Texts
Artistic texts, repertoire notes, interviews, and writings.
Texts
Reviews
The Strad, theStrad recommends...
David Kettle’s The Strad review of the double album Bassolo — XX/XXI Centuries’ Contrabass Music, released by DUX.
David Kettle, The Strad, “theStrad recommends...” review of Bassolo. Issue date and page number are not visible in the supplied scan.
Ruch Muzyczny, no. 15/2011
Krzysztof Kwiatkowski’s Ruch Muzyczny review of the double album Bassolo — XX/XXI Centuries’ Contrabass Music, released by DUX.
Krzysztof Kwiatkowski, Ruch Muzyczny, no. 15, 24 July 2011, p. 43.
Aleksander Gabryś during Witold Szalonek’s Musica concertante per violbasso e orchestra with the Silesian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Czesław Grabowski. Katowice, February 2009. Photo: Krzysztof Lisiak.
Aleksander Gabryś during Ryszard Gabryś’s An die Freude. Katowice, February 2009. Photo: Krzysztof Lisiak.
Aleksander Gabryś. Katowice, February 2009. Photo: Krzysztof Lisiak.
Aleksander Gabryś. Katowice, February 2009. Photo: Krzysztof Lisiak.
Aleksander Gabryś. Katowice, February 2009. Photo: Krzysztof Lisiak.
Aleksander Gabryś. Katowice, February 2009. Photo: Krzysztof Lisiak.
La Montagne, Clermont-Métropole, 4 November 2016
Pierre-Olivier Febvret’s review in La Montagne after Aleksander Gabryś’s opening recital at the 18th Musiques Démesurées Festival in Clermont-Ferrand.
Pierre-Olivier Febvret, La Montagne, Clermont-Métropole, Clermont-Ferrand, 4 November 2016.
Texts
Interviews
Interview — Twoja Muza (2011)
Interview published in the Polish magazine Twoja Muza in 2011. Topics include Bassolo, composition, performance practice, contemporary music, Poland and Switzerland.
Twoja Muza, no. 3 (46), June-July 2011.
Interview “Pewnej nocy ujrzałem wieczność”, Twoja Muza, no. 3/2011.
First page of the interview, p. 28.
Second page of the interview, p. 29.
TVP3 Katowice (2011)
TVP3 Katowice interview with Aleksander Gabryś recorded in 2011 during the promotion period of Bassolo.
Interview — Grajnisko.pl (2014)
Donat Zamiara’s interview with Aleksander Gabryś, published on Grajnisko.pl in March 2014. The conversation covers the double bass, contemporary music, Bassolo, Bestiarium, instrumental theatre, and the boundaries of artistic work.
Interview — Śląsk, no. 2 (231), February 2015
Magdalena Dziadek’s interview with Aleksander Gabryś, published in Śląsk in February 2015. The conversation covers the Swiss contemporary music scene, the works Bestiarium, Carrillo_N13 and metAtem, ensemble work, and the double bass in new music.
Magdalena Dziadek, “Szwajcarskie Bestiarium i inne utwory”, Śląsk, no. 2 (231), February 2015, p. 36.
Magdalena Dziadek, “Szwajcarskie Bestiarium i inne utwory”, Śląsk, no. 2 (231), February 2015, p. 37.
Texts
Collaborations
Nicolas Tzortzis — Running a business, hommage à Tony Soprano; Thomas Wally — Soliloquy III: polypolar dancing drone bass bear. 131 Fragmente
Aleksander Gabryś’s creative relationship with Nicolas Tzortzis and Thomas Wally around two works for double bass.
Nicolas Tzortzis — Running a business, hommage à Tony Soprano; Thomas Wally — Soliloquy III: polypolar dancing drone bass bear. 131 Fragmente.
Helmut Oehring — Angelus Novus III
Aleksander Gabryś’s creative relationship with Helmut Oehring around Angelus Novus III.
Helmut Oehring — Angelus Novus III.
David Moss and Helmut Oehring — FinsterHERZ oder Orfeo17
Aleksander Gabryś’s creative relationship with David Moss and Helmut Oehring around FinsterHERZ oder Orfeo17.
David Moss and Helmut Oehring — FinsterHERZ oder Orfeo17.
Davor Vincze — La Tentation de Saint Antoine
Aleksander Gabryś’s creative relationship with Davor Vincze around La Tentation de Saint Antoine. Photo after the performance at Stanford.
Photo after the performance at Stanford.
Texts
Press articles
Press article / profile — Śląsk, No. 12 (277), December 2018
Piotr Grella-Możejko’s article on Aleksander Gabryś as composer, solo double bassist, performer, multimedia artist and interpreter of contemporary music, published in Śląsk in December 2018.
Press traces
Review excerpt dossier
Selected review excerpts on performances, recordings, premieres, festivals and artistic activities of Aleksander Gabryś from various publications and years.
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Essays
Kontrabasista, Wrocław 1998
In this 1998 article for Kontrabasista, the magazine of the Polish Double Bass Society, Aleksander Gabryś writes about Iannis Xenakis’ ‘Theraps’ as a physical, technical and metaphysical boundary work for solo double bass.
Kontrabasista, Polskie Stowarzyszenie Kontrabasistów, Wrocław 1998.
Memoirs
Aleksander Gabryś’s personal remembrance of Bazyli Matysiak, his first double bass professor: a teacher who knew how to see people and open the world of sound before them.
Archival remembrance
Aleksander Gabryś’s personal remembrance of Zbigniew Wegehaupt, their shared inheritance from Professor Bazyli Matysiak, and the only public performance preserved in two archival recordings.
Remembrance of Witold Szalonek (2019)
A 2019 personal recollection of Witold Szalonek, connecting family memories, performance practice, microtonality, form, and later international experiences shaped by his influence.
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Portrait
Jahresbericht der Abteilung Kultur Basel-Stadt 2019
Archival documentation of the portrait of Aleksander Gabryś prepared for the Jahresbericht der Abteilung Kultur Basel-Stadt 2019.