Untitled - Quasi Una Fantasia

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PROPOSAL OF THE
QUA SI UN A FA N TA SIA
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QUA SI UN A FA N TA SIA
The Quasi Una Fantasia ensemble consists of two
talented musicians - Bożena Boba - Dyga (voice)
and Maciej Zimka (accordion). Their main areas
of interest are poetic song and modern music. Quasi
Una Fantasia creates original music to the texts of
Polish poets. They often reach for various types of
lyric verse – the varied stylistics of the poetry inspires multicoloured music with which many a type of
listener can identify.
The artists express themselves through recitation,
melodeclamation, as well as purely instrumental
music performed by solo accordion and voice.
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[1] Original sound theatre performance Alterego – premiere, Bożena Boba-Dyga:
[6] A concert by Quasi Una Fantasia (Bożena Boba-Dyga: voice, Maciej Zimka: accordion).
voice, Maciej Zimka: accordion
[7] Arrangements and recording of original compositions set to the threnodies by Marzena
[2] A concert by Quasi Una Fantasia duo. Bożena Boba-Dyga: voice,
Dąbrowa-Szatko as a part of presentation of the new volume of poetry by Marzena
Maciej Zimka: accordion
Dąbrowa-Szatko featuring the guest appearance of Olga Szwajgier’s Voice Laboratory choir
[3] A concert by Quasi Una Fantasia duo. Bożena Boba-Dyga: voice,
and Mandragora musical group.
Maciej Zimka: accordion
[8] A vernissage of a retrospective exhibition on the occasion of 20th anniversary of Bożena
[4] A concert by Quasi Una Fantasia duo. Bożena Boba-Dyga: voice, Maciej Zimka:
Boba-Dyga’s artistic activity featuring: world premiere of a work entitled “Desiderium” (Boże-
accordion (during the 99th Art Salon).
na Boba-Dyga: voice, Sabina Cebula: piano, Jacek Kopiec: accordion, Aleksandra Lelek:
[5] Quasi Una Fantasia – a recital of Jewish songs and graphic music by the Cracow-based
cello, Miłosz Mączyński: guitar, Barbara Mglej: violin, Wiesław Ochwat : accordion, Michał
duo: Bożena Boba-Dyga: voice, Maciej Zimka: accordion – during the presentation of
Roemer: piano, Tomasz Skotnicki: viola, Maciej Zimka: accordion), a concert of songs of the
a new issue of “Rita Baum”, a magazine featuring articles on the Yiddish culture.
Quasi Una Fantasia duo with the guest appearance of the singer Jaga Wrońska.
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also performs with more musicians
accordions)
in the project entitled Armonia Lyrica.
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CRACOW ACCORDION FESTIVAL
LOCH CAMELOT
CRACOW NIGHTS
CRACOVIA SACRA FESTIVAL
MAŁOPOLSKA OF
MANY CULTURES FESTIVAL
III SUMMER CONCERTS
IN PODGÓRZE
CHURCH OF THE IMMACULATE HEART OF
HOLIEST VIRGIN MARY (FELICIAN SISTERS)
REGIONAL CULTURAL CENTRE
OF THE CARP VALLEY
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[1] A programme combining liter-
[2] A concert for poems as a part of the
[3] As a part of the cycle entitled Sum-
[4] A concert by Armonia Lyrica quartet
ature and music performed by the
project entitled Małopolska of Many
mer Concerts in Podgórze – a concert by
(Bożena Boba-Dyga: voice, Grzegorz
Armonia Lyrica ensemble as a part of
Cultures Festival - Armonia Lyrica en-
Armonia Lyrica, consisting of Bożena
Miszczyszyn: accordion, Grzegorz Palus:
the project Cracow Nights – Cracovia
semble: Bożena Boba-Dyga: voice,
Boba-Dyga: voice, recitation and Sirius
accordion, Maciej Zimka: accordion) as
Sacra Festival. Bożena Boba-Dyga:
Grzegorz Miszczyszyn:
accordion trio - Grzegorz Miszczyszyn,
a part of the Cracow Accordion Festival.
voice, Grzegorz Miszczyszyn: accor-
Grzegorz Palus: accordion, Maciej
dion, Grzegorz Palus: accordion, Ma-
Zimka: accordion.
ciej Zimka: accordion.
accordion,
Grzegorz Palus and Maciej Zimka.
The music of Quasi Una Fantasia cannot be classified easily.
