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Barbara M. Jazwinski,
M.A., Ph.D.
Chairman of the Department The Virginia Beer Professor of Music
Music Composition and Theory
jazwinsk@tulane.edu
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Music Department
256 Dixon Annex
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA 70118-5683
Voice: (504) 865-5251
Fax: (504) 865-5270
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Barbara Jazwinski studied composition and theory at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, Poland. She received her M.A. degree in composition and piano from Stanford University and her Ph.D. in composition from the City University of New York. Her teachers included Mario Davidovsky, Andrzej Dobrowolski, Gyorgy Ligeti and John Chowning. Currently, she is Head of the Composition Program at the Newcomb Music Department, Tulane University in New Orleans.
Barbara Jazwinski's music has been heard throughout the United
States, Europe, and the Far East. Her compositions were presented at many
well-known concert series and festivals including the League of Composers - ISCM, The Koszalin
Philharmonic, Polish Music Festival in Montreal, 5th Laboratory of Contemporary
Music in Siedlce, Poland, New Music Festival, Edmonton Composers' Concert Society, New
York University New Music Ensemble, 6th International Festival of Contemporary
Music "Laboratorium", Washington Square Contemporary Music Series, the
Fanfare Festival, Gegenwelten Festival (Mannheim - Heidelberg), North/South
Consonance, International Festival - 10th Laboratory of Contemporary Music,
Warsaw, Poland.
Ms. Jazwinski has been active as a performer, conductor and promoter of
contemporary music. Since 1988, she has served as Music Director of Spectri
Sonori, an award-winning concert series that specializes in performances of
contemporary music. The series has presented over 50 programs thus far and
featured over 300 works for a variety of chamber ensembles. The concert series
also sponsors the Spectri Sonori International Composition Contest.
Among her awards are the Prince Pierre of Monaco
Composition Award for her Sextet, the First Prize in the Nicola
De Lorenzo Composition Contest for Music for Chamber Orchestra and a Special
Prize awarded by the Polish Composers' Alliance in the First Competition
for Improvised Music, Gdansk, Poland. She
is the recipient of numerous commissions, grants and fellowships including
commissions from the New York University New Music Ensemble, Louisiana Music Teachers Association, Esther Lamneck, Louisiana
Sinfonietta, New Hudson Saxophone Quartet, Chamber Music Center at the Composers' Conference at Wellesley
College, Quatuor Francis Poulenc, an Artist Fellowship from the Louisiana State
Arts Council, grants from the Presser Foundation, Newcomb Foundation, Metzner
Foundation, Meet the Composer, Inc., and several others.
Barbara Jazwinski's compositions are available through
the American Composers Edition, 73 Spring Street, Room 505, New York, NY 10012,
tel: (212) 362-8900, info@composers.com.
SELECTED
COMPOSITIONS
SPECTRI SONORI
COURSES
TAUGHT AT TULANE
DISCOGRAPHY
WINTER DREAMS
for Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Piano and Percussion
NYU New Music Ensemble,
Esther Lamneck, director
EXPANDING HORIZONS
Capstone CPS-8630
Albany Distributors, 98 Wolf
Road, Albany, NY 12205
Tel. (800)752-1951
VISIONS for
clarinet solo
Esther Lamneck,
clarinet
DIVERSE SETTINGS FOR
THE CLARINET
Capstone CPS-8641
VISIONS
for clarinet solo
Emil Sein, clarinet
SPIRALS OF TIME
Capstone CPS-8668
SEQUENZE
CONCERTANTI for String Orchestra
Koszalin Philharmonic
NEW MUSIC FOR ORCHESTRA
Vienna Modern Masters
VMM 3024
STRYGA
for Symphony Orchestra
Polish Radio and TV
Symphony Orchestra of Cracow
MUSIC FROM SIX
CONTINENTS
Vienna Modern Masters
VMM 3002
BLUE TANGO
Quatuor Francis Poulenc
Musiques Suisses
MGB CD 6213
New York University New Music Ensemble
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