Lidia Zielinska

Lidia Zielińska (*1953) is a Polish composer. She graduated from the State High School of Music in Poznan, where she studied composition with Andrzej Koszewski. She has received commissions from the Polish Radio, Solidarity Trade Union, Eighth Day Theatre, Holland Dance Festival, Euro-Musik-Theater in Stuttgart, De Ereprijs ensemble, Swedish Radio, Ministry of Culture of Baden-Württemberg, Warsaw Autumn Festival, Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Forbidden City Chamber Orchestra Beijing, Donaueschinger Musiktage. She has worked at the electronic music studios of State High School of Music in Cracow, Stuttgart, Swedish Radio Malmoe, Experimental Studio of Polish Radio in Warsaw, IPEM/BRT in Ghent, EMS in Stockholm, ZKM in Karlsruhe and Experimentalstudio des SWR Freiburg.

She has been the recipient of 17 awards at composers’ competitions. Her works have been performed at festivals in many countries in Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the Americas. In 2007 she received the Polish Composers’ Union Award for her outstanding and comprehensive compositional achievements.

Lidia Zielińska currently holds the post of professor of composition and head of the SMEAMuz Studio of Electroacoustic Music at Poznan’s Music Academy; she also was a professor in sonology at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan (1989-92 and 2001-10).

She has published and lectured extensively on contemporary Polish music, electroacoustic music, the history of experimental music, sound ecology and traditional Japanese music, on the invitation of universities in Europe, Americas, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. She has conducted summer courses, workshops and seminars in Poland and abroad. She serves as a juror, curator, expert and consultant to many musical, intermedial and educational enterprises in many countries in Europe. 

For many years, Lidia Zielińska has fulfilled many official functions; she is currently Vice-President of the Polish Association for Electroacoustic Music, former (-2013) Vice-President of the Board of the Polish Composers’ Union. She has served as a member of the programme committee of the Warsaw Autumn Festival (1989–92 and 1996–2005), artistic director of Musical Spring Contemporary Music Festival in Poznań (1989–92), Child and Sound international festival in Poznań, member of the programme committee of the ISCM World Music Days in Warsaw, of the Musica Electronica Nova in Wroclaw and the Polish-German Radio Copernicus. After the political breakthrough of 1989 she was the initiator and co-founder of the BREVIS Music Publishers (1990), Child and Sound Foundation (1991), music quarterly “Monochord” (1993), Friends of Warsaw Autumn Foundation (1998), “Zachęta“ Greater Poland Region Fine Arts Society (2004), Polish Society for Electroacoustic Music (2005) and other associations.

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