Barbara Jazwinski

Barbara Jazwinski is a Polish-American composer and pianist known for her contributions to contemporary music. She is Head of the Composition Program at the Newcomb Music Department, Tulane University in New Orleans. She was honored with the Prince Pierre of Monaco Composition Award for her work on the Sextet, and she also secured the top position in the Nicola De Lorenzo Composition Contest for her composition of Music for Chamber Orchestra.^[1]^[2]

Education

She studied composition and theory at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw and earned her M.A. in composition and piano from Stanford University and her Ph.D. in composition from the City University of New York.^[3]^[4]

Career

Jazwinski's music has been selected for programming at Diffrazioni Multimedia Festival in Florence, the London Festival of American Music, Laboratorium Muzyki Wspolczesnej in Poland, Washington Square Contemporary Music Series, the New York University New Music Ensemble, and the International Music by Women Festival in Oxford, Mississippi.^[5]^[6]

Her works have been performed or recorded by ensembles and organizations such as the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Polish Radio and TV Orchestra of Cracow, the Koszalin Philharmonic, the New Orleans Chamber Orchestra, Shenson Recital Series at Stanford, Klassik & Elektronik Music Play in Berlin, and the Filarmonica de Stat Banatul in Timișoara, Romania, The ISCM Virtual Collaborative Series, International Double Reed Conference, International Clarinet Association.^[7]^[8]

Since 1988, she has served as the Music Director of Spectri Sonori, an acclaimed concert series dedicated to contemporary music.^[9]

Selected works

Jazwinski's music is published by the American Composers Edition.^[10]

Wind Shadows for bassoon and piano
She is a [dancer] for the SATB choir and piano
Dreams of Vagabond Winds for oboe, clarinet, and bassoon
Dreams interrupted... for guitar solo
Blue Waltz for Youth Symphony Orchestra
Shadows in Shades of Blue for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano
The Girl by the Ocean, for baritone and piano
Soliloquy, for clarinet solo
Designs in Blue Shadows for piano solo
Blue Shadows for flute, clarinet, and piano
Images in Blue for the saxophone quartet
Blue Tango for oboe, clarinet, saxophone, and bassoon
Quintet for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and piano
Fantasy on Jazz for clarinet solo and symphony orchestra
Winter Dreams for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and percussion
Sequenze Concertanti, for string orchestra
Stryga for symphony orchestra
Concerto for Violoncello and Chamber Orchestra
To the Evening Star for soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, and piano
Visions for clarinet solo
Invocations for violin, cello, and piano
Incantations for violin solo
The Seventh Night of the Seventh Moon for soprano, clarinet, and piano
Sextet for flute (a. fl.), clarinet (b. cl.), trumpet, double bass, and percussion
String Trio
Cantique de Saint-Jean for chorus and symphony orchestra
Dialoghi for piano solo
Three Miniatures for Flute and Piano

Selected discography

Fantasy on Jazz (NV6519)
The Girl by the Ocean (Lorelt 143)
Stryga for symphony orchestra (VMM 3002)
Visions for clarinet solo (CPS 8641, CPS 8668)
Winter Dreams for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and percussion (CPS 8630)
Images in Blue for saxophone quartet (RR 7805)
Sequenze Concertanti (VMM 3024)
Blue Tango (MGB CD 6213)

Virtual albums

Various Artists – Designs in Blue Shadows (Chamber Music of Barbara Jazwinski)
Fantasy on Jazz, transcription for clarinet and piano
Visions for clarinet solo
Designs in Blue Shadows
Dialoghi
Soliloquy for clarinet solo
Incantations
Invocations

Selected publications

Jazwinski, B. M. (1984). Four Compositions by Tadeusz Baird: An Analytic Essay. City University of New York.
Winston, J. L., Jazwinski, B. M., Corey, D. M., & Colombo, P. J. (2022). Music training, and the ability of musicians to harmonize, are associated with enhanced planning and problem-solving. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 805186.

References

^ "Barbara M. Jazwinski". Tulane University School of Liberal Arts.
^ "Barbara Jazwinski". American Composers Alliance. 2 January 2002.
^ "Barbara Jazwinski: Dreams of Vagabond Winds". International Society for Contemporary Music. 28 September 2022.
^ "Women's Voices: a sung celebration of six eloquent and confident voices". Opera Today. 27 August 2020.
^ "Barbara Jazwinski". Navona Records.
^ "Faculty piano recital to celebrate women in music April 19". Delta State University. 14 April 2022.
^ "Royal Scottish National Orchestra". Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
^ Giraudet, Jean-Paul (24 September 2003). "Barbara". Musicalics (in French).
^ "Recordings by Barbara Jazwinski | Now available to stream and purchase at Naxos". Naxos (company).
^ "Barbara Jazwinski, new work premiered by Sonora Winds at IDRS conference, July 2021". American Composers Alliance.

[1] "Barbara M. Jazwinski". Tulane University School of Liberal Arts.

[2] "Barbara Jazwinski". American Composers Alliance. 2 January 2002.

[3] "Barbara Jazwinski: Dreams of Vagabond Winds". International Society for Contemporary Music. 28 September 2022.

[4] "Women's Voices: a sung celebration of six eloquent and confident voices". Opera Today. 27 August 2020.

[5] "Barbara Jazwinski". Navona Records.

[6] "Faculty piano recital to celebrate women in music April 19". Delta State University. 14 April 2022.

[7] "Royal Scottish National Orchestra". Royal Scottish National Orchestra.

[8] Giraudet, Jean-Paul (24 September 2003). "Barbara". Musicalics (in French).

[9] "Recordings by Barbara Jazwinski | Now available to stream and purchase at Naxos". Naxos (company).

[10] "Barbara Jazwinski, new work premiered by Sonora Winds at IDRS conference, July 2021". American Composers Alliance.

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