Performers
Tadeusz Wielecki
Composer, double-bassist, and music event organiser, Wielecki studied double bass with Alfred Wieczorek and Andrzej Mysiński, composition with Włodzimierz Kotoński at the Warsaw Academy of Music (now the Chopin University of Music). He continued his composition studies with Isang Yun in West Berlin and with Klaus Huber in Freiburg im Breisgau. He took part in summer courses in Wzdów, Kazimierz Dolny, and Darmstadt (to which he returned after two decades as a lecturer).
As a concert bassist, he performs contemporary solo repertoire. He is also involved in promotional and educational work with children and youth (he has hosted his own programs on Polish Radio), and has composed a number of works for children. In 1999–2016 he directed the ‘Warsaw Autumn’ International Festival of Contemporary Music.
In his early works, in which he often used the collage technique, he willingly put on the mask of irony and grotesque. His mature style is characterised by extremely strong expressive and textural contrasts, sharp dissonances, and the foregrounding of sound colour. In compositions created after 2000, the artist presents an increasingly focused, introverted attitude. In the course of his experiments, he has developed a number of innovative technical solutions such as ‘gesture technique’, ‘sliding etchnique’ and ‘composed trill’.
He has received, among others, the second prize (first was not awarded) in the EAR radio competition in Budapest (1995) for The Very True Story for tape, a recommendation of the UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers in Paris (1999) for Concerto à Rebours, and the Polish Composers’ Union Award (2008).
Wielecki’s works have been commissioned by major institutions and ensembles (including the Hiroshima Symphony Association, Klangforum Wien, Polish Radio) and presented at prestigious festivals and venues.
As a concert bassist, he performs contemporary solo repertoire. He is also involved in promotional and educational work with children and youth (he has hosted his own programs on Polish Radio), and has composed a number of works for children. In 1999–2016 he directed the ‘Warsaw Autumn’ International Festival of Contemporary Music.
In his early works, in which he often used the collage technique, he willingly put on the mask of irony and grotesque. His mature style is characterised by extremely strong expressive and textural contrasts, sharp dissonances, and the foregrounding of sound colour. In compositions created after 2000, the artist presents an increasingly focused, introverted attitude. In the course of his experiments, he has developed a number of innovative technical solutions such as ‘gesture technique’, ‘sliding etchnique’ and ‘composed trill’.
He has received, among others, the second prize (first was not awarded) in the EAR radio competition in Budapest (1995) for The Very True Story for tape, a recommendation of the UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers in Paris (1999) for Concerto à Rebours, and the Polish Composers’ Union Award (2008).
Wielecki’s works have been commissioned by major institutions and ensembles (including the Hiroshima Symphony Association, Klangforum Wien, Polish Radio) and presented at prestigious festivals and venues.
