Hanna Kulenty
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Hanna Kulenty is a Polish composer of contemporary classical music
. Since 1992, she has worked and lived both in Warsaw
(Poland
) and in Arnhem
(The Netherlands).
School of Music in Warsaw from 1976 to 1980, Kulenty studied composition with Włodzimierz Kotoński at the Fryderyk Chopin Music Academy
in Warsaw. From 1986 to 1988 she studied composition
with Louis Andriessen
at the Royal Conservatory
in The Hague
. In 1984 and 1988 she participated in Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music. In 1983 and 1990 she was participant in the International Courses for Young Composers in Kazimierz
, organised by the Polish section of the ISCM — where she attended lectures with Iannis Xenakis
, Witold Lutosławski, Thomas Kessler and François-Bernard Mâche
.
s and 12 works for large orchestra
. She has written numerous works for solo instruments and chamber groups. Since 2007 she is also involved in writing music for television plays and for film.
In 1990 she was for one year guest composer at the German Academic Exchange Service
(DAAD) in Berlin
. In 1998 she was invited as guest lecturer at three universities around Los Angeles
.In 1999/2000 she was composer-in-residence with Het Gelders Orkest in The Netherlands. In November 2000 a portrait concert was organized by Deutschlandfunk
in Cologne
(released on the CD ‘Arcs & Circles’). She lectured at the Other Minds
10 festival (San Francisco) and at Soundstreams Canada 2005 in Toronto
. In 2007 she was guest professor at the ESMUC, Music Academy in Barcelona
.
She was a jury member during Munich
Biennale in 1995, during the Gaudeamus International Composers Award
2002 in Amsterdam
, during the Kazimierz Serocki
9th International Composers’ Competition in Warsaw (2003), during the International New Chamber Opera Competition “Orpheus-Luciano Berio
2003-2004” in Spoleto
, and in 2005 and 2007 during the International Competition of Contemporary Chamber Music in Cracow
.
Her compositional style has evolved during the years since her dazzling orchestral debut, Ad Unum, a powerful, dissonant, dramatic and well-crafted study of convergence towards musical unity. Since that work, Kulenty’s preferred medium has been the symphony orchestra.
Through the 1990s the composer developed an original version of ‘post-minimalist’ style, characterized by a reduction of the number and density of musical layers, in comparison with the earlier, saturated and dramatic style of the ‘polyphony of arches’. She called this style her version of the ‘European trance music’. Kulenty seldom used sudden textural cuts and shifts in this period. Instead, she often structured her compositions as single, powerful arches, slowly evolving in time, gradually increasing their gripping intensity of emotion.
Her penchant for musical drama and intensity of emotion found a suitable expression in her music for stage. The ‘intuitive constructivism’ coupled with a heightened emotional intensity of her music is well-suited for highlighting dramatic situations. Kulenty’s mastery of time and her ability to structure her musical material into layers moving inexorably, inevitably towards powerful climaxes brings a symphonic dimension to her other theatrical compositions.
Kulenty’s latest compositional technique of the ‘polyphony of time dimensions’ emphasizes the circularity of time and the simultaneity of time-events occurring on different temporal planes.”
In 1987 she was awarded the Stanislaw Wyspianski Award (2nd class).
In the same year she was awarded the second prize by the Young Composers’ Competition of the Polish Composers’ Union with Ride for 6 percussionists (1987).
She was also awarded prizes in the Composers’ Competition from the Warsaw branche of the Polish Composers’ Union: Quinto for 2 piano’s (1986), first prize; Breathe for string orchestra (1987), first prize;Cannon for violin and piano (1988) third prize; aaa TRE for viola, cello and double bass (1988) second prize 1989.
In 2003 her composition Trumpet Concerto (2002) won the first prize at UNESCO’s 50th International Rostrum of Composers
, for which she received the UNESCO Mozart Medal
from the International Music Council
.
Her compositions Preludium, Postludium and Psalm, for cello and accordion (2007) and String Quartet No. 3 - Tel me about it (2008), were respectively chosen among the ten best Dutch compositions of 2007 and 2008 during the ‘Toonzetters’ contest in Amsterdam.
, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival
, Munich Biennale
, Warsaw Autumn
, and Musica Polonica Nova. Her numerous orchestral pieces have been performed by symphony orchestras in Holland (Radio Filharmonisch Orkest), Denmark (Danish National Symphony Orchestra
), Poland, and Germany (Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
), with conductors such as David Porcelijn
, Antoni Wit
, Peter Hirsch, Peter Eötvös
, Ingo Metzmacher
, Renato Rivolta, and Ronald Zollman
. Soloists such as Isabelle van Keulen, Elisabeth Chojnacka
, Krzysztof Bąkowski, Marco Blaauw
, and Frank Peters have performed her work, as have the Dutch ensemble De Ereprijs, who commissioned her to write pieces on several occasions. In 2008 the Kronos Quartet
performed her String Quartet No. 4. Since the success of her opera The Mother of Black-Winged Dreams at the Munich Biennale 1996 she is considered “one of the leading figures on the Polish composers’ scene”.
Kulenty’s compositions are published by Donemus
(part of Music Center the Netherlands
) in Amsterdam and by PWM Edition in Cracow.
Contemporary classical music
Contemporary classical music can be understood as belonging to the period that started in the mid-1970s with the retreat of modernism. However, the term may also be employed in a broader sense to refer to all post-1945 modern musical forms.-Categorization:...
. Since 1992, she has worked and lived both in Warsaw
Warsaw
Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...
(Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
) and in Arnhem
Arnhem
Arnhem is a city and municipality, situated in the eastern part of the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of Gelderland and located near the river Nederrijn as well as near the St. Jansbeek, which was the source of the city's development. Arnhem has 146,095 residents as one of the...
(The Netherlands).
Musical education
After studying piano at the Karol SzymanowskiKarol Szymanowski
Karol Maciej Szymanowski was a Polish composer and pianist.-Life:Szymanowski was born into a wealthy land-owning Polish gentry family in Tymoszówka, then in the Russian Empire, now in Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine. He studied music privately with his father before going to Gustav Neuhaus'...
School of Music in Warsaw from 1976 to 1980, Kulenty studied composition with Włodzimierz Kotoński at the Fryderyk Chopin Music Academy
Fryderyk Chopin Music Academy
The Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw is located at ulica Okólnik 2 in central Warsaw, Poland...
in Warsaw. From 1986 to 1988 she studied composition
Musical composition
Musical composition can refer to an original piece of music, the structure of a musical piece, or the process of creating a new piece of music. People who practice composition are called composers.- Musical compositions :...
with Louis Andriessen
Louis Andriessen
Louis Andriessen is a Dutch composer and pianist based in Amsterdam. He teaches composition at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague...
at the Royal Conservatory
Royal Conservatory of The Hague
The Royal Conservatory of The Hague is a conservatorium of music, providing higher education in music and dance, it is located in The Hague, Netherlands.-The Conservatory:...
in The Hague
The Hague
The Hague is the capital city of the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. With a population of 500,000 inhabitants , it is the third largest city of the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam...
. In 1984 and 1988 she participated in Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music. In 1983 and 1990 she was participant in the International Courses for Young Composers in Kazimierz
Kazimierz
Kazimierz is a historical district of Kraków , best known for being home to a Jewish community from the 14th century until the Second World War.-Early history:...
, organised by the Polish section of the ISCM — where she attended lectures with Iannis Xenakis
Iannis Xenakis
Iannis Xenakis was a Romanian-born Greek ethnic, naturalized French composer, music theorist, and architect-engineer. He is commonly recognized as one of the most important post-war avant-garde composers...
, Witold Lutosławski, Thomas Kessler and François-Bernard Mâche
François-Bernard Mâche
François-Bernard Mâche is a French composer of contemporary music. Born into a family of musicians, he is a former student of Émile Passani and Olivier Messiaen and has also received a diploma in Greek archaeology and a teaching certificate...
.
