DESIGNS IN BLUE SHADOWS for Piano
Commissioned by the Louisiana Music Teachers Association
BLUE SHADOWS for Flute, Clarinet
and Piano
Commissioned by the NYU New Music Ensemble
IMAGES IN BLUE for Saxophone
Quartet
Commissioned by the New Hudson Saxophone Quartet
BLUE TANGO for Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon,
and Piano
Commissioned by the Quatuor Francis
Poulenc
QUINTET for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet,
Bassoon, and Piano
Commissioned by the New York University
New Music Ensemble
FANTASY ON JAZZ for Clarinet Solo and
Symphony Orchestra
Commissioned by Esther Lamneck
FANTASY ON JAZZ transcription for
Clarinet and Piano
WINTER DREAMS for Flute, Clarinet,
Violin, Cello, and Piano
"Winter Dreams" by Barbara
Jazwinski combines romantic nostalgia with elegance.
Contemporanul, Bucharest, Romania
SEQUENZE CONCERTANTI for String
Orchestra
Commissioned by the Louisiana
Sinfonietta
"Sequenze Concertanti", a work by
Tulane professor of composition, Barbara Jazwinski, was commissioned by the
Louisiana Sinfonietta. Sunday's premiere performance showed a work of interest,
featuring layered rhythms and episodes both static and of Bartokian ferocity.
The Advocate, Baton Rouge
CONCERTO FOR CELLO AND CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
The two-movement Cello Concerto by Barbara
Jazwinski...took form through tense and edgy calligraphy, including a finely
delineated cadenza...The concerto ended with colorful lyricism.
The Times Picayune
TO THE EVENING STAR for Soprano, Flute,
Violin, and Piano
Commissioned by the Chamber Music Center
at the Composers' Conference, Wellesley College
VISIONS for Clarinet Solo
Barbara Jazwinski's "Visions" for
clarinet solo avoids the extensions of timbre and scale found in much of the
newest clarinet literature... while still sounding very modern. Long arpeggios
and melodic lines traverse the instrument's entire range, hinting at motivic
relationships that are never explicitly stated. This piece shows off Lamneck's
"traditional playing" in its full glory.
Fanfare
...a glorious solo "Visions" by
Barbara Jazwinski.
Improjazz, France
INVOCATIONS for Violin, Cello, and Piano
"Invocations" by Barbara
Jazwinski features a unique interplay of stylistic conventions in a superb
interpretation by the Warsaw Trio.
Ruch Muzyczny, Poland
REMEMBERING THE MUSES for Women's Choir
a Cappella
MUSIC FOR CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
First Prize in the Nicola Di Lorenzo
Composition Contest
INCANTATIONS for Violin Solo
DIALOGHI for Piano Solo
"Dialoghi" is composed of quick,
violent gestures and short, isolated bursts of action, and it carries quite an
impact.
The Times Picayune
STRYGA for Symphony Orchestra
From the beginning sforzando and overhang
of menace - all low register winds and brass - to the closing moments - blasts
of percussion and brass - there emerges a kaleidoscope of instrumental
combinations that is sometimes dizzying, often fascinating.
...Barbara Jazwinski's demands on the
listener are uncompromising; the voyage to her musical bailiwick is a worthy
undertaking.
ILWC Journal
FLOWER SHADOWS for Soprano, Flute
(piccolo), Clarinet, Violin, Cello, and Piano
STRING TRIO
And a new String Trio, by Barbara Jazwinski
gave glimpses of a young talented voice, creating shimmers and bursts of
mysterious string sound - as if wisps of Webern and Bartok were drifting by,
inspiring reminiscences of things past.
The New York Times
THE SEVENTH NIGHT OF THE SEVENTH MOON
for Soprano, Clarinet, and Piano
This setting of a translated Japanese text
was notable for purity of expression and a direct manner in which slight, exotic
embellishments enhanced rather than obscured mood.
The Times-Picayune
SEXTET for Flute (alto flute), Clarinet
(bass clarinet) Trumpet, Double Bass, and Percussion
Prince Pierre of Monaco Musical
Composition Award
THREE MINIATURES for Flute and Piano
