Chamber Music

It has finally arrived: the monograph CD by Marcin Stańczyk, one of Poland’s most original young composers. But not only composers; he is also a professional lawyer, accordionist, and chorister. But not only Polish composers, because he is also current in music abroad: after completing his studies under Zygmunt Krauze at the Grażyna Bacewicz Academy of Music in Łódź, he continued his education at Rome’s Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under Ivan Fedele. He was scholarship recipient, travelling both to Darmstadt and IRCAM, two key locations on the European map of contemporary music. He is being played at the Warsaw Autumn and Sacrum Profanum festivals, but also the Biennale di Venezia and Gaudeamus Music Week, as well as the Bang on a Can marathons. This is a true creator, free of complexes, liberated from external influences and advancing toward his own style, as this CD testifies. (2010) Jan Topolski