Background

Olga Hans was born in Pabianice

Pabianice

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 and studied at the Academy of Music in Lodz

Lódz

Łódź is the third-largest city in Poland. Located in the central part of the country, it had a population of 742,387 in December 2009. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is approximately south-west of Warsaw...

 receiving diplomas with distinction in 1995 and 1997. She studied music theory with Francis Wesolowski and composition with George Bauer. After graduating, she took a position as assistant professor at the Faculty of Composition, Music Theory, Rhythm and Art Education at the Music Academy in Lodz.

Hans is a prizewinner in several composition competitions. In 1997 she won third prize for Fantasy for solo guitar (1994) at the Third National Composition Competition for Classical Guitar in Tychy

Tychy

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. In 2004 she won the International Young Composers' Competition Musica Sacra in Czestochowa

Czestochowa

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 and in 2004 the Fifth Ladislav Kubik International Prize in Composition. Her compositions have been performed at music festivals in Poland

Poland

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, Holland, Spain

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 and Great Britain

Great Britain

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. She is a member of the Polish Composers’ Union.

Selected works

• Preludium for piano (1992)
• Koniugacja for mezzo-soprano and piano (1992); words by Halina Poświatowska
  Halina Poswiatowska
  Halina Poświatowska - Polish poet and writer, one of the most important figures in modern Polish literature....
  
  
• Elegia (Elegy) for cello and piano (1993)
• Dwie miniatury (2 Miniatures) for string trio (1993)
• Barwna droga for percussion ensemble (1994)
• Dialogi (Dialogues) for 2 violas (1994)
• Improwizacja (Improvisation) for solo flute (1994)
• Fantazja (Fantasy) for solo guitar (1994)
• Trio na instrumenty stroikowe (Trio for Reed Instruments) (1995)
• Wersy (Verses) for string quartet (1996)
• Da suonare a tre for viola, cello and piano (1996)
• Concertino da camera for violin, cello and string orchestra (1996)
• Cantus, Chorale Fantasy for symphony orchestra (1997)
• Concerto for violin and orchestra (1997)
• Dialogi 2 (Dialogues 2) for viola and cello (1997)
• Capriccio for violin and piano (1998)
• String Quartet No. 2 (1998)
• Divertimento for string orchestra (1998)
• Sonata in modo antico for brass quintet (1999)
• Lullaby for brass quintet (1999)
• Pieśni słoneczne (Songs of the Sun) for cello ensemble (1999)
• Ragtime for brass quintet (2000)
• Intermezzo, Adagio for string quartet (2000)
• Epigraf (Epigraph) for alto flute solo (2000)
• Psalm (wg Cypriana Bazylika) (Psalm according to the Basilica of St. Cyprian) for mixed choir (2000)
• Trzy psalmy staropolskie (3 Old Polish Psalms) for mixed choir a cappella (2000, 2005)
• Da suonare a tre for violin, cello and piano (2001)
• Sonores for flute, cello and guitar (2001)
• Elegia (Elegy) for violin and orchestra (2001)
• Litaniae de Beatae Mariae Virginis for mezzo-soprano and organ (2002)
• Lullaby for M. for piano quintet (2002)
• Dwie melodie (2 Melodies) for violin and piano (2003)
• String Quartet No. 3 (2003)
• Litania (Litany) for mixed chorus a cappella (2003)
• Sequentia dla Prof. F. Wesołowskiego w dniu 90. rocznicy urodzin (Sequentia for Professor F. Wesołowski on His 90th Birthday) for strings and organ (2004)
• Sonata for solo cello (2004)
• Locus solus for cello octet (2004)
• Tęcza (Rainbow) for children's chorus (2004)
• Musica anniversaria for 4 trumpets, 3 trombones and tuba (2004)
• Thyrsos for percussion, 3 trumpets, 2 horns and 2 trombones (2004)
• String Quartet No. 4 (2004)
• Miniatura (Miniatures) for cello and piano (2006)

External links

• Olga Hans Facebook page