Dark-haired Girl In a Black Sports Car

for chamber orchestra (2009)

One day I stopped at a red light next to a dark-haired girl in a black sports car. Looking ahead, she nodded slightly to the beat of the radio. She must have been humming something, too, but there was little to be heard over the noise of the city. After a while, without looking my way, she drove away.

The piece was commissioned by the 52nd "Warsaw Autumn" International Festival of Contemporary Music.

Performance history:
PREMIERE: September 19, 2009 (premiere); The London Sinfonietta, David Atherton; 52. Warsaw Autumn, Polish Radio Concert Studio Witold Lutosławski

October 14, 2010; Chamber Philharmony Pardubice, Marko Ivanovic; IMF Radio Autumn 2010; Martinu Hall; Prague, Czech Republic

November 17, 2011; Studio for New Music Ensemble, Igor Dronov (cond.); Polish Contemporary Music Across Europe with Friends; Moscow Conservatory named after Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Moscow, Russia

September 10, 2012; Alarm Will Sound, Alan Pierson (cond.); 10th Sacrum-Profanum Festival; Łaźnia Nowa Theater, Krakow

October 10, 2014; Szczecin Philharmonic, Charles Munrow; Concert Hall of the Szczecin Philharmonic

Recording history:
10/29-30/2020; Polish Radio Orchestra, Michał Klauza; Studio S2 od the Polish Radio in Warsaw; archive