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Aleksandra Gryka

Country: Poland

Aleksandra Gryka is a Polish composer, born in Warsaw in 1977. She studied composition with Krystyna Moszumańska-Nazar at the Academy of Music in Kraków, graduating in 2003, and writes instrumental, electroacoustic and stage music. She has written a series of operas with the group NOVOFLOT. The Kairos CD Interialcell has Klangforum Wien with Johannes Kalitzke in five pieces written between 2003 and 2020.

Interialcell
Aleksandra Gryka is undoubtedly one of the most enigmatic and fascinating figures of the young generation of Polish composers. She does not comment on her works, does not give interviews, and does not provide critics with an insight into her scores (which even causes the occasional international scandal). She is also mysterious in her music: her works are like planets with their own atmosphere and laws. The narrative is usually torn, fragmentary and always incom plete, it leaves the listener uns…