Joanna Bruzdowicz (1943-)
Symphonie n° 2 "Concertino pour orchestre"
Concertino pour piano et orchestre "A la mémoire de Wladyslaw Szpilman"
Concerto pour piano

Tomasz Jocz, piano
Filharmonia Podkarpacka
Lukasz Wodecki, direction

Joanna Bruzdowicz, born in Warsaw, Poland, is considered one of today’s most original composers. After achieving her Master of Arts degree in composition and piano at the Warsaw Academy of Music “Frederic Chopin”, she came to Paris in 1968 with a “Maurice Ravel” State Grant to study with Nadia Boulanger, Olivier Messiaen and Pierre Schaeffer. Joanna Bruzdowicz, who started to compose at the age of 6, has a wide range of artistic interests. She has composed four operas: The Penal Colony after Franz Kafka (F. P. Tours, France 1972), The Women of Troy after Euripides (F. P. Paris, 1973), The Gates of Paradise after Jerzy Andrzejewski (F. P. Warsaw, 1987) and the opera-musical Tides and Waves with a libretto written by her and her husband, H-J. Tittel (F. P. Paris and Barcelona, 1992). She has also written ballet music, symphonic and chamber music, and electro-acoustic and electronic music.