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composer and teacher; b. 3rd Jun 1956 in Warsaw. Son of composer Ryszard Sielicki. He studied composition with Andrzej Dobrowolski and Włodzimierz Kotoński at the Academy of Music in Warsaw (1975-1980). In 1984 he continued his studies with Ton de Leeuw at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam thanks to a Dutch Government’s scholarship. He participated in the International Composers’ Workshops in Amsterdam (1984, 1988 – with Chou-wen Chung and Mark Kopytman), the International Summer Courses in Darmstadt (1986) and Avignon (1991 – with Elliott Carter).

He is a winner of numerous competitions, including the Tadeusz Baird Young Composers’ Competition of the Polish Composers’ Union, the Competition of the Warsaw Branch of the Polish Composers’ Union and the International Composers Competition in Geneva. In 1989 he received the Stanislaw Wyspianski Young Artists’ Award for outstanding achievements.

He was a multiple scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture and Art in the field of composition. His works were commissioned by the “Warsaw Autumn” International Festival of Contemporary Music, Polish Radio, Swiss Society of Recorder Players, "Do-re-mi" Festival of Contemporary Musical Works for Children and Youth and a number of individual performers. Some of his manuscripts are preserved by the International Composers Foundation in Los Angeles. His scores were printed by important publishers, including PWM Edition. His music was recorded by Polish Radio and released on numerous CDs. In 2001 the album Musica Polonica Nova, Warsaw Composers (Acte Préalable) with his psalm Jubilate Deo for choir a cappella (1994) received a nomination for the “Fryderyk” Award.

Edward Sielicki writes symphonic, vocal-instrumental, choral, chamber, solo and electroacoustic compositions. They have been performed at many concerts and festivals in Poland and abroad, including the "Warsaw Autumn", Poznań Music Spring, Warsaw Music Encounters, Polish Realities in Glasgow, and Festival of Electroacoustic Music in Bourges. His music has been performed in Poland as well as in France, the Netherlands, Italy, Holland, Germany, Finland, Great Britain, Mexico, USA, Russia, Canada, South Korea and other countries. Many outstanding Polish and foreign performers have his compositions in their repertoire, including Maciej Grzybowski, Iwona Mironiuk, Alina Mleczko, Mariusz Pędziałek, Kazimierz Dawidek, Andrzej Niemierowicz, Stanisław Skoczyński, Jozsef Örmeny, Eun Shil Park, Klaudiusz Baran, Tomasz Strahl, Cezariusz Gadzina, Krzysztof Bąkowski, Marek Moś, Silesian Quartet, Joel Suben, Sławek A. Wróblewski, Roman Rewakowicz, Tadeusz Wojciechowski, Jerzy Swoboda, Jan Łukaszewski, and Ewa Marchwicka.

Edward Sielicki has been involved in pedagogical activity for nearly 40 years. He worked at the Karol Szymanowski State Secondary Music School in Warsaw (1982-87), and then for over 10 years at the Fryderk Chopin State Music School Complex in Warsaw, where he taught classes in harmony, instrumentation and 20th-century composing techniques. He has significant achievements in the field of music for children and youth. He wrote with Ewa Marchwicka How easy it is! – A new way of teaching polyphonic singing, published in 1994 by School and Pedagogical Publishing House (WSiP). The publication contains over 200 compositions for children commissioned by the “Do-Re-Mi” Festival in Łódź and the orchestra of the Fryderyk Chopin State Music School Complex in Warsaw.

Since 1987 he has been working at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music. In 1998 he received the equivalent of a PhD. In 2007 he obtained a postdoctoral degree in musical art. He is a co-founder of the Electronic and Computer Music Studio and Iter-University Multimedia Programme at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music and Academy of Fine Arts. In 2008-2014 he was the deputy dean of the Department of Composition, Conducting and Theory of Music. He teaches composition, electronic and computer music, counterpoint and contemporary compositional techniques.

In addition, he has teaching experience at foreign universities. He lectured at the Summer University in Marly-le-Roi near Paris (1992-93), and he taught composition at the Keimyung University in Daegu, South Korea (2001, 2003, 2005-2006, 2013 and 2016). He also lectured in St. Petersburg and Istanbul. He participates in many international courses and conferences, including the international scientific and research project "Forum" at the IRCAM Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics and Music in Paris.

He is a mamber of the Polish Composers' Union, Polish Society for Contemporary Music, ZAiKS Authors’ Association and Polish Society for Electroacoustic Music.

updated: 2020 (ac)

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