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Music
Major works
Orchestral
- Epitaphios threnos for violin, viola and strings (2003) - 20’
- Missa instrumentalis for orchestra (1999) - 14’
- Rubicon for orchestra (1999 - ) (in progress) - ca. 12’
- Euphonia for string orchestra or string quartet or saxophone quartet (1997/98/2001) - 6’30"
- Monumentum (Józef Koffler in memoriam) for chamber orchestra (1996) - 9’
- Contra tempus for orchestra (1994) - 8’30"
Vocal/choral
- Ave Verum Corpus for mixed choir (SATB) (2001) - 330
- Finale for chamber choir (1995) - 8
- Motet for six vocal soloists (1988) - 7
Chamber
- Largo (Ommagio a Johann Sebastian) for violin (or flute or clarinet or soprano saxophone) & piano (2002) - ca. 5’
- The Secret Garden (Music for Agnieszka Holland) for string quartet (1999/2002) - ca. 12’30"
- Anya’s Dream for alto saxophone & piano (2001) - ca. 4’
- Voces intimae (Music for David Roxburgh) for flute, clarinet, piano and string quartet (2001) - ca. 7’30"
- ...where the night awakens... for two pianos and two percussion (2000) - ca. 12’
- Moon down (for Boudewijn Buckinx) for violin (or flute or clarinet or alto saxophone) and piano (2000) - 7’
- ove ‘l mar non ha vanto for violin and piano (1999) - 10’45"
- Kinneret for clarinet and vibraphone (1999) - 6’
- ...dans l’ombre du jardin oubli... for saxophone quartet (1998) - 15’
- Numen for violin and piano (1998) - 7’
- other versions: viola and piano, ‘cello and piano, contrabass and piano, alto or baritone saxophone and piano, clarinet or bass cl. and piano
- maze, haze, mist, daze for flute choir (1997) - 7’
- Doppelgänger (...mein Holzspiel...) for double reed ensemble (1997) - 7’
- takussunsittuq for two pianos and two percussion (1997) - 13’
- ...river to the ocean... for clarinet and string quartet (1996) - 15’
- dreamtide for clarinet, violin and marimba (1996) - 7’30’‘
- Strumienie snu (Streams of a Dream): String Quartet #1 (1995) - 14’
- ...noc bezkresna, noc bezsenna... for flute, clarinet, vibraphone, piano, violin and ‘cello (1995) - 20’
- Ground for flute, clarinet, vibraphone, piano, violin and ‘cello (1994) - 4’30"
- metaSonata for alto saxophone and piano (1994) - 7’
- Kyrie for English horn, bass clarinet, bassoon, horn and ‘cello (1993) - 6’45"
- Horngardens (Music for Norval Morrisseau) for saxophone quartet (1992/93) - 22’
- Orion (Music for Franz K.) for 1-5 saxophones or 1-5 optional woodwinds (1991) - 6’
- micro/macro (concerto for twelve strings) (1990, rev. 1995) - ca. 9’
- HAENNA for string sextet (1989) - 8’
- Ordines (Jorge Luis Borges in memoriam)
- for alto saxophone, organ and cello (1988) - 8
- OBOEnergy (MariusAZIONI) for 1-12 oboes, English horns, oboes damore, bass oboes etc. (1986) - ca. 10
- The first february the last january for 1-4 optional melodic instruments and 1-2 keyboard instruments (1983) - 10’ minimum
- Zapada zmrok (Giacinto Scelsi in memoriam) for optional melodic instruments and piano (1983) - 8’
- Melodrama II for vibraphone and alto saxophone (or flute or trumpet) (1981) - 20
Solo
- Lachrymae (in memory of September 11, 2001) for organ solo (2001) - 7’30"
- Walzer (Joseph Matthias Hauer in memoriam) for piano solo (2000) - 1’30"
- muziek voor van Zoelen (coloratura) for bass saxophone solo & electronics (1999) - ca. 10’
- ChaconnEncore for alto saxophone solo (1999) - ca. 3’
- Chiaroscuro for bass/contrabass clarinet and tape (1998) - 10’30"
- Time is a River without Banks (coloratura) for alto saxophone solo (1996) - 10’
- Mare tenebrarum (Piano Sonata #2) (1996-2000) - ca. 19’
- Horyzont zapomnienia (Piano Sonata #1) (1995) - ca. 20’
- Composizione-monoproiezione per pianoforte (1983/1995) - ca. 2’
- Due pezzi for organ (1994/95) - ca. 10’
- Coloratura for Charles/disco(n)notation for baritone saxophone solo & electronics (1992) - 12’
- Sacrae symphoniae (Christopher Lewis in memoriam) for organ (1992/2000) - ca. 20’
- aa69/coloratura for Dennis Prime for basset-horn alone (1983/93) - 12
- Ravenna for harpsichord (1985) - 640
- ænnea for guitar (1985) - 8
- Palestriniana for organ (1984) - ca. 5 minimum
- Melodrama V for piano (1983, rev. 1986) - 12
- Melodrama IV for bass clarinet (1983) - 16
- Coloratura for Dr. K. for solo bassoon (1983) - 12
- aagyn for tenor saxophone & piano (one performer) (1983 - 1987)
- Melodrama I for violin (1981) - 12
Electroacoustic
- The Dreams of Odysseus for tape (1991/92) - 63’
- Epitaph for Jerzy for tape (1991; also included in The Dreams of Odysseus) - 8’21’‘
- Is My Cat a Rock’n’Roller? for tape (1990) - 5’
Soundtracks (selected)
- Black Angels (dir. Cynthia Wells) (1996) - ca. 20’
Piotr Grella-Mozejko has lived in Canada since 1989. His pieces have been performed at major festivals in Canada, the USA, and Europe. Active in numerous areas of art, he has written dozens of articles on music and the fine arts, published in scholarly periodicals and popular magazines. In 1991, he founded the Edmonton New Music Festival and in 1994 established the Edmonton Composers’ Concert Society quarterly, The Albertan Composer. He currently resides in Edmonton, Alberta. His works are available through Conners Publications, Grace Under Press, and the Canadian Music Center.
