Philip Czaplowski
Philip Czaplowski is a Polish Australian composer of Classical music, who has written more than fifty works for orchestra, chamber ensemble or solo performer.
Czaplowski is a Represented Artist of the Australian Music Centre (AMC)[1][2], and his music is published by the International Music Score Library Project[3] and the AMC[4]. Many of the composers scores are also held in the collection of the National Library of Australia.[5], and he is a member, and former Treasurer of the Melbourne Composers League.[6]
Czaplowski was born on 30th April 1958 in London.[7] His family emigrated to Australia in 1969[8], where he first studied composition with Felix Werder. He later studied music at the University of Melbourne and La Trobe University, where his composition teachers included Peter Tahourdin, Theodore Dollarhide, and Keith Humble, as well as piano with Rodney Sigston. Funded by the Australian Postgraduate Awards in 2003, Czaplowski completed a PhD in music composition at Monash University in 2007[9] under the supervision of Thomas Reiner[10], where he also lectured in Music Theory. During 2005 he also studied in Poland at the Academy of Music in Kraków, where he worked with Marcel Chyrzyński, Zbigniew Bujarski, Krystyna Moszumańska-Nazar, Wojciech Widłak, and Anna Zawadska-Gołosz][11]
In 1999 Czaplowski was commissioned by Symphony Australia to compose a work for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) with funding provided by the Australia Council. The resultant work titled Momentum was premiered by the MSO in Melbourne in April 2000, conducted by James Judd.[12] In 2012 he composed the soundtrack of the Australian feature movie The Caretaker.[13] In 2018 Czapłowski was invited to attend the International Festival of Kraków Composers (Kraków, Poland 2018)[14], where his work emergence for flute, viola and harp was premiered by the Lorien Trio at MOCAK, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków.[15]
Czapłowski has composed three instrumental concertos, each commissioned with funding from the Victoria State Government via Arts Victoria. His Concerto for Oboe and strings was written in 1997 for Australian oboist Jeffrey Crellin and Australia Pro Arte, now the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra[16], and subsequently performed by the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra and the Geelong Chamber Orchestra.. The concerto for clarinet and strings was written for David Thomas[17] and Australia Pro Arte, and premiered in September 2001 with Jeffrey Crellin conducting. In 2003 Czapłowski's Concerto for Violin and Strings was premiered by Mark Mogilevsky and Australia Pro Arte, conducted by Jeffrey Crellin.[18]
Festival Performances
Czaplowski's music has been performed at international music festivals, including:
- Encuentros Festival Internacional (Brazil 1995)
- International Double Reed Society Conference (Arizona 1998)
- Federation Music Week (Melbourne 2000)[19]
- Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music (Belfast 2003)
- Szymanowski Festival 2003 (XXVI Dni Muzyki Karola Szymanowskiego, Poland)
- International Double-Reed Society Conference (Melbourne 2004)
- Melbourne International Festival of Single Reeds (2005)
- Cortona Contemporary Music Festival (Tuscany, Italy 2006)
- Karhonfest (Karhonsaari, Finland 2017)
- 7th European Clarinet Festival (Porto, Portugal 2017)
- 30th International Festival of Kraków Composers (Kraków, Poland 2018)[20][21]
- 5th International Clarinet Festival (Lima, Peru 2019)[22]
- Elzbieta Chojnacka Festival (Tarnowskie Góry, Poland 2019)
- Gorczycki Festiwal (Tarnowskie Góry, Poland 2020)[23]
- 5th Seminar of Contemporary Harpsichord Music 'Cembalo no limits' (Łódź, Poland 2022)
- 2nd International Low Flutes Festival (USA 2022)
- 2nd Festiwal im. Elżbiety Chojnackiej (Tarnowskie Góry, Poland 2023)
- 36th International Festival of Composers (Kraków, Poland 2024)[24][25]
- Gorczycki Festiwal (Tarnowskie Góry, Poland 2025)[26]
Works
Orchestral
- leah string orchestra (2024)
- birrarung marr string orchestra (2005)[27][28]
- violin concerto violin & string orchestra (2003)[29][30]
- chloe string orchestra (2003)[31][32][33][34][35]
