Wysocki, Zdzisław, 1944-

Zdzisław Wysocki is a Polish composer, born in 1944 in Poznań (Posen). Wysocki studied composition in Poznań (1963–1968) and later at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna with Erich Urbanner. He became an Austrian citizen in 1976. Wysocki's works have been performed in Europa by the Ensemble Wiener Collage and its artistic director René Staar: at the Salzburg Festival in 2003, the Kölner Philharmonie in 2000, the Stars of the White Nights Festival in 2007, at the Wiener Konzerthaus in 1996, and several other occasions. His work "Double Concerto" has been premiered by Kent Nagano in San Francisco in 2002, his three orchestra Etudes (Nr. 99-101) were premiered in February 2014 by the McGill Symphony Orchestra, Montreal, under the baton of Alexis Hauser. He has written additional commissions for the Ensemble Wiener Collage. His work combines elements of the 2nd Vienna School and the Polish Avantgarde, namely Witold Lutosławski.