1. Hymnus*
[11:41]
2. Pax in terra II
[07:12]
3. Adoramus [04:09]
4. Regina caeli
[04:36]
5. De profundis
[12:14]
6. Ave. Alleluia. Amen
[06:11]
7. Libera me* [04:08]
8. Hosanna [09:13]
9. Dies Irae
[20:23]
* world premiere recording
Marian Borkowski, composer, musicologist, pianist and educator; born 17 August 1934, Pabianice, Poland. Studied music in 1959 – 1965 at the State College of Music in Warsaw: composition with Kazimierz Sikorski and piano with Jan Ekier and Natalia Hornowska. Simultaneously, he studied musicology at the University of Warsaw, which he completed under Józef Chomiński in 1966. In 1966 – 1968 he continued his compositional studies with Nadia Boulanger and Olivier Messiaen at the Paris Conservatorium and his musicological studies under Jacques Chailley and Barry Brook at the University of Paris. Simultaneously, he studied philosophy with Jean Hyppolite and Jules Vuillemin at the Sorbonne and the Collège de France. Furthermore, he took part in the International New Music Courses in Darmstadt (1972, 1974) and at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena (1973, 1975 – Diploma di Merito), under the direction of György Ligeti, Iannis Xenakis, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Franco Donatoni.
Marian Borkowski has been a lecturer at the Academy of Music in Warsaw since 1968, where he runs the composition course. In 1989 he received the title of professor. In 1975 – 1978 he was also pro-dean at the Faculty of Composition, Conducting and Music Theory; pro-rector in 1978 – 1981 and 1987- 1990; director of the Chair of Music Theory in 1993 – 1999; dean at the Faculty of Composition, Conducting and Music Theory in 1996 – 1999, head of the Chair of Composition from 1999 to 2004. He has been the organiser and head of the Post-Graduate Music Theory School since 1998, and since 2000 the organiser and director of the Post-Graduate Composition School at the Warsaw college. Since 1989 he has also been teaching composition as visiting professor and guest artist at Concordia University (Montreal), University of Montreal, Conservatoire National de Musique (Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris), Accademia Musicale Chigiana (Siena), University of Kansas (Lawrence), University of Southern California (Los Angeles), San Francisco State University, Eastman School of Music (Rochester), Georgia State University (Atlanta), Tulane University (New Orleans), University of North Texas (Denton), Bowling Green State University, University of Charleston, Rice University (Houston), University of Miami, William Paterson University of New Jersey (Wayne), Baldwin Wallace Conservatory (Berea, Ohio), Southwest Missouri State University (Springfield), Hanyang University (Seoul), Seoul Conservatory of Music, Keimyung University (Taegu), Catholic University of Taegu-Hyosung, Korean National University of Arts (Seoul), University of Suwon.
Marian Borkowski’s students include: Joanna Badełek, Wojciech Blecharz, Marcin Błażewicz, Renata Kunkel, Maria Pokrzywińska, Alicja Gronau, Jerzy Kornowicz, Marcin Wierzbicki, Dorota Dywańska, Katarzyna Bortkun-Szpotańska, Szymon Kawalla, Dariusz Łapiński, Paweł Łukaszewski, Aldona Nawrocka, Tadeusz Trojanowski, Roman Rewakowicz, Piotr Spoz, Łucja Szablewska, Seweryn Ścibior, Marek Towiański, Maciej Żółtowski, Grażyna Paciorek, Maciej Zieliński, Maria Wąsowicz, Aleksander Kościów, Emilian Madey, Bartosz Kowalski-Banasewicz, Sławomir Zamuszko, Ryszard Osada and many students and interns from abroad, including: Fanny Tran (Belgium), Choi Chun-Hee (Korea), Daniel Luzko (Paraguay), Lee Chong-Man (Korea), Joe Cutler (United Kingdom), Hong Jin-Pyo (Korea), Mi-Jin Lee (South Korea), Boris Alvarado (Chile), Brian Thompson (Canada), Jin-Keum Kim (South Korea), Jae-Pil Lim (South Korea), Alessandra Ciccaglioni (Italy). As a pianist he has played concerts in Poland and abroad, including Austria, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, Italy, Canada, South Korea and the United Stated. He has many radio, television and phonographic recordings of his own works and those of other Polish composers to his name. Andrzej Dutkiewicz (piano) and Roman Lasocki (violin) are his regular collaborators.
Marian Borkowski’s academic oeuvre includes over 20 theoretical papers on 20th-century music theory, modern compositional techniques, sonology, twelve-not composition (especially the compositional technique of Anton Webern), 20th-century Polish music and compositional pedagogics. He participated in several dozen international congresses, conferences, symposiums, academic sessions and festivals in Poland and abroad.
Marian Borkowski’s pieces have been performed at chamber and symphonic concerts in 25 European countries, as well as in Australia, Bolivia, Iran, Jamaica, Japan, Canada, Columbia, South Korea, Cuba, Mexico and the United States. They have also been performed at Polish and international music festivals in: St. Petersburg, Darmstadt, Aix-en-Provence, Witten, Paris, Los Angeles, Utrecht, México-City, Munich, Salzburg, Lisbon, Geneva, Lviv, Pusan, Viitasaari, Taegu, Metzu, Warsaw, Madrid, Berlin and Seoul. Furthermore, many of his compositions have been recorded for radio and television (in over 20 countries) and released by such labels as Polskie Nagrania, Veriton, Olympia, Pro Viva-Intersound, Polonia Records, Sound-Pol, Dux, MTJ, Acte Préalable, Global Sound Media and GM Records.
source: polmic.pl