Main activities
From 1989 Kulenty worked as a free-lance composer, and received numerous commissions and scholarships. She has composed 2 operaOpera
Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...
s and 12 works for large orchestra
Orchestra
An orchestra is a sizable instrumental ensemble that contains sections of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. The term orchestra derives from the Greek ορχήστρα, the name for the area in front of an ancient Greek stage reserved for the Greek chorus...
. She has written numerous works for solo instruments and chamber groups. Since 2007 she is also involved in writing music for television plays and for film.
In 1990 she was for one year guest composer at the German Academic Exchange Service
German Academic Exchange Service
The German Academic Exchange Service or DAAD is the largest German support organisation in the field of international academic co-operation....
(DAAD) in Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
. In 1998 she was invited as guest lecturer at three universities around Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
.In 1999/2000 she was composer-in-residence with Het Gelders Orkest in The Netherlands. In November 2000 a portrait concert was organized by Deutschlandfunk
Deutschlandfunk
Deutschlandfunk is a German public broadcasting radio station, broadcasting national news and current affairs.-History:Broadcasting in the Federal Republic of Germany is reserved under the Basic Law to the states. This means that all public broadcasting is regionalised...
in Cologne
Cologne
Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...
(released on the CD ‘Arcs & Circles’). She lectured at the Other Minds
Other Minds
Other Minds is a San Francisco based private 501 not-for-profit organization, founded in 1992 by Charles Amirkhanian and Jim Newman...
10 festival (San Francisco) and at Soundstreams Canada 2005 in Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
. In 2007 she was guest professor at the ESMUC, Music Academy in Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
.
She was a jury member during Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
Biennale in 1995, during the Gaudeamus International Composers Award
Gaudeamus International Composers Award
The Gaudeamus International Composers Award is a European award issued by the Music Center the Netherlands...
2002 in Amsterdam
Amsterdam
Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
, during the Kazimierz Serocki
Kazimierz Serocki
Kazimierz Serocki was a Polish composer and one of the founders of the Warsaw Autumn contemporary music festival.-Life:...
9th International Composers’ Competition in Warsaw (2003), during the International New Chamber Opera Competition “Orpheus-Luciano Berio
Luciano Berio
Luciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian composer. He is noted for his experimental work and also for his pioneering work in electronic music.-Biography:Berio was born at Oneglia Luciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (October 24, 1925 – May 27, 2003) was an Italian...
2003-2004” in Spoleto
Spoleto
Spoleto is an ancient city in the Italian province of Perugia in east central Umbria on a foothill of the Apennines. It is S. of Trevi, N. of Terni, SE of Perugia; SE of Florence; and N of Rome.-History:...
, and in 2005 and 2007 during the International Competition of Contemporary Chamber Music in Cracow
Kraków
Kraków also Krakow, or Cracow , is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Kraków has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life...
.
Style and technique of composition
“Hanna Kulenty’s music is permeated with images of organic transformation and growth. The intuitive shaping of evolving sound patterns, extended phrases and richly detailed textures in these works results from Kulenty’s original compositional technique which she calls ‘the polyphony of arches’ or ‘arcs’. The works include many layers of simultaneous ‘arches’ which may begin at different points of their trajectories and proceed at different speeds.Her compositional style has evolved during the years since her dazzling orchestral debut, Ad Unum, a powerful, dissonant, dramatic and well-crafted study of convergence towards musical unity. Since that work, Kulenty’s preferred medium has been the symphony orchestra.
Through the 1990s the composer developed an original version of ‘post-minimalist’ style, characterized by a reduction of the number and density of musical layers, in comparison with the earlier, saturated and dramatic style of the ‘polyphony of arches’. She called this style her version of the ‘European trance music’. Kulenty seldom used sudden textural cuts and shifts in this period. Instead, she often structured her compositions as single, powerful arches, slowly evolving in time, gradually increasing their gripping intensity of emotion.
Her penchant for musical drama and intensity of emotion found a suitable expression in her music for stage. The ‘intuitive constructivism’ coupled with a heightened emotional intensity of her music is well-suited for highlighting dramatic situations. Kulenty’s mastery of time and her ability to structure her musical material into layers moving inexorably, inevitably towards powerful climaxes brings a symphonic dimension to her other theatrical compositions.
