Elżbieta Sikora (born 20 October 1943 in

Lwów Lviv ( or ; ; ; see #Names and symbols, below for other names) is the largest city in western Ukraine, as well as the List of cities in Ukraine, fifth-largest city in Ukraine, with a population of It serves as the administrative centre of ...

, other sources write 1944 or 1945) is a Polish composer who has been resident in France since 1981. She has composed stage, orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal, and electroacoustic works as well as film scores. Sikora studied under

Pierre Schaeffer Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer (English pronunciation: , ; 14 August 1910 – 19 August 1995) was a French composer, writer, broadcaster, engineer, musicologist, acoustician and founder of Groupe de Recherche de Musique Concrète (GRMC). His inno ...

, François Bayle,

Tadeusz Baird Tadeusz Baird (26 July 19282 September 1981) was a Polish composer. Biography Baird was born in Grodzisk Mazowiecki, in Poland. His father Edward was Polish, while his mother Maria (née Popov) was Russian. In 1944 at the age of 16 he was deport ...

, Zbigniew Rudzinski. She received numerous honors including First Prize in the GEDOK competition in Mannheim (1981, for Guernica, hommage à

Pablo Picasso Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, Ceramic art, ceramicist, and Scenic ...

), the Prix de la Partition Pédagogique and the Prix Stéphane Chapelier-Clergue-Gabriel-Marie, both from

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(both 1994) and the SACD Prix Nouveau Talent Musique (1996). Her operas are ''Ariadna'' (1977), ''Derrière son Double'' (1983), ''L'arrache-coeur'' (1992) and ''Madame Curie'' (2011). Her ballets are ''Blow-up'' (1980), ''Waste Land'' (1983), ''La Clef De Verre'' (1986).

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Elżbieta Sikora at PWMEditionTaming the Machine: An Interview with Elżbieta Sikora
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