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Collegium musicum
Universität zu Köln
50923 Köln
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Michael Ostrzyga
Albert Einstein
Upcoming projects
Mode Records, New York released Friedrich Jaecker: paradis, available now on CD and streaming services. Program includes 33 minute long work „Harry’s Dream“ for 33 glasses and voices, performed by University of Cologne Chamber Choir under my direction.
My completion of Mozart’s to be released on CD by Coviello Classics due 2020, performed by ChorWerk Ruhr, Concerto Köln, soloists Gabriela Scherer (Soprano), Anke Vondung (Alto), Tilman Lichdi (Tenor) and Tobias Berndt (Bass) conducted by Florian Helgath.
Also, music will be published by Bärenreiter in 2020.
Arrangements of christmas songs „Still, still, still“ and „Kling Glöckchen“ for the MDR children’s choir with members of the MDR Symphony Orchestra to be published on CD in autumn 2019.
MDR-Rundfunkchor will perform my Saturn on November 15th in Peterskirche Leipzig as part of their Nachtgesang concert series. Howard Arman, conductor.
I am invited to the 12th World Symposion on Choral Music 2020 in Auckland, New Zealand to composer a new multi-movement a cappella work.
Commissions
New work for chorus a cappella and overtone soloist Anna Maria Hefele commissioned by Kammerchor Stuttgart.
All Winter long for male voice choir (TTBB) and Saxophone for the Sonux Ensemble conducted by Hans-Joachim Lustig, to be premiered on 2019.
Mariposa, eventually a three-movement-work for chorus a cappella with texts by Homero Aridjis for chamber choir Consonoconducted by Harald Jers, to be premiered in 2019.
New work for brass quintet commissioned by Navus Brass for 2020/2021 season.
New work for orchestra, commissioned by das junge orchester NRW conducted by Ingo Ernst Reihl, for 2020/2021 season.
New work for two choirs celebrating Beethoven’s 250th birthday commissioned by DialogFelder e.V. for Voci di Fuoco and University Choir at University at Economics Katowice.
Primero sueño (“First Dream”) for soloists, chorus and large orchestra. Full-length setting of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz‘ poem combined with fragments of her letters. Commissioned by the Harvard Choruses and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project for 2021/2022 season.