The duo performs literary song and modern music striving
to discover and develop the unique marriage of the voice and
the accordion, not often employed in music. As far as the literary song goes, the duo, constantly in search of new musical
qualities is inspired by various music genres including the
ballad, classical, improvised, klezmer, French, Fado, Trova or
jazz music.
The music the ensemble performs could be described as impressionist and illustrative.
It follows the text and employs all possible means to convey
its meaning and the mood inherent to it, at the same time
concentrating on the sound qualities which makes it possible
to call it colour music.
In the realm of modern music Quasi Una Fantasia reaches
for paratheatrical means incorporating into their repertoire
graphic scores, improvised music as well as compositions
both of their own and of modern composers. The artists
also collaborate with the other instrumentalists, a choir and
acrobats. The mutual permeation and collaboration of the
two individual creative personalities creates unique quality
reaching beyond the stereotype singer/accompanist.
T HE
OFFERED
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A CONCERT FOR POEMS
DE PROFUNDIS
SACRÉ-COEUR
songs and
melodeclamation
covering a wide range
of topics accompanied
by music of varied
genres including
– among others –
ballad, jazz, blues,
French chanson,
theatrical song.
songs and
melodeclamation about
passing of time as well as
music works by (among
others) V. Trojan and S.
Gubaidulina performed
on solo accordion.
a concert of
sacred songs and
instrumental
music of J.S.Bach
and W.A.Mozart
performed on solo
accordion.
M I N U T E S
THE SONGS OF NOSTALGIA
RAISINS AND ALMONDS
If performance takes place
in a multimedia space
there’s the possibility of
videoart projection.
songs composed to the
poems about the Jews
and the Jewish culture,
Jewish songs and the
graphic scores of the
Jewish artists
lyrical ballads about
love, longing, human
condition – life and
death.
ARMONIA LYRICA
a programme
performed by the
extended ensemble
– an accordion trio
and a voice
BOŻENA
BOBA-DYG A
Poet, singer, composer, performer of
improvised modern music,
visual
artist, art conservator, designer. One
of the most original contemporary
Polish artists. A polysensory artist
combining visual arts, music, litera-
Scholarship holder of the European
Tempus Programm in Berlin, Germany and Deutsche Akademische
Austausch Dienst Berlin/Erlangen,
Germany. Member of the Polish Writers Association and the Polish Visual
emy of London during the Kraków
Summer Music Academy masterclasses. She is fascinated with the
eclecticism in music and combines
elements of modern music, classical
bel canto singing, ethnic music (es-
ture and theatre. An extraordinarily
strong artistic personality believing
in the unity of arts, freely employing multidimensional means of expression in keeping with her creative
needs. A graduate of the Cracow
Visual Arts Academy, the Faculty of
Conservation and Restoration of Art
and the academic humanities class
specialising in Latin and Greek at
the oldest Polish 1st B. Nowodwor-
Artists Association, member of the
conservation section board and secretary of the Polish Conservators Board.
pecially Jewish music), French music
and lyrical ballad. She composes and
performs music and sets it to the poetry of poets of various generations
including Ewa Chruściel, Krystyna
Lenkowska, Eryk Ostrowski, Elżbieta Zechenter- Spławińska, Józef
Baran, Stanisław Stabro, Witold
Zechenter, Bogusław Żurakowski as
well as of her own.
ski High School in Kraków.
She commenced her musical education at the age of seven in the class
of piano and percussion. She studied
singing with Sonia Lehnert at the
Music School in Kraków and later,
with – among others – the famous
Polish singer Olga Szwajgier in her
Voice Laboratory and Alison Pearce,
the lecturer of the Royal Music Acad-
She participated in numerous festivals including the Student Song Fes-
tival in Kraków, Cracovia Sacra Festival, Kraków Accordion Festival, Przemyśl Poetry Autumn, Krynica Literature Autumn, Małopolska of Many Cultures Festival. She
also recorded for the Polish Radio, Radio Alfa and Radio Chicago. She presented her poetry and music as a part of various cyclical events such as Kraków Night of Poetry
and Music, Carols for the Homeless, Poetry All Saints’, The Kraków Bread of Hope, The Night of the Poets at the Royal Castle in Niepołomice, The Convention of Poets
in Pawłowice, The Port of Poetry in Chorzów, Krynica Autumn of Poetry and Przemyśl Autumn of Poetry.
