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(b. 1971 in Warsaw)
– graduate of the J. Elsner Music School in Warsaw in violin faculty, in 1996 composition
– with award (prof. Marian Borkowski) and in 1997 conducting – with award (prof. Ryszard Dudek) at the Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw. Since 1996 assistant in the composition faculty at the Academy. He worked as well with Zoltán Pesko and Lászlo Tihanyi during International Bartók Seminar in Szombathely (Hungary) in
2000, Yuri Simonov at the International Master Course for Conductors in
Budapest in 2003 and 2005 and Gianluigi Gelmetti at the Academia Musicale Chigiana
in Siena (Italy).
(b. 1971 in
Warsaw) – graduate of the J. Elsner Music School in Warsaw in violin
faculty, in 1996 composition with award (prof. Marian Borkowski) and in
1997 conducting with award (prof. Ryszard Dudek) at the Chopin Academy of
Music in Warsaw. 1996–2003 assistant in the composition faculty at the
Academy. Since 2005 assistant professor at the Cyprus College in Nicosia.
Maciej Zoltowski
participated in many master-courses working under supervision of notable
artists like: Zoltán Pesko and Lászlo Tihanyi during International Bartók
Seminar in Szombathely (Hungary), Yuri Simonov at International Master
Courses for Conductors in Budapest and Gianluigi Gelmetti at the Accademia
Musicale Chigiana in Siena (Italy).
Maestro
Zoltowski collaborates with many Polish philharmonic orchestras, the
National Symphony Orchestra of the Polish Radio (Katowice), the Polish
Radio Orchestra (Warsaw) and the Polish Orchestra Jeunesses Musicales. He
has conducted the Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin, the Danish Radio
Symphony Orchestra, the Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra, the Festival
Orchestra of Sofia, the Savaria Symphony Orchestra (Szombathely –
Hungary), the North Hungarian Symphony Orchestra (Miskolc – Hungary), the
MATÁV Symphony Orchestra (Budapest), the Liszt-Wagner Orchestra
(Budapest), the Pilsen Philharmonic (Pilsen – Czech Republic), the Wuhan
Symphony Orchestra (China), the Mikkeli City Orchestra (Finland). He
performes regularly with the
Cyprus State Orchestra (Κρατική Ορχήστρα Κύπρου) in Cyprus and abroad.
His music has been performed during numerous festivals, among others: Two
Days and Two Nights in Odessa (Ukraine), festival Europe-Asia in Kazan (Tatarstan-Russia),
Rheinsberger Musiktage zu Pfingsten in Rheinsberg (Germany), Roaring
Hooves in Mongolia, Composium 1999 in Tokyo, Sound Ways in St. Petersburg,
Past and Future in Odessa and World Music Days 2002 in Hong Kong.
For the artistic
achievements he received twice the Polish Ministry of Culture scholarship
and the Tadeusz Baird scholarship. In 1997 he was awarded with the
fellowship of the German Stiftung Kulturfonds in Künstlerhaus Schloss
Wiepersdorf. In 2000 he won the scholarship for young conductors of the
Japanese Music Foundation JESC. Winner of the 2nd prize at the composers’
competition held by the Warsaw Academy of Catholic Theology Choir. In 1999
finalist of the Toru Takemitsu Composition Award (Tokyo). Semi-finalist in
The Hungarian Television 10th Conductors’ Competition and Sir Georg Solti
1st Conductors’ Competition in Frankfurt/Main. In 2002 he was decorated by
the President of Poland with the Silver Order of Merit.
1994–1996
chairman of the Young Circle in the Polish Composers’ Union. Since 2001
Secretary General of the Warsaw Branch of the Polish Composers’ Union.
1995–2001 Secretary General and 2001–2003 President of Jeunesses Musicales
Poland – the Polish section of the Jeunesses Musicales International. In
2002–2005 Artistic Director and Conductor of the
Cyprus State Orchestra. Since 2007 the Managing and Artistic Director of the Radom Chamber Orchestra.
