Dalbergia Duo

Dalbergia Duo (Anna Rutkowska & Julianna Siedler Smuga) is a unique female marimba/percussion duo from Poland, performing various music written for two marimbas/percussion sets. We perform pieces already written by great composers of classical, film and contemporary music. Moreover we cooperate with composers form around the globe who also write pieces for our duo. In our repertoire one can find performative compositions with audio and visual layers, and one of them is a piece by Dutch composer Giel Vleggar “Come here often”. In 2017 both of us obtained the Doctors of Musical Arts degree.

Our Polish repertoire includes  pieces written by: Marta Ptaszyńska, Marcin Błażewicz, Bartosz Kowalski, Nina Fukuoka, Artur Zagajewski, Marta Śniady, Kuba Krzewiński, Piotr Peszat and the others. In 2019 we had opportunity to perform four world premiere works from five pieces dedicated to us: Piotr Peszat – “Comforting music” for two marimbas and video, Artur Zagajewski – “solide – chanson” for two marimbas, Kuba Krzewiński – “AdM-Room” for one marimba, two performers and two objects, Radosław Mateja – “Pętle na dwie marimby” (Loops for 2 marimbas), as well as Marta Śniady – “in the pink” for two prepared marimbas, video and audio playback (see link below).

In April 2018 we won 1st Prize on International Master Competition for Music Teachers and obtained recommendation from Polish Music Foundation for outstanding inerpretation of Polish works and in December 2018 we won 2nd Prize on International North Music Competition in Sweden (Stockholm) – chamber music category.

So far we have performed in Poland (Musica Moderna Festival) and Spain (Agora Actual Percussio), Lithuania (Doctors in Performance) and Belgium. We had opportunity to be a part of Inter alia:  XII International Percussion Music Festival “Sources and Inspirations” in Cracow (PL), as well as 14th “Mózg International Contemporary Music and Visual Arts Festival” in Bydgoszcz (PL), do soon we will take a part in “Poznan Music Spring” Festival in Poznan (PL).

If you are interested in cooperation with our duo, or would like to listen to other musical samples concerning marimba compositions – don’t hesitate to contact us! We would be more than happy to be a part of this amazing event.

Links: http://www.dalbergiaduo.com/
https://www.facebook.com/DalbergiaDuo/

Marta Śniady’s ‘in the pink’: https://youtu.be/Fs3HVJbQ38I
For two prepared marimbas, audio playback and video, work commissioned by one of our duo members – Julianna and developed by two of us. This piece includes percussion theater elements. It had its premiere in November 2017. Dalbergia Duo performed it in December 2017 and link to recording of that work one can find below.

Mainstream marimba repertoire excerpts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2g89StILNw&t=