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The Quasi Una Fantasia ensemble consists of two talented musicians - Bożena Boba - Dyga (voice) and Maciej Zimka (accordion). Their main areas of interest are poetic song and modern music. Quasi Una Fantasia creates original music to the texts of Polish poets. They often reach for various types of lyric verse – the varied stylistics of the poetry inspi-res multicoloured music with which many a type of listener can identify.The artists express themselves through recitation, melodeclamation, as well as purely instrumental music performed by solo accordion and voice.

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[1] Original sound theatre performance Alterego – premiere, Bożena Boba-Dyga:

voice, Maciej Zimka: accordion

[2] A concert by Quasi Una Fantasia duo. Bożena Boba-Dyga: voice,

Maciej Zimka: accordion

[3]A concert by Quasi Una Fantasia duo. Bożena Boba-Dyga: voice,

Maciej Zimka: accordion

[4] A concert by Quasi Una Fantasia duo. Bożena Boba-Dyga: voice, Maciej Zimka:

accordion (during the 99th A rt Salon).

[5] Quasi Una Fantasia – a recital of Jewish songs and graphic music by the Cracow-based

duo: Bożena Boba-Dyga: voice, Maciej Zimka: accordion – during the presentation of

a new issue of “R ita Baum”, a magazine featuring articles on the Yiddish culture.

[6] A concert by Quasi Una Fantasia (Bożena Boba-Dyga: voice, Maciej Zimka: accordion).

[7] A rrangements and recording of original compositions set to the threnodies by Marzena

Dąbrowa-Szatko as a part of presentation of the new volume of poetr y by Marzena

Dąbrowa-Szatko featuring the guest appearance of Olga Szwajgier’s Voice Laboratory choir

and Mandragora musical group.

[8] A vernissage of a retrospective ex hibition on the occasion of 20th anniversar y of Bożena

Boba-Dyga’s artistic activity featuring: world premiere of a work entitled “Desiderium” (Boże-

na Boba-Dyga: voice, Sabina Cebula: piano, Jacek Kopiec: accordion, A leksandra Lelek:

cel lo, Miłosz Mączy ńsk i: guitar, Barbara Mglej: v iolin, Wiesław Ochwat : accordion, Michał

Roemer: piano, Tomasz Skotnick i: v iola, Maciej Zimka: accordion), a concert of songs of the

Quasi Una Fantasia duo with the guest appearance of the singer Jaga Wrońska.

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[1] A programme combining l iter-

ature and music performed by the

Armonia Lyrica ensemble as a part of

the project Cracow Nights – Cracovia

Sacra Festival . Bożena Boba-Dyga:

voice, Grzegorz Miszczyszyn: accor-

dion, Grzegorz Palus: accordion, Ma-

ciej Zimka: accordion.

[2] A concert for poems as a part of the

project entitled Małopolska of Many

Cultures Festival - Armonia Lyrica en-

semble: Bożena Boba-Dyga: voice,

Grzegorz Miszczyszyn: accordion,

Grzegorz Palus: accordion, Maciej

Zimka: accordion.

[3]As a part of the cycle entitled Sum-

mer Concerts in Podgórze – a concert by

Armonia Lyrica, consisting of Bożena

Boba-Dyga: voice, recitation and Sirius

accordion trio - Grzegorz Miszczyszyn,

Grzegorz Palus and Maciej Zimka.

[4] A concert by Armonia Lyrica quartet

(Bożena Boba-Dyga: voice, Grzegorz

Miszczyszyn: accordion, Grzegorz Palus:

accordion, Maciej Zimka: accordion) as

a part of the Cracow Accordion Festival.

The music of Quasi Una Fantasia cannot be classified easily. The duo performs literary song and modern music striving to discover and develop the unique marriage of the voice and the accordion, not often employed in music. As far as the lite-rary song goes, the duo, constantly in search of new musical qualities is inspired by various music genres including the ballad, classical, improvised, klezmer, French, Fado, Trova or jazz music.

The music the ensemble performs could be described as im-pressionist and illustrative.

It follows the text and employs all possible means to convey its meaning and the mood inherent to it, at the same time concentrating on the sound qualities which makes it possible to call it colour music.

