Bilińska, Aleksandra
Composer, music theorist, improviser, and ethnomusicologist. She graduated from the Faculty of Composition, Conducting and Music Theory at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice and the Postgraduate Course in Ethnomusicology from the University of Warsaw. She is one of the few Polish composers who specialise in music for modern dance theatre. She has written music and scenarios for more than a dozen ballet spectacles choreographed by such eminent Polish artists as Ewa Wycichowska, Aleksandra Dziurosz, Jacek Przybyłowicz, Andrzej Morawiec, and Wojciech Mochniej. She has also collaborated with Ulrike Hager.
Her compositions have been performed throughout Europe, in South America, the United States, Canada, and Taiwan. She also participates in research conferences as a music theorist, teaches piano improvisation workshops, publishes books and papers on music theory. She is an academic teacher at Warsaw’s Fryderyk Chopin University of Music and the Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, member of PSME Polish Society for Electroacoustic Music, Strefa Otwarta / Open Space Association, and ISME International Society for Music Education. Her interests include, among others, 20thand 21st-century composition techniques, electroacoustic music, the correspondence of arts, music in interdisciplinary forms (with special focus on contemporary dance theatre), and, most prominently, the music of Polish women composers. Her DMA dissertation, titled Instrumental Music by Polish 20thand 21st-Century Women Composers and Its Cultural Context, on Selected Examples from 1945–2005, Katowice 2018, will be published in book form in 2024.
Selected works: P®uder-ja for electronic media and dancers (2003), Scontri, study for tape and dancers (2006), Light for tape and dancer (2006), Homo Querens for electronic media, video layer and dancers (2006), Street Phrases, radio drama in movement for electronic media and performers (2007), Piano Preludes hommage a... (2007), String of Light, performative spectacle for female voice, piano, flute, cello, female dancer and electronic media (2008), Voices for tape and dancers (2009), Speechment for electronic media and dancers (2010), Contrasts for voice, electronic media and dancers (2011), Few_Few for electronic media and dancers (2012), Für Otto_Performer (2013), Pink Noise for electronic media and dancers (2013), Age quod agis, electronic music (1st version, 2014), Puppet®-ja for electronic media and dancers (2015), FunAB®-ja for piano, electronic media and performers (2015), Deep Dancing aka Andron®-ja for electronic media and dancer (2016–17), Passage of Time, electronic music (2017), Age quod agis, electronic music (2nd version, 2017), To Pauline, electronic music (2017), Apha ville, electronic music (2018), Love letters never sent, electronic music (2018), The Bell Jar, electronic music (2018), Qui est for bass-baritone and electronics (2019), Schaefferiana_Contour I for piano, flute and electronics (2019), Incantations for female voice, electronics and dancers (2019), #123start for electronic media and dancers (2020), #2020 for electronic media (2020), Landscape for video layer and electronic media (2021; 2nd version for electronic media and dancers), Rain for video layer and electronic media (2021), For O. ...#2020 study for electronic media (2021), #2020... Covid 1984 for Nicholas I. for male voice and electronics (2022), #2020...Soledad for Alesandra R. for flute and electronic media (2023), #2020 ...Scream for Aleksandra P. for oboe and electronic media (2023), and then... Subekumena, Hommage a Barbara Buczek for baritone saxophone and electronic media (2024); film soundtracks: Woman at the Cemetery, dir. Łukasz Łasica (2016), Tenderness, concept, dir. and prod. Ola Rajska (2021).