A Journey of Artistic Discovery Across Europe
ULYSSES CO-COMMISSION: MARTA ŚNIADY
Organised by JVLMA , Warsaw Autumn, Latvia - Poland
“When we return to those times, we will see children writing in each other’s diaries a poem that still resonates like a mantra in the ears of many of us today: ‘Laugh among people, cry only in secret. Be light-feeted in your dancing, but never in your life.’” - Joanna Flis, Co ze mną nie tak? O życiu w dysfunkcyjnym domu, środowisku, w Polsce i o tym, jak sobie z tym (nie) radzimy, Warsaw: Znak Edition, 2023
Warsaw Autumn and JVLMA co-commission emerging composer Marta Śniady in a varied programme performed by London Sinfonietta.
Programme
Laurence Osborn Mute (2024–2025)* (part III) for chamber ensemble
Hannah Kendall Even sweetness can scratch the throat (2023)* for chamber ensemble
Marta Śniady How Can I Help You? (2025)** for amplified ensemble and video
Laurence Osborn Mute (2024–2025)* (part IV) for chamber ensemble
Paweł Malinowski floating:disappearance (ver. b for sinfonietta) (2025) for chamber orchestra
Philip Venables Illusions (2017)* for ensemble and video projection
LONDON SINFONIETTA
Geoffrey Paterson conductor
Andrew Burke Chief Executive & Artistic Director
Marta Śniady electronics in the work How Can I Help You?
Jonathan Green sound projection
Maciej Zadroga sound projection assistant
Marta Śniady
Born in Pabianice in 1986, Marta currently lives in Wrocław. She graduated with honours from the composition class of Bronisław Kazimierz Przybylski at the Bacewicz University of Music in Łódź (2010). For two years, she pursued postgraduate studies in film, computer and audiovisual music in Łódź, before obtaining a postgraduate degree in composition from Simon Steen-Andersen and Niels Ronsholdt at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus (2019).
Her music has been presented at Polish and international contemporary music festivals such as Warsaw Autumn, Sacrum Profanum, Musica Electronica Nova, Frau Musica (Nova), Pulsar, Klang, Heroines of Sound, Musica Estranha, and Percussion Plus. As a composer she has cooperated with groups and performers such as Kwartludium, ElettroVoce, Spółdzielnia Muzyczna, OMN New Music Orchestra, Ensemble Garage, Njyd, Hashtag Ensemble, and Duo van Vliet.
She is a composer of instrumental, stage and electroacoustic music; currently, she focuses primarily on audiovisual works. In 2013, she won the 1st Prize at the 11th T. Ochlewski National Composers’ Competition in Cracow. In 2016, Polish Radio submitted her composition aer for clarinet/bass clarinet and orchestra to the 63rd International Rostrum for Composers. In 2017, she received a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. She works as an assistant professor at the Academy of Music in Łódź.
