Elzbieta Sikora

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Born in Lwow, Poland, Elzbieta Sikora studied piano at Liceum Muzyczne in Gdansk. She completed her first Master of Arts in 1968 at Akademia Muzyczna in Warsaw where her studies included sound engineering. In the two years that followed she studied electronic music with Pierre Schaeffer and Francois Bayle at the Groupe des Recherches Musicales in Paris. Returning to the Akademia Muzyczna in Warsaw she completed, in 1977, her second Master of Arts in composition with Tadeusz Baird and Zbigniew Rudzinski. In 1973 she founded, with W.Michniewski and K.Knittel the Group of Composers KEW. She studied also the composition in Paris with Betsy Jolas. Scholarships from the French Government at IRCAM, Paris, the City of Mannheim, and the Kosciuszko Foundation at CCRMA (Computer Center for Research in Music and Acoustics), Stanford, have enriched the composer's international outlook. Elzbieta Sikora has received prizes at the Composers Competition in Dresden (1978, II Prize for her opera "Ariadna"), at the Experimental Music Competition in Bourges (1979,80, Mentions for"Waste Land", "Letters to M.", 2000, Prix Magisterium for "Aquamarina" ), at Young Composers Competition in Warsaw (1978, Mention for (".... according to Pascal") and at the Women Composers Competition in Mannheim (1981,I Prize for "Guernica"). She has been awarded twice in 1994 by SACEM, France: Prix Pedagogique for her work "Chant'Europe" and Prix Stephane Chapelier-Clergue-Gabriel-Marie for her work in general. In 19

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Polish Radio Experimental Studio (1957-2003)

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Elzbieta Sikora

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Sikora: Lisboa, tramway 28 - Janek Wisniewski- Decembre-Pologne

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Would It Sound Just As Bad If You Played It Backwards, vol. 2

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Secret Poems [disc 3]

Solo & Electronics

9 Trajectoires

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Secret Poems

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Zdzislaw Piernik Tuba 2 (AGP147)

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warsaw autumn - poly-chromes

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Polish Radio Experimental Studio 1957-2003

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Poly-Chromes

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