Aleksander Gabryś

Performances

Selected performance contexts

Selected performance situations, ensembles, institutions, and difficult soloist repertoire, including solo and chamber contexts with Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica, and repeated quintet performances with cellist Sol Gabetta.

Ensemble Phoenix Basel

Rio, my Rio performance context

Rio, my Rio with Ensemble Phoenix Basel.

Aleksander Gabryś and Ensemble Phoenix Basel on stage after a performance of Rio, my Rio.

Ensemble Phoenix Basel

Rio, my Rio performance context

Ensemble Contrechamps, Geneva

Performance context for Erinnere dich an G.

Klaus Huber's double bass concerto with Ensemble Contrechamps in Geneva.

Aleksander Gabryś performing Klaus Huber’s double bass concerto with Ensemble Contrechamps in Geneva.

Ensemble Contrechamps, Geneva

Performance context for Erinnere dich an G.

Performance of Klaus Huber’s double bass concerto with Ensemble Contrechamps, Geneva.

Klangforum Wien

Pushkin Museum, Moscow, December 20, 2021

Date
December 20, 2021
Time
20:00
Venue
Pushkin Museum, Moscow
Program
Stockhausen, Furrer, Webern, Klaus Lang, Ligeti

Klangforum Wien at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, 20 December 2021.

Solo excerpt

György Ligeti, Kammerkonzert

A 20-second excerpt from the double-bass solo in the final part of György Ligeti’s Kammerkonzert.

Ensemble Modern

Xenakis portrait, Acht Brücken Festival, 10 May 2013

Date
10 May 2013
Venue
WDR Funkhaus, Großer Sendesaal, Cologne
Festival
Acht Brücken
Context
Xenakis portrait concert
Work
Iannis Xenakis, Theraps

Aleksander Gabryś performing Iannis Xenakis' Theraps at WDR Funkhaus, Großer Sendesaal, Cologne, during Ensemble Modern's Xenakis portrait concert at Acht Brücken Festival.

Iannis Xenakis - Theraps at WDR Funkhaus Cologne

Iannis Xenakis - Theraps at WDR Funkhaus Cologne

Ensemble Modern Xenakis portrait, Acht Brücken Festival, 10 May 2013

Aleksander Gabryś performing Iannis Xenakis' "Theraps" at WDR Funkhaus, Großer Sendesaal, Cologne, during Ensemble Modern's Xenakis portrait concert at Acht Brücken Festival, 10 May 2013.

Steven Takasugi - Sideshow

Collaboration with Simone Keller & Ensemble Tzara

Composer
Steven Takasugi
Ensemble
Ensemble Tzara
Co-performer / source channel
Simone Keller
Media
Two full Sideshow performances and one solo excerpt

Award

New Music Performance of the Year Award in Dublin for the 2019 performance of Steven Kazuo Takasugi's Sideshow at the Music Current Festival. The performance was praised by The Irish Times.

Michel Roth - Kavalkade, Katowice 2008

Premiere context

Work
Michel Roth, Kavalkade
Context
XIII Śląskie Dni Muzyki Współczesnej, Katowice, November 2008
Review
Teresa Michalik, Ruch Muzyczny no. 1, Warsaw 2009

Performance context for Michel Roth's Kavalkade at the XIII Śląskie Dni Muzyki Współczesnej in Katowice, November 2008.

Performance videos

Videos from soloist, chamber, and contemporary-music performance contexts.

Witold Szalonek — Musica concertante per violbasso e orchestra

Witold Szalonek’s «Musica concertante per violbasso e orchestra» with Aleksander Gabryś, double bass; NOSPR / National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice; Tadeusz Wojciechowski, conductor. Concert on 22 October 2004.

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Rebecca Saunders — FURY II performances

Rebecca Saunders — FURY II / Amsterdam

«FURY II», concerto for solo double bass and ensemble by Rebecca Saunders. Aleksander Gabryś, double bass; Bas Wiegers, conductor; Klangforum Wien. Muziekgebouw Amsterdam, 8 November 2018.

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Rebecca Saunders — FURY II / ’s-Hertogenbosch

«FURY II», concerto for solo double bass and ensemble by Rebecca Saunders. Aleksander Gabryś, double bass; Bas Wiegers, conductor; Klangforum Wien. November Music, international festival voor actuele muziek, ’s-Hertogenbosch, 9 November 2018.

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Rebecca Saunders — FURY II / Ljubljana

«FURY II», concerto for solo double bass and ensemble by Rebecca Saunders. Aleksander Gabryś, double bass; Bas Wiegers, conductor; Klangforum Wien. 20th Festival Slowind, Slovenska filharmonija, Ljubljana, 13 November 2018.

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Press excerpt

“With powerful physical playing, Aleksander Gabryś gave his notes an animal primal force.”

Joep Christenhusz, NRC Handelsblad, 9 November 2018.

Ryszard Gabryś performances

Ryszard Gabryś — Ensemble Phoenix Basel performance

Music by Ryszard Gabryś, performed with Ensemble Phoenix Basel.

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Ryszard Gabryś — An die Freude

Music by Ryszard Gabryś.

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Selected double bass performances

Beat Furrer — Lotófagos I

Beat Furrer’s Lotófagos I with Aleksander Gabryś as double bassist.

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Piotr Radko — Kontrabasskonzert

Piotr Radko’s Kontrabasskonzert with Aleksander Gabryś as soloist.

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Mario Davidovsky — Synchronisms No. 11

Mario Davidovsky’s «Synchronisms No. 11» for double bass and electronic sound, performed by Aleksander Gabryś.

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