Eco per flauti for 2 solo flutes (1980)
Composer’s note
Eco per flauti is part of a cycle of miniatures written for friends, composed in one go, intuitively. It was written for talented young flautists with whom I shared student ties – Wanda Balcar and the unforgettable Liliana Kordecka.
The piece is a sonic play on time and space. There is also a version for a single flute with delay, arranged for Grzegorz Olkiewicz. The premiere of Eco per flauti took place in Warsaw on 4 June 1980. Since then, Eco in both versions has continued to travel far and wide thanks to successive performers. It is a great honour for the piece to have been included in the repertoire of the outstanding Polish flautists Agata Kielar-Długosz and Łukasz Długosz.
— Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil
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Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil
Born in 1947, she is from Wrocław. She began her studies in composition under the supervision of Prof. Stefan B. Poradowski, and graduated from the class of Prof. Tadeusz Natanson at the State Higher School of Music (1971), where she subsequently took up a post. In 1978, as a French government scholarship holder, she attended lectures by Olivier Messiaen (Conservatoire) and Pierre Boulez (IRCAM) in Paris, as well as a seminar led by Iannis Xenakis in Aix-en-Provence. She was also an intern at the Studio for Experimental Music in Marseille.