Kulenty’s latest compositional technique of the ‘polyphony of time dimensions’ emphasizes the circularity of time and the simultaneity of time-events occurring on different temporal planes.”
Awards
In 1985 Kulenty was awarded the second prize of the European Young Composers’ Competition organized in Amsterdam with Ad Unum for orchestra (1985).In 1987 she was awarded the Stanislaw Wyspianski Award (2nd class).
In the same year she was awarded the second prize by the Young Composers’ Competition of the Polish Composers’ Union with Ride for 6 percussionists (1987).
She was also awarded prizes in the Composers’ Competition from the Warsaw branche of the Polish Composers’ Union: Quinto for 2 piano’s (1986), first prize; Breathe for string orchestra (1987), first prize;Cannon for violin and piano (1988) third prize; aaa TRE for viola, cello and double bass (1988) second prize 1989.
In 2003 her composition Trumpet Concerto (2002) won the first prize at UNESCO’s 50th International Rostrum of Composers
International Rostrum of Composers
The International Rostrum of Composers is an annual forum organized by the International Music Council that offers broadcasting representatives the opportunity to exchange and publicize pieces of contemporary classical music...
, for which she received the UNESCO Mozart Medal
UNESCO Mozart Medal
The UNESCO Mozart Medal is an award named after Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and administered by UNESCO.-Recipients:* Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, 1991* Alicia Terzian, 1995* Elfi von Dassanowsky, 1996...
from the International Music Council
International Music Council
The International Music Council was created in 1949 as UNESCO's advisory body on matters of music. It is based at UNESCO's headquarters in Paris, France, where it functions as an independent international non-governmental organization...
.
Her compositions Preludium, Postludium and Psalm, for cello and accordion (2007) and String Quartet No. 3 - Tel me about it (2008), were respectively chosen among the ten best Dutch compositions of 2007 and 2008 during the ‘Toonzetters’ contest in Amsterdam.
About the performances
Kulenty’s compositions have been premiered at festivals throughout the world, such as the Huddersfield Contemporary Music FestivalHuddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
The Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival is held in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. It has a repertoire of cutting-edge jazz, orchestral, choral and electroacoustic performances, along with film, dance and music theatre...
, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival
Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival
The Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival is a classical music festival held every year in summer time all over the state of Schleswig-Holstein in Northern Germany....
, Munich Biennale
Munich Biennale
The Munich Biennale is an opera festival in the city of Munich. The full German name is Internationales Festival für neues Musiktheater, literally: International Festival for New Music Theater. The biennial festival was created in 1988 by Hans Werner Henze and is held in even-numbered years over...
, Warsaw Autumn
Warsaw Autumn
Warsaw Autumn is the largest international Polish festival of contemporary music. Indeed, for many years, it was the only festival of its type in Central and Eastern Europe. It was founded in 1956 by two composers, Tadeusz Baird and Kazimierz Serocki, and officially established by the Head Board...
, and Musica Polonica Nova. Her numerous orchestral pieces have been performed by symphony orchestras in Holland (Radio Filharmonisch Orkest), Denmark (Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
The Danish National Symphony Orchestra , is a Danish orchestra based in Copenhagen. The DNSO is the principal orchestra of DR...
), Poland, and Germany (Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
The Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin is an orchestra based in Berlin, Germany. It was founded in 1946 by American occupation forces as the RIAS-Symphonie-Orchester . It was also known as the American Sector Symphony Orchestra...
), with conductors such as David Porcelijn
David Porcelijn
David Porcelijn is a Dutch composer and conductor.David Porcelijn studied flute, composition and conducting at the Royal Conservatoire of Music in The Hague...
, Antoni Wit
Antoni Wit
Antoni Wit is a Polish conductor. He is the present musical director of the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra.Wit graduated from Kraków's State Higher School of Music, studying conducting under Henryk Czyz and composition under Krzysztof Penderecki, going on to study under Nadia Boulanger in...