In the realm of modern music Quasi Una Fantasia reaches for paratheatrical means incorporating into their repertoire graphic scores, improvised music as well as compositions both of their own and of modern composers. The artists also collaborate with the other instrumentalists, a choir and acrobats. The mutual permeation and collaboration of the two individual creative personalities creates unique quality reaching beyond the stereotype singer/accompanist.

If performance takes place in a multimedia space there’s the possibility of videoart projection.

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songs and melodeclamation covering a wide range of topics accompanied by music of varied genres including – among others – ballad, jazz, blues, French chanson, theatrical song.

A CONCERT FOR POEMS

RAISINS AND ALMONDS

songs composed to the poems about the Jews and the Jewish culture, Jewish songs and the graphic scores of the Jewish artists

DE PROFUNDIS

songs and melodeclamation about passing of time as well as music works by (among others) V. Trojan and S. Gubaidulina performed on solo accordion.

SACRÉ-COEUR

a concert of sacred songs and instrumental music of J.S.Bach and W.A.Mozart performed on solo accordion.

ARMONIA LYRICA

a programme performed by the extended ensemble – an accordion trio and a voice

THE SONGS OF NOSTALGIA

lyrical ballads about love, longing, human condition – life and death.

Poet, singer, composer, performer of improvised modern music, visual artist, art conservator, designer. One of the most original contemporary Polish artists. A polysensory artist combining visual arts, music, litera-ture and theatre. An extraordinarily strong artistic personality believing in the unity of arts, freely employ-ing multidimensional means of ex-pression in keeping with her creative needs. A graduate of the Cracow Visual Arts Academy, the Faculty of Conservation and Restoration of Art and the academic humanities class specialising in Latin and Greek at the oldest Polish 1st B. Nowodwor-ski High School in K raków.

Scholarship holder of the European Tempus Programm in Berlin, Ger-many and Deutsche Akademische Austausch Dienst Berlin/Erlangen, Germany. Member of the Polish Writ-ers Association and the Polish Visual Artists Association, member of the conservation section board and secre-tary of the Polish Conservators Board.

She commenced her musical educa-tion at the age of seven in the class of piano and percussion. She studied singing with Sonia Lehnert at the Music School in K raków and later, with – among others – the famous Polish singer Olga Szwajgier in her Voice Laboratory and A lison Pearce, the lecturer of the Royal Music Acad-

emy of London during the K raków Summer Music Academy master-classes. She is fascinated with the eclecticism in music and combines elements of modern music, classical bel canto singing, ethnic music (es-pecially Jewish music), French music and lyrical ballad. She composes and performs music and sets it to the po-etry of poets of various generations including Ewa Chruściel, K rystyna Lenkowska, Eryk Ostrowski, Elż-bieta Zechenter- Spławińska, Józef Baran, Stanisław Stabro, Witold Zechenter, Bogusław Żurakowski as well as of her own.

She participated in numerous festi-vals including the Student Song Fes-

B O Ż E N AB O B A - D Y G A

tival in K raków, Cracovia Sacra Festival, K raków Accordion Festival, Przemyśl Poetry Autumn, K rynica Literature Autumn, Małopolska of Many Cultures Festival. She also recorded for the Polish Radio, Radio A lfa and Radio Chicago. She presented her poetry and music as a part of various cyclical events such as K raków Night of Poetry and Music, Carols for the Homeless, Poetry A ll Saints’, The K raków Bread of Hope, The Night of the Poets at the Royal Castle in Niepołomice, The Convention of Poets in Pawłowice, The Port of Poetry in Chorzów, K rynica Autumn of Poetry and Przemyśl Autumn of Poetry.

She performed in various venues including The KTO Theatre, Radio K raków, Rotunda, Piwnica pod Baranami, Pod Jaszczurami Club, Jazz Acoustic Piec Art Club, Loch Camelot, The Czecz Manor in K raków, Przemyśl Culture and Science Centre “The Castle”, in the USA – New York, Boston, New London, Princeton, Trenton, in Germany – Berlin, in Italy – Torino and in Ukraine – Vinnitsa. In 2008 an album entitled “A Concert For Poems” was published by the paganini publishing house under the auspices of Polish Radio and Television in K raków (Bożena Boba-Dyga: voice and compositions, Piotr Czerny: piano, K inga Bocheńska-Szostak: violin, Marek K ru-pa:saxophone, Józef Michalik: double-bass, Sławek Berny: percussion instruments, Grzegorz Palus: accordion).

