Jacek Domagała
*19 August 1947
Works by Jacek Domagała
Biography
JACEK DOMAGAŁA, polish composer, pianist and organist, born 19 August 1947 in Szczecinek. He studied composition with Witold Szalonek, piano under the direction of Olga Dąbrowska, and organ with Heinz Wunderlich. After receiving the Oscar and Vera Ritter-Stiftung scholarship in Hamburg, he participated in master classes conducted by György Ligeti. He is the winner of the Boris Blacher prize in Berlin, the George Mufat prize in Salzburg and the Ludwig van Beethoven prize in Bonn. His works include choral, vocal, instrumental, orchestral, solo and chamber music. Currently Jacek Domagała lives and works in Berlin.
About the music
In the early years of his activity as a composer, Jacek Domagała was strongly influenced by his interest in J.S. Bach and in jazz music.The second stage of Jacek Domagała's artistic development owes much to the Second Viennese School (Schönberg, Berg, Webern),which had a powerful impact on the composer's musical language and the technique that he calls"neoserialism". His last compositions have a programatic character and relate to works of painting, historical events or current topics.