Born in 1953 in Poznań, she graduated from the State High School of Music in Poznań, where she studied composition with Andrzej Koszewski. She has received commissions from the Polish Radio, Solidarity Trade Union, Eighth Day Theatre, Holland Dance Festival, Euro-Musik-Theater in Stuttgart, de ereprijs, Swedish Radio, Ministry of Culture of Baden–Württemberg, Warsaw Autumn Festival, Adam Mickiewicz Institute, and the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. She has worked at the electronic music studios of State High School of Music in Cracow, Polish Radio in Warsaw, IPEM/BRT in Ghent, EMS in Stockholm and ZKM in Karlsruhe.
She has been the recipient of 17 awards at composers’ competitions. Her works have been performed at festivals in many countries in Europe, Asia and the Americas. In 2007 she received the Polish Composers’ Union Award for her outstanding and comprehensive compositional achievements.
Lidia Zielińska currently holds the post of professor of composition and head of the Studio of Electroacoustic Music at Poznań’s Music Academy; she also teaches classes in sonology at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań.
She has published and lectured extensively on Polish contemporary music, electroacoustic music, the history of experimental music, sound ecology and traditional Japanese music, on the invitation of universities in Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. She has conducted summer courses, workshops and seminars in Poland and abroad. She serves as a juror, curator, expert and consultant to many musical, intermedial and educational enterprises in many countries in Europe and various institutions of the European Union.
For many years, Lidia Zielińska has fulfilled many official functions; she is currently Vice-President of the Board of the Polish Composers’ Union and Vice President of the Polish Association for Electroacoustic Music. She has served as a member of the programme committee of the Warsaw Autumn Festival (1989–92 and 1996–2005), artistic director of Musical Spring Contemporary Music Festival in Poznań (1989–92), Child and Sound international festival in Poznań, member of the programme committee of the ISCM World Music Days in Warsaw, and the Polish-German Radio Copernicus.
After the political breakthrough of 1989 she was the initiator and co-founder of the BREVIS Music Publishers (1990), Child and Sound Foundation (1991), music quarterly “Monochord” (1993), Friends of Warsaw Autumn Foundation (1998), “Zachęta“ Greater Poland Region Fine Arts Society (2004), Polish Association for Electroacoustic Music (2005) and other associations.
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S e l e c t e d w o r k s ( s i n c e 1 9 9 5 ):
Venture Unknown, ballet (1995),
Jednostka togo for male choir and prepared piano (1995),
Jako te białe myszki for tape (1996),
La vetrata for youth string orchestra (1996, rev. version of
Six Compositions for String Quartet, 1979),
Expandata for snare drum and tape (1997),
Motetus universalis, installation (1997),
A Ballad on Ballata for tape (1997),
Percussionata for 40–60 percussionists (1998),
Znacie, to posłuchaj- cie…, radio feature after Julian Tuwim (1998),
Zoom for violin and orchestra (2000),
Just Too Many Words for tape (2001),
Grain to Grain for 13 instruments (2002),
Sketch from Nature, multimedia spectacle (2002),
From a Sketchbook 2, multimedia spectacle (2003),
dumchrzquii for tape (2004),
Rhapsody for violin and electronic sounds (2004),
Nobody is Perfect for electronic sounds and 17 instruments (2004),
Adventure of Mr. K., electronic music for ballet (2005),
Lunches at Rejowiec 1965–1565, text-sound composition (2006),
Everything Has Been, audiovisual installation (2006),
From the Garden of Sciencesfor choir and CD, to words from the Book of Ecclesiastes (2006),
Open Your Ears! Open Your Eyes!, audiovisual miniature for children (2006),
Conrad’s Seven Islands for electronic timbres and 10 amplified instruments (2007
), Eighth Island for CD (2008),
Beethoven’s Cook for CD (2009),
Aby tytuł utworu… for clarinet, electric guitar and piano (2009),
Rust for six instruments and CD (2010),
Canción triste for violin and CD (2010),
In the Rear for computer (2010),
Backstage Pass for computer (ambisonics) or multi-channel projection (2010),
Melodrama for orchestra (2011),
X3 for 14 instruments (2011),
Years for orchestra (2011),
Musical Landscapes – Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, multimedia concert for children (2011),
Aphasiafor tenor saxophone and CD (2012),
Ukiyo for 19 instruments (2012).
