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Jan Radzynski Mr. Radzynski's new work, Serenade for Strings, was commissioned for the 2001-2002 season, and performed on September 9, 2000 at the Whitaker Center (Harrisburg, PA) and on September 13, 2000 at Merkin Hall (New York City). 
Jan Radzynski left his native Poland in 1969. He studied composition in Israel with Schidlowski at the Tel Aviv University Academy of Music, and in the United Stated with Krzysztof Penderecki and Jacob Druckman at Yale University, where he received his doctorate in 1984. He is presently Professor of Composition at Ohio State University in Columbus. Radzynski's awards include Distinguished Scholar Award, Ohio State University (1996), Creative Work and Research Grant form the Rothschild Foundation (1995), Residency in Mishkenot Sha'ananim, Jerusalem (1995), Ohio State University Faculty Seed Grant (1994). Individual Artists Grant from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts (1992), ASCAP Standard Awards (1989-97), the Frederick W. Hilles Publication Grant (1990), Mellon Fellowship (1985), Yale University Griswold Research Grants (1984, 1987-93), and the Summer Residency at the Foundation Artist's House, Boswil, Switzerland (1983). In 1983 Radzynski's Kaddish was recorded by the Jerusalem Symphony received a special commendation at the International Rostrum of Composers in Paris. The compositions of Jan Radzynski have been performed by the Cleveland Orchestra, Columbus Symphony, Cracow Philharmonic, Jerusalem Symphony, Radio Orchestra (Cologne), Mexico National Orchestra, Saarbücken Radio Orchestra, Israel Chamber Orchestra, New Haven Symphony, and Israel Sinfonietta, among others. His compositions are recorded on CRI and Channel Classic labels. Radzynski's recent commissions include the String Trio commissioned by the City of Aachen premiered there in May 1995 by Trio Arco. His Shirat Ma'ayan for mezzo soprano, tenor, and orchestra, commissioned by the Rothschild Foundation and the Haifa Symphony was premiered in Israel in June 1997. His new composition for violin and piano, Personal Verses, was premiered in April 1999 in New York's 92nd Street Y. Notes to Serenade for StringsSerenade for Strings comprises four movements: Preludio, Minuetto - Trio a La Musette - Minuetto, Sarabanda, and Tarantella. Each individual movement and the piece as a whole reflect the composer's love of music of the old masters. Not only was their compositional technique extremely sophisticated, but through their art they were able to touch directly their listeners' emotions. Serenade for Strings, however, does not pay tribute only to the past. In every sense this music belongs to the present, here and now. The musical vocabulary integrates contemporary techniques with stylistic elements from the past, thus the music rejects easy labeling, for it is both timely and timeless. Although our modern culture seems bent increasingly on fragmentation, randomness and background noise, and since our listening habits have become over time less intentional and less informed, the pendulum of history must swing back, eventually, so that music once again will occupy the center stage of human expression as an art both powerful and sublime. Because Serenade for Strings was composed specially for Concertante, the score requires musical and technical mastery of the highest order, qualities that reflect this ensemble's ability for introspection and youthful exuberance. -- Jan Radzynski |
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