, Peter Hirsch, Peter Eötvös
Peter Eötvös
Péter Eötvös is a Hungarian composer and conductor.Eötvös was born in Odorheiu Secuiesc/Székelyudvarhely, Szeklerland, Transylvania . He studied composition in Budapest and Cologne. From 1962, he composed for film in Hungary. Eötvös played regularly with the Stockhausen Ensemble between 1968 and...
, Ingo Metzmacher
Ingo Metzmacher
Ingo Metzmacher is a German conductor. He is the son of the cellist Rudolf Metzmacher. His musical education in piano, music theory and conducting was in Hanover, Salzburg and Cologne...
, Renato Rivolta, and Ronald Zollman
Ronald Zollman
Ronald Zollman is a Belgian conductor. He began musical studies at age 4. He attended the Royal Conservatories in Antwerp and in Brussels, and later studied with Igor Markevitch and Nadia Boulanger....
. Soloists such as Isabelle van Keulen, Elisabeth Chojnacka
Elisabeth Chojnacka
Elisabeth Chojnacka is a Polish harpsichordist living in France. She is one of the world's foremost harpsichordists specializing in the performance of contemporary harpsichord music....
, Krzysztof Bąkowski, Marco Blaauw
Marco Blaauw
Marco Blaauw is a Dutch trumpeter.- Biography :Marco Blaauw studied trumpet at the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam. He continued studying with Pierre Thibaud and with Markus Stockhausen. He has an international career as a trumpet soloist and is a permanent member of the ensemble musikFabrik...
, and Frank Peters have performed her work, as have the Dutch ensemble De Ereprijs, who commissioned her to write pieces on several occasions. In 2008 the Kronos Quartet
Kronos Quartet
Kronos Quartet is a string quartet founded by violinist David Harrington in 1973 in Seattle, Washington. Since 1978, the quartet has been based in San Francisco, California. The longest-running combination of performers had Harrington and John Sherba on violin, Hank Dutt on viola, and Joan...
performed her String Quartet No. 4. Since the success of her opera The Mother of Black-Winged Dreams at the Munich Biennale 1996 she is considered “one of the leading figures on the Polish composers’ scene”.
Kulenty’s compositions are published by Donemus
Donemus
Donemus is the Dutch institute dealing with the documentation of contemporary music composed in the Netherlands....
(part of Music Center the Netherlands
Music Center the Netherlands
Music Center the Netherlands is an organization that promotes and archives Dutch professional music. It aims to strengthens the position of Dutch music and music culture in the Netherlands and abroad. It organizes events and informative meetings, workshops, courses; publishes promotional CDs; and...
) in Amsterdam and by PWM Edition in Cracow.
Operas and other stage works
- Hoffmanniana (2003) - opera in two acts
- The Mother of Black-Winged Dreams (1995) - opera in one act
- Przypowieść o ziarnie [Parable on grain] (1985) - chamber opera / monodrama
- Island (2006) - stage work for trumpet solo, voice, ensemble and tape
- Lost & Found twenty-five (2008) - music-dance theater for ensemble and tape
Symphony orchestra and chamber orchestra
- Ad unum (1985) - symphony orchestra
- Breathe (1987) - chamber orchestra
- Certus (1997) - chamber orchestra
- Part One (1998) - symphony orchestra
- Passacaglia (1992) - chamber orchestra
- Piano Concerto No. 2 (1991) - piano, symphony orchestra
- Piano Concerto No. 3 (2003) - piano, symphony orchestra
- Quatro (1986) - chamber orchestra
- Trigon (1989) - chamber orchestra
- Sinequan Forte A (1994) - solo amplified cello with delay, symphony orchestra
- Sinequan Forte B (1994) solo amplified cello with delay, chamber orchestra
- Symphony No. 1 (1986) - symphony orchestra