She performed in various venues including The KTO Theatre, Radio Kraków, Rotunda, Piwnica pod Baranami, Pod Jaszczurami Club, Jazz Acoustic Piec Art Club,
Loch Camelot, The Czecz Manor in Kraków, Przemyśl Culture and Science Centre “The Castle”, in the USA – New York, Boston, New London, Princeton, Trenton, in
Germany – Berlin, in Italy – Torino and in Ukraine – Vinnitsa. In 2008 an album entitled “A Concert For Poems” was published by the paganini publishing house under
the auspices of Polish Radio and Television in Kraków (Bożena Boba-Dyga: voice and compositions, Piotr Czerny: piano, Kinga Bocheńska-Szostak: violin, Marek Krupa:saxophone, Józef Michalik: double-bass, Sławek Berny: percussion instruments, Grzegorz Palus: accordion).
The reviews were extremely positive – let us cite one by the poet Adam Ziemianin:
I am so glad Bożena Boba - Dyga is able to combine words and music so accurately. The effects of such a marriage are so affectionate.
And it is important she sings with all her heart and uses good poetry.
Utterly fascinated by the sound of the accordion, she cannot imagine her musical future without it. In 2009/2010 she recorded her second album entitled “AccordiON i
Ona” (in Polish: “On” = ”he “ ,“Ona” = ” She”) where she performed with the accordion player. Jacek Sojan said about this recording:
…It is a musical journey of two soloists getting along with each other perfectly, wandering together through the poetry, the accordion interweaving its colourful aliquots into the dramatic
images created through the theatrical melodeclamation or painted with the melancholy of the incantation. You don’t listen to it, you experience it. Such is the essence of the art – to meet,
feeling the same emotion, to become, by the law of metanoia, a different, a better human being.
In 2010 she co-founded the Quasi Una Fantasia ensemble in which she performs with the accordionist Maciej Zimka.
She published two volumes of poetry: The hiding place of Sylvia von Sielberstein (1st publication in 2003, 2nd publication in 2006 in the Kraków Poets Confraternity
Publishing House) and The Drop published in 2007 by the Signo Publishing House. Two selections of her poetry have been published overseas: Written with the rain
(2008) published in Lviv in a bilingual Polish-Ukrainian version by the Novyi Lviv Publishing House and Spokój Śniegu/ Calmness of the snow/ Gelassenheit des schnees/ Calme de neige (2009), addressed to the global village, published in four languages by the Br@ndbook Publishing House in Polish and also translated into English,
French and German.
She was awarded 2nd prize in the International Literary Contest „The adventure
comes when it wants to” and the 1st prize in a Poetry Tournament. Her works were
also published in the literary arts magazines, including “Odra”, Topos”, “Republic of Culture”, “The Forum of Free Thought”, “Fragile”, “The Cultural Gazette”,
“Renovations and The Monuments of Culture” as well as in “The Polish Daily
News”, “Kraków Gazette”, “Polish Daily News” in Chicago, USA, “The New Daily
News” in NYC and in the Ukrainian “The Stanislavsk Newspaper”, “The Vinnitsk
Newspaper” and “The Western Courier”. Since 2004 she has been included in the
modern Polish poetry almanacks, her poetry can also be found in the internet, for
example at the website of the Polish Writers Association – the Kraków branch, The
Port of Poetry, The Wardrobe and many more. Among the ones who wrote about
her works one may find Józef Baran, Elżbieta Zechenter-Spławińska, prof. Wojciech
Ligęza, prof. Stanisław Stabro, Jacek Lubart-Krzysica, prof. Ignacy Stanisław Fiut,
Eryk Ostrowski, Janusz M. Paluch, Marek Czuku, Marek Wawrzyński, Wojciech
Węcław, Marek Pieńkowski OP, Agnieszka Żuchowska-Arent, Marzena Niezgoda,
Łukasz Mańczyk and many others.
In the area of visual arts she creates visual arts and literature assemblages, which
have been presented many times in Poland and the USA and have also been published in the form of postcards. Bożena Bob-Dyga is also professional art renovator, specialising in the area of architecture. She conducted conservation works all
over Poland, renovating over 300 objects including elevations of the historic tenement houses Hetmańska, Amodejowska, Czynciela, Pod Jaszczurką, Pod Blachą,
Pod Słońcem in the Main Square area in Kraków, elevations of the Palace and
Little Castle in Radziejowice near Warsaw, the interiors of the Stary Theatre in
Kraków, The Polish Theatre in Bielsko-Biała, and the Adam Mickiewicz Theatre
in Częstochowa, polychromies at the cathedral in Bielsko-Biała, at the Castle of
the Presidents of Republic of Poland in Wisła, polychromies at the Salesian Brothers Church in Przemyśl and many others. For her work as an art renovator she was
awarded many prizes including Modernisation of The Year (four times) and the
Foundation of Piotrkowska Street Prize.