The reviews were extremely positive – let us cite one by the poet Adam Ziemianin:

I am so glad Bożena Boba - Dyga is able to combine words and music so accurately. The ef fects of such a marriage are so affectionate.And it is important she sings with all her heart and uses good poetry.

Utterly fascinated by the sound of the accordion, she cannot imagine her musical future without it. In 2009/2010 she recorded her second album entitled “AccordiON i Ona” (in Polish: “On” = ”he “ ,“Ona” = ” She”) where she performed with the accordion player. Jacek Sojan said about this recording:

…It is a musical journey of two soloists getting along with each other perfectly, wandering together through the poetry, the accordion interweaving its colourful aliquots into the dramatic images created through the theatrical melodeclamation or painted with the melancholy of the incantation. You don’ t listen to it , you experience it . Such is the essence of the art – to meet, feeling the same emotion, to become, by the law of metanoia, a dif ferent, a better human being.

In 2010 she co-founded the Quasi Una Fantasia ensemble in which she performs with the accordionist Maciej Zimka.

She published two volumes of poetry: The hiding place of Sylvia von Sielberstein (1st publication in 2003, 2nd publication in 2006 in the K raków Poets Confraternity Publishing House) and The Drop published in 2007 by the Signo Publishing House. Two selections of her poetry have been published overseas: Written with the rain (2008) published in Lviv in a bilingual Polish-Ukrainian version by the Nov yi Lviv Publishing House and Spokój Śniegu/ Calmness of the snow/ Gelassenheit des sch-nees/ Calme de neige (2009), addressed to the global village, published in four languages by the Br@ndbook Publishing House in Polish and also translated into English, French and German.

She was awarded 2nd prize in the International Literary Contest „The adventure comes when it wants to” and the 1st prize in a Poetry Tournament. Her works were also published in the literary arts magazines, including “Odra”, Topos”, “Repub-lic of Culture”, “The Forum of Free Thought”, “Fragile”, “The Cultural Gazette”, “Renovations and The Monuments of Culture” as well as in “The Polish Daily News”, “K raków Gazette”, “Polish Daily News” in Chicago, USA, “The New Daily News” in N YC and in the Ukrainian “The Stanislavsk Newspaper”, “The Vinnitsk Newspaper” and “The Western Courier”. Since 2004 she has been included in the modern Polish poetry almanacks, her poetry can also be found in the internet, for example at the website of the Polish Writers Association – the K raków branch, The Port of Poetry, The Wardrobe and many more. A mong the ones who wrote about her works one may find Józef Baran, Elżbieta Zechenter-Spławińska, prof. Wojciech Ligęza, prof. Stanisław Stabro, Jacek Lubart-K rzysica, prof. Ignacy Stanisław Fiut, Eryk Ostrowski, Janusz M. Paluch, Marek Czuku, Marek Wawrzyński, Wojciech Węcław, Marek Pieńkowski OP, Agnieszka Żuchowska-Arent, Marzena Niezgoda, Łukasz Mańczyk and many others.

In the area of visual arts she creates visual arts and literature assemblages, which

have been presented many times in Poland and the USA and have also been pub-lished in the form of postcards. Bożena Bob-Dyga is also professional art renova-tor, specialising in the area of architecture. She conducted conservation works all over Poland, renovating over 300 objects including elevations of the historic ten-ement houses Hetmańska, A modejowska, Czynciela, Pod Jaszczurką, Pod Blachą, Pod Słońcem in the Main Square area in K raków, elevations of the Palace and Little Castle in Radziejowice near Warsaw, the interiors of the Stary Theatre in K raków, The Polish Theatre in Bielsko-Biała, and the Adam Mickiewicz Theatre in Częstochowa, polychromies at the cathedral in Bielsko-Biała, at the Castle of the Presidents of Republic of Poland in Wisła, polychromies at the Salesian Broth-ers Church in Przemyśl and many others. For her work as an art renovator she was awarded many prizes including Modernisation of The Year (four times) and the Foundation of Piotrkowska Street Prize.