- clarinet concerto clarinet & string orchestra (2001)[36]
- momentum orchestra (2000)
- threnody string orchestra (1998)[37][38]
- oboe concerto oboe & string orchestra (1997)[39][40][41][42][43]
Chamber Music
- masque II clarinet & piano (2025)
- masque I flute & bass flute (2025)
- light from darkness 2 pianos (2023)[44]
- freedom piano & harpsichord (2022)
- moonlight violin & piano (2021)
- addio clarinet & piano (2020)
- beyond time 2 harpsichords (2020)
- wherever I go, there I am... 3 bass clarinets (2018)
- emergence flute, viola & harp (2018)
- Red moon shakuhachi & harpsichord (2006)[45][46]
- innocence II violin & piano 2006)
- At the Grave of Dmitri Shostakovich vioin & cello (2004)[47]
- Wind Quintet (2004)
- Conversations 3 clarinettists & electronics (2003)[48]
- innocence violin & piano (1998)[49]
- personae oboe, clarinet & bassoon (1996)
- trio flute, oboe & cello (1994)
Solo
- landscape III: genocide in Gaza 'cello (2025)
- landscape II: Westerplatte 1939 horn in F (2025)
- landscape I: Wallaroo viola (2025)
- monologue V viola (2025)
- monologue IV bass flute (2025)
- monologue III violin (2025)
- monologue II bassoon (2025)
- monologue (I) oboe (1998/rev. 2025)
- psychodrama flute (2025)
- inventions I-III (piano version) piano (2024)
- trzy mazurki piano (2024)
- blood moon bass flute (2023)
- inventions I-III harpsichord (2023)[50]
- enigma I flute (2022)
- kyiv flute (2022)
- kanashimi flute (2022)
- in memoriam Krzysztof Penderecki harpsichord (2021)[51][52]
- tjukurpa contrabass clarinet (2021)
- lament for antoniou flute (2020)
- three preludes harpsichord (2019)[53][54]
- requiem bass clarinet (2018)
- hanna harpsichord (2018)
- finis temporis flute (2018)[55][56][57]
- elegia alto flute (2007)
- lavender mist flute (2007)
- you yangs landscape horn in F (2004)[58]
- totenlied clarinet (2003)
- Blackird's Song of Peace flute (2003)[59]
- ocean greyness clarinet (2003)[60]
- ocean greynessbass clarinet (2003)[61]
- elegies clarinet (1998)[62]
- mysterium bass clarinet (1994)[63]
- every now and then... bass clarinet (1987)
Miniatures
- lostwithiel lever harp (2025)
- almost daylight hichiriki & bass flute (2025)
- daina flute (2021)
- minidrama tenor saxophone (2021)
- lux aeterna bass flute (2020)
- miniatura II flute & 2 violins (2006)
- miniatura I violin & viola (2006)
External Links
- Philip Czaplowski's Official Website
- Profile at the Australian Music Centre
- Official YouTube channel
References
- ↑ "Philip Czaplowski : Represented Artist Profile : Australian Music Centre".
- ↑ A Composer Connects. Sounds Australian, journal of the Australian Music Centre. no. 58, 2001
- ↑ https://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Czaplowski%2C_Philip [bare URL]
- ↑ https://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/search?type=work&sort=alphaTitleSort&wfc[]=Philip+Czaplowski
- ↑ "Search | Catalogue | National Library of Australia".
- ↑ "Represented Composers – Melbourne Composers' League".
- ↑ England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2007
- ↑ http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/ANZCompuLawJl/2002/36.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ↑ https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/25923446 [bare URL]
- ↑ Pfitzinger, Scott. Composer Genealogies. Rowan & Littlefield, Maryland 2017.
- ↑ "Philip Czaplowski : Represented Artist Profile : Australian Music Centre".
- ↑ "Momentum : Full orchestra by Philip Czaplowski : Work : Australian Music Centre".
- ↑ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2140499/ [bare URL]
- ↑ "30. Międzynarodowy Festiwal Kompozytorów Krakowskich".
- ↑ "30th International Festival of Krakow Composers - MOCAK".
- ↑ "Jeffrey Crellin : Australian Music Centre".
- ↑ "David Thomas".
- ↑ "Mogilevski premieres Czaplowski concerto". October 2003.
- ↑ "Federation Music Week – Melbourne Composers' League".
- ↑ "30th International Festival of Krakow Composers - 14-22 April 2018".
- ↑ "Premieres at 2018 Int'l Festival of Kraków Composers – Polish Music Center".
- ↑ "ClarinetFest 2019 Archives".
- ↑ ""Music in the image. Image in the sound": Final Concert – Polish Music Center".
