Recorded July 28, 2021, Vangelis Katsoulis Studio Athens, 
Alexandra Papachristou, Piano 

Awarded the 2nd Prize in the “4th Opus Dissonus World Composition Competition for solo piano”, December 2018 

Program notes:
The composition is inspired by Nietzsche's philosophical work "Thus Spoke Zarathustra", and specifically the first two chapters of the third part of the book; "The Wanderer" and "On the Vision and the Riddle". In my opinion, "The Wanderer" is an introduction for "On the Vision and the Riddle", a preparation for the vision of the loneliest one that Zarathustra describes. Each movement of the composition is inspired by each one of the three chapters ("On the Vision and the Riddle" has got two parts).

I attempted to musically depict these pompous, aggressive, energetic and simultaneously so lyrical, poetic and inspiring words. I perceive these two chapters as a mystical and dark atmosphere, as an imaginary abysmal, majestic internal world of the human mind. 

I. The Wanderer 0'00''
II. On the Vision and the Riddle 3'57''
III. On the Vision and the Riddle 9'04''

On The Vision And The Riddle (Alexandra Papachristou, piano)

The recording was mixed for Spatial Audio, AirPods Pro are preferred.


University of Toronto Percussion Ensemble
Conductor: Aiyun Huang
Percussion: Andrew Busch, Alex Fraga, 
Randall Chaves Camacho,  Nikki Huang, Bevis Ng, 
Hoi Tong Keung, Thomas Li,  Tim Roth, Joshua Weinfeld, Cassandra Wolff

March 20, 2023
Walter Hall

Shades of Green — for percussion ensemble (2023)

Garden II 
for Flute, Clarinet in B♭, Violin, and Violoncello (2022-3)
Performed in Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory
Honor Hickman, Sarah Cho, Bella Jeong, Daniel Kim, Jaegone Kim

Garden II

Arroios — for drum set and electronics (2023)

Performed by Synaesthesis Ensemble

Simas Tankevičius (violin)
Kristina Morozova (violin)
Monika Kiknadzė (viola)
Ignė Pikalavičiūtė (cello)

Within "Dark times" project
(more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcKAJK0b3NA)

team: 
Marta Finkelštein (curator, artistic director of Synaesthesis)
Kateryna Alymova (co-curator, artistic director of Jauna Muzika festival)
Laurynas Gaidys (sound engineer)
Dovydas Kiela (sound engineer)
Julijus Grickevičius (LRT Klasika)
Rasa Murauskaitė (LRT Klasika)

with support and partnership of: 
Lithuanian Council for Culture, LRT Klasika, KCMD (Kyiv Contemporary Music Days), Lithuanian Composers' Union.

"sleep during insomnia" for string quartet and electronics (2022)

Soprano - Natacha Demers
Organiste - Olivier St-Pierre

Création : 28 septembre 2024

Fragments d'une consolation

Conduit (2025)

Lidia Zielinska MELODRAMAT for orchestra (2011)

3+pic.3+ca.3+bcl.3+cbn/4.4.3.1/5perc/cel.hp.pf/str(min12.10.8.8.6)

Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra Katowice conducted by Wojciech Rodek;
recorded in June 2011 in Katowice


Zielinska MELODRAMAT for orchestra (2011)

Lidia Zielinska SINFONIA CONCERTANTE for small sound devices, small percussion and orchestra (2015, 22')

2 Soli(1amplif), 4(picc).4.4(bcl).4(cfg)/4.4.3.1/4perc/hp.pf/str

Lidia Zielińska – small sound devices, Krzysztof Przybyłowicz – percussion, Wojciech Błażejczyk – sound director, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra Katowice conducted by Alexander Liebreich
recorded live on September 18th, 2015 at Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall, during the 58th „Warsaw Autumn” International Festival of Contemporary Music


Zielinska SINFONIA CONCERTANTE - 3 excerpts (2015, 22')

Ensemble Uniterberlin

Flöte: Martin Glück
Klarinette: Matthias Badczong
Posaune: Matthias Müller
Schlagzeug: Juris Azers
Klavier: Yoriko Ikeya
Violine: Marika Ikeya
Viola: Jean-Claude Velin
Violoncello: Julia Wasmund

Leiter: Erich Wagner

Conduit (2025)

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