Zakrzewska – Nikiporczyk Barbara

Zakrzewska – Nikiporczyk Barbara (* 1 January 1946 Poznań-) A graduate of the Poznań Academy of Music in the composition class of Florian Dąbrowski. Laureate of many composition competitions. She currently lives and works in Houston, Texas, continuing to work as a composer, musicologist and librarian.

She is the author of 65 songs and over 80 works, including eight books. She gave over twenty lectures in Poland, Germany, Italy, Sweden and the United States.

Information about creative and artistic achievements  on the portal polmic.pl and here.

The composer’s pieces with the violin are:

• Klimaty for string quartet (1972)
• Platonic Music for violin, piano, organ, harp, celesta and bells (1974)
• To the light for horn, violin and harp (1975)
• Star dust, violin concerto (1978)
• Dream for string quartet (1979)
• Enigma for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, alto saxophone, violin and cello (1979)
• Folk Fantasy for flute and string quartet (1979)
• On the Milky Way for string quartet (1980)