Zdzisław Wysocki

Zdzisław Wysocki is a composer, born in 1944 in Poznań(Posen) Poland.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]

Wysocki studied Composition in Poznań (1963–1968)[12] and later at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna with Erich Urbanner. He became an Austrian citizen in 1976.

Wysocki's works have been performed widely in Europa by the Ensemble Wiener Collage and its artistic director René Staar: at the Salzburg Festival in 2003, the Kölner Philharmonie in 2000, the Stars of the White Nights Festival in 2007, at the Wiener Konzerthaus in 1996, and at numerous other occasions. His work "Double Concerto" has been premiered by Kent Nagano in San Francisco in 2002, his three orchestra Etudes (Nr. 99-101) were premiered in February 2014 by the McGill Symphony Orchestra, Montreal, under the baton of Alexis Hauser. He has written numerous commissions for the Ensemble Wiener Collage.

His work melds elements of the 2nd Vienna School and the Polish Avantgarde, namely Witold Lutosławski, into a characteristic musical language, in which segments of rhythmical impact and freedom of expression create new forms of interaction. While his work seems to be intellectually conceived, it surprises public and reviewers with its great spectrum of different ideas and instrumental colors, which he permanently develops further especially in his Etudes. This big collection of differentiated pieces has become a centerpiece of Wysocki's output over the years, and is an example of the development of Wysocki's style. Once apostrophed as Miniature Dramolets, the Etudes present an ideal counterpart to Wysocki's bigger pieces, such as his Double Concerto or the recently written Cello Concerto.