In 2010 Bozena Boba - Dyga founded the Art Forum Foundation the statute of which assumes promotion of syncretism in art in the spirit of the Wagnerian idea of Gesamtkunstwerk. She organised the inauguration of the K raków Accordion Festival and the Graphic Score Workshops for the students of K raków art acade-

mies, crowned with three exhibitions and concerts. She also introduced the concert cycle entitled Podgórze Accordion Fridays.

She lives and works in K raków. The information concerning the artist can be found in the internet at the following websites:

http://w w w.artforum.net.pl/dzialalnosc_artystyczna

http://sppkrakow.pl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=305%3Abozena-boba-dyga&catid=23&Itemid=30

http://w w w.zpap.krakow.pl/web/documents/boba_96_dyga_bobfena_ _.html

http://w w w.youtube.com/watch?v=DcZcYgAOASo&feature=plcp

http://w w w.youtube.com/watch?v=_NNzP88fnIM&feature=plcp

M A C I E JZ I M K A

Accordionist, composer, arranger, participating in artistic activities combining music, visual arts and theatre. He’s a graduate of the 1st degree studies at the Academy of Music in K raków. Presently, he’s a student of the 2nd degree studies in the accordion class of Associate Professor Janusz Pater. The art-ist is especially interested in the works of composers of the 20th and 21st centuries, including R . Haubenstock-Ramati, V.  Holm-boe, A. Nordheim, S.Gubajduli-na, Z.Bargielski, T.Hosokawa, A. K rzanowski, C. Meijering).

Maciej Zimka is a prize-winner at numerous instrumental compe-

titions, both Polish and interna-tional ones. A mong others he won 1st prize of the Gorlice Accordion Confrontations (as a part of the Cord AniMa duo consisting of Anna Trólka – violin and Maciej Zimka – accordion), 1st prize at the International Accordion Competi-tion in Vilnius (as a part of the Cord AniMa duo), 1st prize at the Inter-national Accordion Music Compe-tition in Mława,

1st prize at the International Accor-dion Music Festival in Przemyśl, 3rd prize at the International Ac-cordion Festival in K lingenthal, 3rd prize and the special prize for the best performance of a composi-

tion by Andrzej K rzanowski during the Andrzej K rzanowski Polish Ac-cordion Competition in Czechow-ice-Dziedzice and Bielsko-Biała as a part of the 21st Autumn Music Festival A lkagran, 3rd prize of the Polish Accordion Classes Audi-tions in Gdańsk, 5th prize at the International Accordion Festival in Castelfidardo (Italy).

Maciej Zimka is an active musician performing classical and modern music, jazz and poetic song con-certs both in Poland and overseas, both on his own and as a part of chamber music ensembles. He performed during numerous Pol-ish and foreign festivals, including

“Sound 12” in Newcastle upon Tyne (England), “Małopolska of Many Cultures Festival” in Zator, International Accordion Festival in Sanok, K raków Accordion Festival, K raków Composers’ Music Days, K raków Nights Festival: Cracovia Sacra Night and The K raków Poetry Night. Maciej Zimka also toured the USA (Chicago, Princeton, Trenton), performed in Italy (Torino), in the Ukraine (Lviv) and in Poland (K raków, Wrocław, Warszawa, Jaworzno, K rosno, Sanok).

Maciej Zimka is also an active composer. He composes works for the accordion, other instruments and chamber music ensembles. A mong his works one may find two string quartets, a sonata for violin and piano, a sonata for violin and accordion, “Songs of the Night” for a mezzo-soprano and piano set to the poetry of Eryk Ostrowski, an accordion sonata, Chanson I for accordion and Chanson II for two guitars. The composer’s works were presented during the 24th edition of K raków Composers’ Music Days and the 22nd edition of Adam Didur Festival in Sanok. His compositions were published by the Absonic and Edition Astra Music Publishing Houses. Thanks to his activity in the field of composition more achievements and successes appear in his curriculum vitae, including 2nd prize at the International Composition Competition in Sanok, a distinction during the International Composition Competition in Sanok, 2nd distinction during the Adam Didur Polish Composition Competition, 3rd place during the Adam Didur Polish Composition Competition in Sanok. Maciej Zimka has also been awarded numerous scholarships including the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage scholarship, President of the Council of Ministers scholarship as well as Sapere Auso scholarship, several times.

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