Zach, Barbara  International Festival of Contemporary Music Warsaw Autumn

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From 2018 she studied composition with Janusz Stalmierski at  the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań, obtaining a BMus degree in 2021. She then took a master’s course in  composition, electronic, film and theatre music with Ignacy  Zalewski at Warsaw’s Chopin University of Music (MMus in  composition, June 2024).  

She has composed music for five theatre productions directed  by Marta Twardowska (including one awarded at the Forum of  Young Directors in Cracow). She also cooperated with accordionists on a Chopin University of Music project that yielded a CD  release (including her Refraction for accordion and multipercussion).  

Her achievements include a Special Award in the 5th Piotr Perkow ski National Competition for Composers (2021), finalist  at the Saxophone and Electronics Composition Competition  (2023), participation in the International Synth Design Hackathon (building and programming one’s own instrument in  a team of three over four days in February 2023), and Nuff Film  Workshops in Tromsø (group composition of music for six shorts  simultaneously created by the filmmakers’ teams, 2023). At  the 2023 Warsaw Autumn she presented her installation Oświeć  mnie (Enlighten Me, with sound director Adam Czerski as part  of the Rzeczy wspólne Common Things exhibition at the Czapski  Palace in Warsaw) as well as her compositions Io (perf. Żaneta  Rydzewska and Włodzimierz Żukowski, Warsaw Autumn fringe  event at the Planetarium of the Copernicus Science Centre) and  3C 273 (perf. Przemysław Wojciechowski and Barbara Zach, at  the Electrophonia concert). Her nonage was presented in Dolby  Atmos system as part of the Sound Cinema concert (dir. Wiktor  Skrzypczyński, 2024).  

Apart from music for her own animated films, she created  (in cooperation with Warsaw’s Academy of Fine Arts) a new  soundtrack for the cartoon Laska Chick by Michał Socha. In  2023 she cofounded (with Bartosz Mularski, Julia Marczuk, and  Wł odzi mierz Żukowski) the Collectif4 foundation for the promotion of contemporary art. 

Selected works: Medusa for flute and piano (2018), Reflexion  for vibraphone, 8-channel tape and animated film (2020), Refraction for accordion and multipercussion (2020), Come Inside for  three flutes and 3-channel tape (2020), Mothers for eight percussionists (2021), Scream of the Puppets for orchestra (2021),  Discordia for four sopranos and orchestra (2021), Tunnelma for  orchestra (2022), Mneme, concerto for clarinet and orchestra (2022), Animal Planet, a performance in three acts for voice, live  electronics, tape and video (2022), C1965 for saxophone and tape  (2023), 3C 273 for accordion, live electronics, tape and animated  film (2023), Children Should Be Seen and Not Heard, performance for voice, accordion, live electronics, tape and video (2023),  Where Am I? for accordion, tape and photographs (2023), Io for  bass clarinet, cello, live electronics and tape (2023), nonage, Dolby  Atmos electronic piece (2024), dyspnoea for string orchestra  (2024), carbon dioxide for three voices, live electronics, tape and  lights (2024), carbon dioxide 2.0 for three voices, live electronics,  ensemble, tape and lights (2024), In Hiding – Dark Forest Hypothesis for four accordions and tape (2025), Yggdrasill for mezzosoprano, piano and multipercussion (2025), Xylaria Polyorpha  for multipercussion and animation (2025), Conocybe filaris for  ensemble, tape and animation (2026); theatre and film music.