New music collaborations
studio recordings
Natalia is an avid new music performer and has worked with members of the Ensemble Modern and Klangforum Wien, performed at the Darmstadt Summer Music Courses, and is a Lucerne Festival Academy Fellow. She has also twice performed in the Kronos Quartet’s “Fifty for the Future” outreach initiative. She holds a postgraduate diploma in contemporary music from the Kunstuniversität Graz in Austria.
The following are all works for solo viola that she has premiered and in most cases commissioned.
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live performances
Natalia Badziak, viola; Nicholas Denton-Protsack, composer
For this piece, the viola C and G strings are prepared with a small piece of paper, a paper clip and a barrette to produce percussive effects. “Matrameru” is inspired by Indian sacred metric poetry and based in part on the Fibonacci sequence.
Natalia Badziak, viola; John Kennedy, composer
This piece was commissioned in 2017 and was inspired by the Mary Oliver poem of that same name. The talking and singing in this piece is not meant to be a recitation of the poem. Rather, the text is an additional layer to the music and is sometimes deliberately subliminal and unclear. The voice should seem as if it’s in the musician’s head, as if the musician is talking and singing to herself.
Natalia Badziak, viola; Simon Al-Odeh, composer
“y las dos eran ninguna” was commissioned in 2018 and is based on the Federico Garcia Lorca poem of that same name. It makes frequent use of multiphonics and other extended techniques.