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Principal compositions

• 2 Mazurkas for piano (1958)
• Toccata for piano (1960)
• Sfere for chamber orchestra (1961)
• Sonata for piano (1961)
• Lirical Preludes for soprano and piano, to words by Konstanty I. Galczynski (1962)
• Visions for solo cello (1962)
• Fragmenti for piano (1962)
• Aria for soprano and 7 instruments (1963)
• Acclamations for 4 choirs, 6 instrumental groups and organ, to Byzantine texts (1964)
• Dram for orchestra (1966)
• Epitaphium for female choir and instrumental ensemble (1968)
• Lullaby for mixed choir a cappella (1970)
• Limits for orchestra (1971)
• Selection for 5 for chamber ensemble (1972)
• Images I for any solo voice (1973)
• Comes for chamber ensemble (1974)
• Psalmus for organ (1975)
• Norwidiana 75 for female voice and chamber ensemble (1975)
• Images II for any solo string instrument (1975)
• Variant for instrumental ensemble (1976)
• Speranza for flute and piano (1976)
• Vox for any solo brass instrument (1977)
• Dialoghi for 2 pianos (1977)
• Mont for orchestra (1978)
• Spectrafor solo percussion (1980)
• Dynamics for 6 percussionists (1981)
• Mater mea for mixed choir a cappella, to words by Krzysztof K. Baczynski (1982)
• Apasionante for 2 instruments (string and brass) (1983)
• Concerto for any solo string instrument and orchestra (1985/86)
• Pax in terra I for female voice, 4 guitar groups and tubular bells (1987)
• Pax in terra II for female voice, percussion and organ (1988)
• Prologuefor trumpet and organ (1990)
• Adoramus for mixed choir a cappella (1991)
• Ritornel for orchestra (1992)
• Hosanna for mixed choir and 4 instruments (1993)
• Regina caeli for mixed choir a cappella (1995)
• Kassandra for female voice, mixed choir and orchestra (1996/97)
• De profundis for mixed choir and orchestra (1998)

Marian BORKOWSKI was born in 1934 in Pabianice (Poland). Composer, musicologist, pianist, teacher. He studied composition with Kazimierz Sikorski and piano with Jan Ekier and Natalia Hornowska at the Academy of Music in Warsaw (1959 -1965; Master of Arts in 1965). At the same time studied musicology at Warsaw University under Jozef M.Chominski (Master of Musicology in 1966). In the years 1966 -1968, as a French Government grantee, he continued postgraduate studies in composition with Nadia Boulanger and Olivier Messiaen at Paris Conservatory and in musicology under Jacques Chailley and Barry S.Brook at Paris University. Simultaneously, he studied philosophy with Jean Hyppolite and Jules Vuillemin at the Sorbonne and the College de France. Moreover, he took part in the International Courses of New Music in Darmstadt (1972, 1974) and in the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena (1973, 1975 Diploma di Merito), where he worked with Gyorgy Ligeti, Iannis Xenakis, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Franco Donatoni. Since 1968 he has been teaching composition and orchestration at the Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw: lecturer (1968 -1971), assistant professor (1971-1976), associate professor (1976 -1989), full professor (since 1989); deputy dean of the Faculty of Composition, Conducting and Music Theory (1975 -1978), vice-president of the Academy (1978 -1981, 1987-1990), head of the Chair of Music Theory (from 1993), dean of the Faculty of Composition, Conducting and Music Theory (from 1996), organizer and head of the Postgraduate Studies in Music Theory (from 1998). Since 1989 he has also held visiting professorship in composition and guest artist at Concordia University and the University of Montreal in Canada; at the National Conservatory of Music in Boulogne-Billancourt (Paris); at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana (Siena) in Italy; at the University of Kansas (Lawrence), the University of Southern California (Los Angeles), San Francisco State University, Eastman School of Music (Rochester), Georgia State University (Atlanta), Tulane University of Louisiana (New Orleans), the University of North Texas (Denton), Bowling Green State University, Shenandoah University (Winchester), the University of Charlston, Rice University (Houston), the University of Miami, the William Paterson University of New Jersey (Wayne), the Baldwin Wallace Conservatory (Berea, Ohio) and the Southwest Missouri State University (Springfield) in the U.S.A.; at Hanyang University (Seoul), Seoul Conservatory of Music, and the Keimyung University (Taegu) in Korea. Among his pupils there are many outstanding Polish composers of young and middle generation (a.o.: Marcin Blazewicz, Renata Kunkel, Maria Pokrzywinska, Alicja Gronau-Osinska, Jerzy Kornowicz, Marcin Wierzbicki, Dorota Dywanska, Pawel Lukaszewski, Maciej Zoltowski, Tadeusz Trojanowski, Maciej Zielinski, Aleksander Kosciow, Emilian Madey), as well as postgraduate foreign students in composition, a.o.: Fanny Tran (Belgium), Choi Chun-Hee (Korea), Daniel Luzko (Paraguay), Lee Chong-Man (Korea), Joe Cutler (Great Britain), Hong Jin-Pyo (Korea). From 1971 to 1977 he was a deputy chairman of the Warsaw Branch of the Polish Composers Union. Since 1985 founder and artistic director of the Festival Laboratory of Contemporary Music and a chairman of Academic Council of the Polish Institute of Music. From 1995 president of the Laboratory of Contemporary Music Association

His compositions have been presented at chamber and symphonic music concerts in 25 European countries as well as in Australia, Bolivia, Canada, Columbia, Cuba, Iran, Jamaica, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, and U.S.A. His pieces were also performed at many music festivals: St. Petersburg, Darmstadt, Aix-en-Provence, Witten, Paris, Los Angeles, Utrecht, Mexico-City, Munich, Salzburg, Lisbon, Geneva, Lvov, Pusan, Viitasaari, Taegu, Metz, Warsaw, Madrid, Berlin, Seoul, a. o. Many of his compositions were recorded for the radio and television (in more than 20 countries) by such record companies as: Muza, Veriton, Olympia, ProViva Intersound, Polonia Records, Sound-Pol, Dux, MTJ, Acte Prealable.

Appeared in piano recitals in Poland, France, Italy, Canada, U.S.A., Austria, Russia. Jury member of international competitions in composition in Poland and abroad, e.g. in Belgrade, Florence, Paris, Esztergom, New Orleans. He is author of several scholarly works on contemporary music. Marian Borkowski is a prize winner of the Young Composers Competition in Warsaw (1966), the International Composers Competition B. Viotti in Vercelli (1969), the K. Szymanowski Competition for Composers in Warsaw (1974), the International New Music Composers Competition in New York (1990), and the Award of the Minister of Culture and Art (1976, 1980, 1982). Holder of Silver Cross of Merit of the Republic of Poland (1977), Silver Medal Premio Vittorio Gui (Italy, 1979), Medal of the Chopin Academy of Music (1981), Knights Cross of Order Polonia Restituta (1984).