The music of Polish composer, performer and theorist Adrianna Kubica-Cypek has its very own evocative and personal expressiveness that balances between a delicate, withheld calmness and an insisting intensity.
She finds much of her inspiration in an extreme openness toward her surroundings and her compositions often take their point of departure in the interpenetration of the sounding, visual, olfactory and tactile details of her own deeply personal everyday impressions.
Often starting from the curiosity about a minimum of material - like a single synaesthetic sensation - Kubica-Cypek uses techniques such as controlled aleatorism and repetitiveness to extract a maximum of musical potential in her compositions. The results show the distinctly personal timbral and structural style of a composer who aims to rediscover what it means to write for every single new piece of music that she engages to compose.
Adrianna Kubica-Cypek’s music has been premiered by ensembles such as The Danish National Symphony Orchestra, The Danish National Vocal Ensemble, Ligeti String Quartet, The New Music Orchestra, Hungarian Radio Orchestra, SWR Vokalensemble and Capella Amsterdam. Her works have been programmed at festivals like Warsaw Autumn, Copenhagen Opera Festival, Winter Jazz in Copenhagen and Silesian Days of Contemporary Music and she has received commissions from ensembles such as ÆTLA, DR Vokalensemblet, New Music Orchestra and soloists Tanel Eiko-Novikov and Flemming Viðar Valmundsson.
Adrianna Kubica-Cypek received her formal education in composition, orchestration and theory from The Karol Szymanowski Music Academy in Katowice (PL), Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse in Lyon (FR) and The Royal Danish Music Academy in Copenhagen. She lives in Denmark and teaches instrumentation and contemporary composition privately and at Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen.