In 2010 Bozena Boba - Dyga founded the Art Forum Foundation the statute of
which assumes promotion of syncretism in art in the spirit of the Wagnerian idea
of Gesamtkunstwerk. She organised the inauguration of the Kraków Accordion
Festival and the Graphic Score Workshops for the students of Kraków art acade-
mies, crowned with three exhibitions and concerts. She also introduced the concert cycle entitled Podgórze Accordion Fridays.
She lives and works in Kraków. The information concerning the artist can be found in the internet at the following websites:
http://www.artforum.net.pl/dzialalnosc_artystyczna
http://sppkrakow.pl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=305%3Abozena-boba-dyga&catid=23&Itemid=30
http://www.zpap.krakow.pl/web/documents/boba_96_dyga_bobfena__.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcZcYgAOASo&feature=plcp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NNzP88fnIM&feature=plcp
MACIE J
ZIMK A
Accordionist, composer, arranger,
participating in artistic activities
combining music, visual arts and
theatre. He’s a graduate of the 1st
degree studies at the Academy of
Music in Kraków. Presently, he’s a
titions, both Polish and international ones. Among others he won
1st prize of the Gorlice Accordion
Confrontations (as a part of the
Cord AniMa duo consisting of
Anna Trólka – violin and Maciej
tion by Andrzej Krzanowski during
the Andrzej Krzanowski Polish Accordion Competition in Czechowice-Dziedzice and Bielsko-Biała as
a part of the 21st Autumn Music
Festival Alkagran, 3rd prize of the
student of the 2nd degree studies
in the accordion class of Associate
Professor Janusz Pater. The artist is especially interested in the
works of composers of the 20th
and 21st centuries, including R.
Haubenstock-Ramati, V. Holmboe, A. Nordheim, S.Gubajdulina, Z.Bargielski, T.Hosokawa, A.
Krzanowski, C. Meijering).
Zimka – accordion), 1st prize at the
International Accordion Competition in Vilnius (as a part of the Cord
AniMa duo), 1st prize at the International Accordion Music Competition in Mława,
Polish Accordion Classes Auditions in Gdańsk, 5th prize at the
International Accordion Festival in
Castelfidardo (Italy).
Maciej Zimka is a prize-winner at
numerous instrumental compe-
1st prize at the International Accordion Music Festival in Przemyśl,
3rd prize at the International Accordion Festival in Klingenthal,
3rd prize and the special prize for
the best performance of a composi-
Maciej Zimka is an active musician
performing classical and modern
music, jazz and poetic song concerts both in Poland and overseas,
both on his own and as a part of
chamber music ensembles. He
performed during numerous Polish and foreign festivals, including
“Sound 12” in Newcastle upon Tyne (England), “Małopolska of Many Cultures Festival” in Zator, International Accordion Festival in Sanok, Kraków Accordion Festival,
Kraków Composers’ Music Days, Kraków Nights Festival: Cracovia Sacra Night and The Kraków Poetry Night. Maciej Zimka also toured the USA (Chicago, Princeton,
Trenton), performed in Italy (Torino), in the Ukraine (Lviv) and in Poland (Kraków, Wrocław, Warszawa, Jaworzno, Krosno, Sanok).
Maciej Zimka is also an active composer. He composes works for the accordion, other instruments and chamber music ensembles. Among his works one may find two
string quartets, a sonata for violin and piano, a sonata for violin and accordion, “Songs of the Night” for a mezzo-soprano and piano set to the poetry of Eryk Ostrowski, an
accordion sonata, Chanson I for accordion and Chanson II for two guitars. The composer’s works were presented during the 24th edition of Kraków Composers’ Music
Days and the 22nd edition of Adam Didur Festival in Sanok. His compositions were published by the Absonic and Edition Astra Music Publishing Houses. Thanks to his
activity in the field of composition more achievements and successes appear in his curriculum vitae, including 2nd prize at the International Composition Competition
in Sanok, a distinction during the International Composition Competition in Sanok, 2nd distinction during the Adam Didur Polish Composition Competition, 3rd place
during the Adam Didur Polish Composition Competition in Sanok. Maciej Zimka has also been awarded numerous scholarships including the Ministry of Culture and
National Heritage scholarship, President of the Council of Ministers scholarship as well as Sapere Auso scholarship, several times.
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