Life
Born in Poland and based in Canada since 1989, Piotr Grella-Mozejko holds an M.Mus. in Composition degree from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, where he studied with Alfred Fisher, Henry Klumpenhouwer, and the late Christopher Lewis, as well as an M.A. degree in Social Science from the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. Earlier, he took composition courses with the distinguished Polish composer Prof. Edward Boguslawski. In 1994, Grella-Mozejko was the only Canadian selected to participate in the prestigious "June in Buffalo" Festival and Conference, where he attended lectures by and master classes with Milton Babbitt, Donald Erb, David Felder, Lukas Foss, Roger Reynolds, and Charles Wuorinen. Currently, he is enrolled in the Ph.D. program in Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta, focusing on interdisciplinary research involving music and other arts. His teachers there include such distinguished scholars as Nasrin Rahimieh, Edward Blodgett, Milan Dimic, Uri Margolin, Edward Mozejko (yes, he happens to be the composer’s father), and Paul Robberecht.
Described by the German press as demonstrating "uncompromising honesty" (Neue Zeitschrift für Musik), compared to Charles Ives, John Cage, Eric Satie or Hans-Joachim Hespos (Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung), and whose work is called "adventuresome, brilliant and fascinating" (Classical Music Magazine, Toronto), "wonderful-sounding" (The Buffalo News, Buffalo, USA), "intriguing and powerfully evocative" (The Edmonton Journal), or "sensational... model for all composers working in the contemporary field" (Ruch Muzyczny, Warsaw, Poland), Grella-Mozejko has written on commissions supported by, among others, The Alberta Foundation for the Arts, The Canada Council, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canadian Polish Congress, Ensemble MW2, International Conversatorium of Organ Music, Polish Ministry of Culture and Art, Polish Radio and, most recently, The Flanders Festival and the Canadian Music Centre.
In 1997, he won the Alberta Motion Picture Industries Association (AMPIA) Award in Musical Score/Composer category (Black Angels by Cynthia Wells). Other prizes and awards include the All-Polish Composers’ Competition in Lódz, Poland (1985, aennea for guitar solo); the All-Polish Composers’ Competition in Kraków, Poland (1988, Motet for six vocal soloists), and The Pierre Boulez Canadian Composers Competition in Halifax, Nova Scotia (1991, micro/macro - for strings named by Pierre Boulez in the third place). Grella-Mozejko is also recipient of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship (2000-2002) as well as the University of Alberta Beryl Barns Award, Walter H Johns Fellowship, Andrew Stewart Memorial Graduate Prize, and Marie Louise Imrie Graduate Award.
Grella-Mozejko’s music has been regularly heard in such centres as Antwerp, Basel, Cracow, Los Angeles, Montréal, New York, Toronto and Warsaw, and has been commissioned, played and recorded by a host of Canadian and international ensembles and soloists such as the Alberta Baroque Ensemble, Capella Cracoviensis, Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Edmonton Chamber Orchestra, Edmonton and Saskatoon Youth Orchestras, International Symphony, Laurier Chamber Orchestra, Polish Radio Orchestra, Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra, Wroc?aw Philharmonic Orchestra, Ara Ensemble, Ensemble MW2, The Penderecki, Bozzini and Reiner String Quartets, Onyx Wind Quintet, The Hammerhead Consort, St. Crispin’s Chamber Ensemble, Duo Dilemme, EC21 Sextet, Clarion Ensemble, the University of Alberta Saxophone Quartet, violinists Elena Denisova and Jerzy Kapłanek, pianists Barbara Pritchard, Janet Scott-Hoyt, Kathleen Supové, Gabriela Szendzielorz, Roger Admiral, Corey Hamm, Andrzej Dutkiewicz, John Kameel Farah, Alexei Kornienko, Jeremy Parker, flautist Isabelle Schnöller, clarinettists Katarzyna Marczak, Jean-Guy Boisvert and Don Ross, saxophonists Jennifer Wardle, Laurent Estoppey, Charles Stolte and Andreas van Zoelen, organists Gertrude Olford, Carson P. Cooman, Stillman Matheson, Stanislaw Moryto, Wieslaw Rentowski, and many others.
His works have appeared on Acte Préalable, Arktos, Clef Records, Eclectra and Zeitklang labels, have been broadcast and published in Canada, USA and Europe, and performed at numerous festivals and concert series including CMC at 35 (A National Festival of Canadian Music Creation), Conversatorium, Dancing on the Edge (Vancouver), Edmonton New Music Festival, 25th Anniversary of Ensemble MW2, Fascinating Music Festival, Fringe (Edmonton), I Gdansk Encounters of Young Composers, X International Evenings of Organ and Chamber Music, III International Festival of Organ Music (Warsaw, Poland), 1st International Organ Academy "Pipeworks" (Edmonton), June in Buffalo, Laboratorium, Multi-Art Festival (Seoul), Musica Polonica Nova, NUMUFEST (Toronto,Ontario), New Music Alberta, Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound, Pacific Market, Poznan Music Spring, rESOund Festival, Saskatoon New Music Festival, Silesian Tribune of Composers, Write & Play (Kraków) and others.
Voting Member of the Canadian Music Centre, President of the Edmonton Composers’ Concert Society, Grella-Mozejko is also producer of the New Music Alberta concert series and editor of The Alberta New Music and Arts Review.