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Iwona Kisiel

photo: private archive

Born 1972, Warsaw. Composer, arranger, a graduate of the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw (currently the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music)
in the class of composition of professor Zbigniew Rudziński and a graduate of cello in the class of professor Marian Raczak in J. Elsner music high school in Warsaw.
Among her compositions are pieces for chamber ensembles, string orchestra,
the symphonic orchestra with voice, over 28 contemporary songs for voice and piano to poems of such renowned poets as M. Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska, H.Poświatowska, J. Iwaszkiewicz, B.Leśmian, and Z. Herbert, her works were recorded and published.

Her full of emotions and the expressive musical language is characterized by a great melody and neo-romantic harmony, combined with elements of jazz and film music.
She has cooperated with excellent ensembles and performers, Wilanów Quartet, Warsaw Camerata, cond. Paweł Kos-Nowicki, Płock Symphony Orchestra, Trio Galant, Opium String Quartet (currently Polonika Quartet), among others.

Her music was performed in Poland and abroad. The world premiere of her work entitled „The Pleiades” for two flutes and organs took place in Kaliningrad Philharmonic in 2019, performed by (Agata Kielar Długosz, Łukasz Długosz – flutes, Roman Perucki – organ), and in February 2020 world premiere of the work „Once Upon the Sea ..”, graced the event “I Thee Wed … “ which took place in the European Parliament. “Once Upon the Sea..” was composed especially for the centenary of Poland’s return to the Baltic, and was performed by a trio of renowned artists Agata Kielar-Długosz, Łukasz Długosz, and Andrzej Jungiewicz.

Popular and jazz music has a special place in her musical achievements. She composed more than 60 songs to the words of such artists as Olga Bończyk (songs issued on Olga Bończyk’s „5 am in the morning” CD record), Asja Łamtiugina ( song „He betrayed me” is played in the theater show titled „Fall in love to death”), Dorota Czupkiewicz, Wojciech Darda-Ledzion, Marek Waszkiewicz, Robert Bernatowicz, Andrzej Podulka. She also composed music for children, including songs and two theatre plays with lyrics by Marek Waszkiewicz and Krystyna Królikowska-Waś.

She is a two-time beneficiary of the „Composing Commissions”, co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage as part of the „Collections” program implemented by the Institute of Music and Dance. In 2019 she received an artistic scholarship from the city of Warsaw.

She has unique absolute pitch and also a gift of chromesthesia (associating sound with colors).

www.iwonakisiel.pl