- ↑ https://festiwal.zkp.krakow.pl/36/en/ [bare URL]
- ↑ "Premieres at the 2024 Cracow Int'l Composers' Festival – Polish Music Center".
- ↑ https://www.aleksandragajecka-antosiewicz.com/centrum-wsp%C3%B3%C5%82czesnej-muzyki-klawesynowej-el%C5%BCbieta-chojnacka-center/ [bare URL]
- ↑ Clive O'Connell, The Age 21/06/2005
- ↑ Martin Ball, The Australian 21/06/2005
- ↑ "Mogilevski premieres Czaplowski concerto". October 2003.
- ↑ Clive O'Connell - The Age, 1/10/2003
- ↑ Preskun, Stephen. A Chronological History of Australian Composers And Their Compositions. Xlibris Publishers, Vol. 4 1999–2013, p 392- Vol. 4 1999–2013, p 392.
- ↑ Martin Ball - The Australian, 8/5/2003
- ↑ Clive O'Connell - The Age, 7/5/2003
- ↑ Xenia Hanusiak - Herald Sun, 6/5/2003
- ↑ ABC 24 Hours Magazine, November 2001
- ↑ Clive O'Connell - The Age, 14/09/2001
- ↑ Joel Crotty - The Age, 26/6/98
- ↑ Johanna Selleck - Herald Sun, 26/6/98
- ↑ The Age Newspaper. 21 August 1997, page 30
- ↑ Joel Crotty - Herald Sun, 22/8/97
- ↑ Geelong Advertiser, 6/9/97
- ↑ Johanna Selleck - Herald Sun, 2/9/97
- ↑ David Dell - Christchurch Press, NZ 5/98
- ↑ https://annaomuzyce.pl/podsumowanie-tygodnia/ [bare URL]
- ↑ "REAR VISION : Live concert recordings 1998 – 2008 – Melbourne Composers' League".
- ↑ "Red moon : Shakuhachi and harpsichord by Philip Czaplowski : Work : Australian Music Centre".
- ↑ "Melbourne Composer's League". December 2004.
- ↑ "Conversations".
- ↑ Xenia Hanusiak - Herald Sun, 15/8/2000
- ↑ https://palacwrybnej.pl/centrum-wspolczesnej-muzyki-klawesynowej-im-elzbiety-chojnackiej/ [bare URL]
- ↑ https://palacwrybnej.pl/centrum-wspolczesnej-muzyki-klawesynowej-im-elzbiety-chojnackiej/ [bare URL]
- ↑ https://www.aleksandragajecka-antosiewicz.com/centrum-wsp%C3%B3%C5%82czesnej-muzyki-klawesynowej-el%C5%BCbieta-chojnacka-center/ [bare URL]
- ↑ https://polmic.pl/pl/dzieje-sie/tarnowskie-gory-interdyscyplinarny-cykl-artystyczno-naukowy-muzyka-w-obrazie-obraz-w-dzwieku [bare URL]
- ↑ https://tarnowskiegory.pl/2020/07/do-palacu-wrocila-muzyka/ [bare URL]
- ↑ https://polmic.pl/pl/dzieje-sie/premiera-plyty-kioloik-z-polska-muzyka-fletowa-xxi-wieku-w-wykonaniu-alicji-molitorys [bare URL]
- ↑ https://prestoportal.pl/premiera-plyty-kioloik-alicji-molitorys [bare URL]
- ↑ Piotr Grella-Możejko, "Śląsk" [Silesia], Nr 2 (341), February 2024 p 73.
- ↑ Clive O'Connell - The Age, 30/08/2004
- ↑ "KAPPA".
- ↑ Honderd jaar ernstige studie en musiceervreugde de geschiedenis van het Zaans Symfonie Orkest 1921-2021. Zaans Symfonie Orkest 2021, https://zaanssymfonieorkest.nl/images/pdf/JubileumboekZSO100Jaar.pdf
- ↑ Cameron, Erin, 1993-. The Emancipation of the Bass Clarinet: Harry Sparnaay and the Development of Solo Bass Clarinet Repertoire, dissertation, December 2020; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1752380/m1/78/: accessed August 23, 2025), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .
- ↑ "MOSAICS : Live concert and studio recordings 1998 – 99 – Melbourne Composers' League".
- ↑ Cameron, Erin, 1993-. The Emancipation of the Bass Clarinet: Harry Sparnaay and the Development of Solo Bass Clarinet Repertoire, dissertation, December 2020; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1752380/m1/78/: accessed August 23, 2025), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .
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