- Symphony No. 2 (1987) - symphony orchestra, mixed choir
- Symphony No. 3 (2000) - symphony orchestra
- Trumpet Concerto (2002) - trumpet, symphony orchestra
- Violin Concerto No. 1 (1993) - violin, symphony orchestra
- Violin Concerto No. 2 (1996) - violin, symphony orchestra
Large ensemble
- A few minutes for Ereprijs (1992) - ensemble
- Air (1991) - ensemble
- Elfen (1997) - ballet music for ensemble
- Flute Concerto no. 1 (2001) - flute (amplified, delay) and chamber orchestra
- Going Up 2 (1995) - ensemble
- Mezzo Tango (2004) - brass band
- Mezzo Tango 2 (2005) - ensemble
- Piano Concerto No. 1 (1990) - piano, ensemble
- Perpetuus (1989) - ensemble
- Postcard from Europe (2004) - ensemble
- Violin Concerto No. 1 (1992) - violin, ensemble
Chamber groups
- Arcus (1988) - three percussionists
- aaa TRE (1988) - viola, cello, double bass
- A Cradle Song (1993) - violin, cello, piano
- A Fourth Circle (1994) - violin (or viola/cello) and piano
- A Sixth Circle (1995) - trumpet, piano
- Asjaawaa (2001) - mezzo soprano, flute, harp, piano, percussion, electronics
- Blattinus (1996) - saxophone quartet
- Brass No. 2 (2005) - for horn and trumpet
- Cannon (1988) - violin, piano
- Crossing Lines (2001) - violin, clarinet, piano
- Decimo (2000) - for choir, six voices
- Going Up 1 (1995) - violin, double bass
- Kisses & Crosses (2007) - for piano and percussion
- Lysanxia (1994) - gamelan, tape
- MM-blues (1999) - two piano’s and two percussions
- Preludium, Postludium and Psalm (2007) - for cello and accordion
- Quinto (1986) - two pianos
- Rainbow 3 (2003) - piano and two wind instruments
- Rapidus (1998) - saxophone quartet
- Ride (1987) - six percussionists
- Run (2004) - flute and piano
- Sierra (1996) - violin, cello
- Stretto (1998) - flute, clarinet, cello, guitar
- String Quartet no. 1 (1984)
- String Quartet No. 2 (1990)
- String Quartet No. 3 - Tell me about it (2007)
- String Quartet No. 4 (A Cradle Song) (2007)
- Sugar-Fela Tango (2009) - for piano and four instruments
- Tell me about it 1 (2006) - for clarinet, cello, trombone and piano
- Tell me about it 2 (2006) - for bass clarinet, cello, trombone and contra bas
- Waiting for… (1997) - voice, piano
Solo instruments
- Arci (1986) - percussion solo
- A Fifth Circle (1994) - alto flute with delay
- A Third Circle (1996) - piano solo
- Brass No. 1 (2004) - trumpet solo
- Brass No. 2 (2004) - horn and trumpet
- Brass No. 3 (2005) - horn solo or trumpet solo
- Brass No. 4 (2007) - tuba solo
- Cadenza (1992) - violin solo with delay
- Drive Blues (2000) - piano solo
- E for E (1991) - harpsichord solo
- Harmonium (1999) - harmonium solo
- One by One (1988) - marimba solo
- Preludium and Psalm (2007) - harmonium solo or another keyboard instrument
- Sesto (1985) - piano solo
- Sinequan (1993) - cello solo with optional delay
- Sinequan (rev. 1993) - cello solo with delay
- Still Life with a Cello (1993) - cello solo
- Still Life with a Violin (1985) - violin solo
- Three Minutes for the Double Bass (1983) - double bass solo
Electroacoustic music
- Prośba o Słońce [Request for the Sun] (1984) - electroacoustic tape
- Souvenir from a Sanatorium (1988) - computer music
External links
- Hanna Kulenty’s official website
- Polish Music Center
- Polish Music Information Centre
- Donemus, Dutch publisher
- PWM, Polish publisher
- International Society for Contemporary Music
See also
- Polish composers
- Music of PolandMusic of PolandArtists from Poland, including famous composers like Chopin or Lutosławski and traditional, regionalized folk musicians, create a lively and diverse music scene, which even recognizes its own music genres, such as poezja śpiewana.- Beginning :...
- List of Poles
- List of 20th century classical composers by birth date