski Concert Studio

The Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Marek Moś, premiered ANC'L'SUNR for orchestra and Ambisonic sound by Ewa Trębacz at the W. Lutosławski Concert Studio S1 in Warsaw.

The concert was a part of the Generations XVI annual event, organized by the Polish Radio, the Polish Composers Union and the Polish Society of Authors and Composers ZAIKS. This year it featured works by 4 composers: Paweł Buczyński, Krzysztof Meyer, Anna Zawadzka-Gołosz and Ewa Trębacz. The concert was broadcast live on the Polish Radio Programme II.

Organised Sound 17.2 (2012)

An article by Ewa Trębacz has been published in Organised Sound - an international peer-reviewed journal of music and technology. The article focuses on applications of immersive audiovisual media to experimental art, in particular in the context of so-called Visual Music.

Trębacz, Ewa. "Depth Modulation: Composing Motion in Immersive Audiovisual Spaces". Organised Sound 17.2 (2012): 156-162. Print.

January 10, 2012 - Tacoma, Washington
 

Classical Tuesdays in Old Town: Wired for Sound

An evening of electroacoustic music by Joshua Parmenter, Donald Craig, Pete Moss, Douglas Niemela, and Ewa Trębacz, presented by Old Town Business & Professionals Association, North Tacoma, Washington.

Minotaur concert performance (mp3)
Josiah Boothby, French horn

Glissando 19 (2011)

Junge Komponisten aus Polen auf Deutsch

A special, German-language edition of Glissando - a Polish contemporary music magazine - includes an article by Ewa Trębacz discussing selected aspects of immersive media based art. 

Trębacz, Ewa. "Modulation des Raumes: auf der Suche nach der Sprache eines immersiven Mediums." Glissando 19 (2011): 72-76. Print.

November 16, 2011 

Wayward Music Series: The Last Minute
Chapel Performance Space at Good Shepherd Center in Seattle

An evening of electroacoustic music and digital video by Seattle-based composers Donald Craig, Pete Moss, Douglas Niemela, Joshua Parmenter and Ewa Trębacz. The concert will include a digital video work Symphony By Numbers by Donald Craig and three surround sound pieces: Risonanza for computer-realized sound by Joshua Parmenter, Heat for computer-realized sound by Pete Moss, and Minotaur for horn and surround sound by Ewa Trebacz, with horn playerJosiah Boothby. It will also include two works for viola and computer-realized sound: Retro by Douglas Niemela, and a new work by Donald Craig titled November 16, featuring violist Brianna Atwell.

August 26-27, 2011

Understanding Visual Music 2011 Conference

Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

Based on her doctoral dissertation research, Ewa Trębacz presented "Depth Modulation: Visual Music in Immersive Media Environment" at the Understanding Visual Music conference at Concordia University in Montreal.

UVM 2011 was a two-day conference focused on developing an understanding of the practice of visual music, its definition, related creative and perceptual considerations, current trends, technological innovation, and possible future directions.

April 12-17, 2011 - Dresden
 

Sekwens (dir. R.Sowa, music and sound by Ewa Trębacz) was presented at the International Short Films Festival "FilmFest" in Dresden, Germany.

March 26, 2011 - Los Angeles
 

"Polish Music: The New Generation. With guest artist, David Lynch."

Works by Wojtek Blecharz, Mikołaj Górecki (son of the late Henryk Mikołaj Górecki), Jarosław Kapuściński, Robert Pierzak, and Ewa Trębacz. 

Ewa Trębacz's work Minotaur for horn and surround was performed by Seattle-based French horn player Josiah Boothby at the special event featuring works by Polish composers living in the United States. The concert was organized by the Polish Music Center at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

The evening was capped with a special performance by filmmaker David Lynch, appearing in a keyboards-grand piano duet of free improvisations with Marek Żebrowski.

December 8th, 2010 - Warsaw
 

"Portraits of Composers": Ewa Trębacz 
Event organized by Polish Composers Union 

PROGRAM 

Minotaur for horn and surround 
Chordochromies for harpsichord and computer-realized sound 
Sekwens, animated film, dir. Robert Sowa, music and sound by Ewa Trębacz 
Interior Portrait, animated film, dir. Robert Sowa, music by Ewa Trębacz 

Alina Ratkowska - harpsichord 
Henryk Kowalewicz - French horn 

Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 6 (2009)

Max Nyffeler's article on Ewa Trębacz's music, art (and other adventures) in the context of a new generation of Polish composers.

Nyffeler, Max. "Klettern in imaginären und realen Räumen. Die Multimedia-Künstlerin Ewa Trębacz." ["Climbing in Imaginary and Real Spaces. Multimedia Artist Ewa Trębacz."] Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 6 (2009): 28-29. Print. Language: German.

September 19th, 2009 - Warsaw
 

Errai premiered at the 52nd International Festival of Contemporary Music WARSAW AUTUMN.

"Errai" is an audiovisual immersive work by Ewa Trębacz, created in collaboration with Josiah Boothby (French horn), Anna Niedźwiedź (soprano) and Robert Sowa (lighting animation).  Stereoscopic animation and Ambisonic soundtrack were realized by Ewa Trębacz at DXARTS, University of Washington, Seattle.

The work is based on encounters of spaces and encounters of artistic personalities, where the entire physical and perceptual space, including the audience, is considered the resonance box of a single instrument. Selected immersive technologies are combined together in an attempt to challenge our perception of the real and the imaginary.

Spaces compete.  While the sound fills the entire physical space, and even extends it, the visual layers focus the visual perception at certain moments, events, and selected parts of the time-space. Spaces overlap. Sound and imagery compete for audience attention demanding at times an extreme focus and willingness to stretch the borders of perception.

This engagement is supported by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through USArtists International in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Trust for Mutual Understanding.

June 8-12, 2009 - Paris 
56th UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers 

Ewa Trębacz's work things lost things invisible for Ambisonic space and orchestra received a prestigious recommendation of the 56th UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers in Paris. 
 

The International Rostrum of Composers has been organized since 1954 by the International Music Council, associated with UNESCO. 56 works from 27 radio stations from four continents have been presented in Paris during this year's edition of the Rostrum.

Radio broadcasts...