1992 founder of the Jeunesses Musicales
Orchestra “Con Spirito”
- 1994–1996 chairman of the Youth
Circle of the Polish Composers Union
- since 1995 assistant in the Fryderyk
Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw – lectures in the field of analysis of musical
interpretation and composition
- since 1995 Secretary General of
Jeunesses Musicales Poland, has taken part representing Poland in General Assembly
meetings of the Jeunesses Musicales International in Weikersheim (Germany, 1996) and in
Rotterdam (the Netherlands, 1997). Since 2001 - President of the board.
- 2002-2005
Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Cyprus State Orchestra
- organiser of scientific conferences:
Schubert Symposium (F.Chopin Academy of Music, 1997), International Chopin Conference
(F.Chopin Academy of Music, 1999); active participant in the conferences: Theoretical
Problems of New Music and Art held by the Ukrainian branch of the SOROS Foundation, Composers’
Symposium held by the Chopin Academy
- organiser of artistic events: concert
series presenting young performers in Maly Theatre (Warsaw), concerts of Eric Ericson
Chamber Choir in Poland, concerts of Deutsches Kammerorchester in Poland, concert of
Jeunesses Musicales World Orchestra in Poland (Warsaw, 1999)
- freelance composer and conductor
- violinist, khuuchir (er-hu) and
morin-khuur player
Gow'
symphonic poem for choir and orchestra (1990)
Affecti for violin and recorder (1991)
Quartetto per strumenti da
corde for Mongolian instruments quartet (1992)
Tantra for vocal quintet and organ to the Tibetan liturgical texts (1993)
Four Pieces for Orchestra
(1993)
Beg-tse I for percussion solo (1994)
Beg-tse II for percussion quartet (1995)
Thang-ka for tape (1994)
Anagoge for
Indian sarangi, percussion and organ (1994)
Victimae paschali laudes
for mixed choir a cappella published by Edition Ferrimontana (Frankfurt/Main) (1994)
Emet for violin and
electronic media (1995)
De libertate humana – Pars
I for two mixed choirs, ancient music ensemble, contemporary music ensemble
and symphony orchestra (1996)
Intermezzi
I, II, III
for piano (1997–1999)
Two German Songs: Frühlingswinter and Wiepers Dorf to Ralf Grüneberger's poems for baritone, recorder and
piano - commissioned by APHAIA Verlag, Berlin (1997)
Zwischen Zeiten audio-visual project to Plotin's texts for moving lights,
4 percussionists, 4 oboes, 4 clarinets and tape - commissioned by MusikAkademie Rheinsberg
(Germany) in co-operation with Andreas Schmid (light installation) (1999)
Passacaglia for piano (2000)
Preludes for violin solo (2000)
Overture for percussion sextet (2001)
Paderewski / Zoltowski: 12 Songs after Catulle Mendes – arr.
for orchestra (2001)
Paderewski / Zoltowski: Tatra Album – arr. for orchestra (2001)
Discography
DUX® Recording Producers, Chór Akademii Teologii Katolickiej Victimae
paschali laudes
Falconia® Records, Frühlingswinter, Wiepersdorfer Gedichte und Lieder Two German
Songs, Intermezzo I
Acte Préalable, AP0008, Panorama Nowej Muzyki Polskiej II – Muzyka kameralna Quartetto
per strumenti da corde
Acte Préalable, AP0011, Panorama Nowej Muzyki Polskiej IV – Mistrz i uczniowie Beg-tse
II
Acte Préalable, AP0014, Panorama Nowej Muzyki Polskiej V – Muzyka komputerowa EMET
Acte Préalable, AP0100, XXIth Century Polish Choral Music,
Schola Cantorum Gedanensis, Victimae
paschali laudes
CordAria, CACD 537, Schlagzeug EDITH SALMEN, Beg-tse I
ZFR Records, ZCD-036, II Miedzynarodowy Konkurs Wspolczesnej Muzyki
Kameralnej im. Krzysztofa Pendereckiego w Krakowie, Beg-tse I
Publishers
Edition Ferrimontana (Frankfurt/M) – Victimae paschali
laudes
APHAIA Verlag (Berlin) – Two German Songs
Contact
information
e-mail: mt.zoltowski@gmail.com
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