Listen to Martina’s compositions:
‘Abney Chapel – Six Pieces‘: Martina Schwarz and cellist Christopher Allan perform five pieces by Martina Schwarz and a Bach Sarabande in support of Abney Park Trust. The organisation has been struggling to raise funds for the beautiful Abney Park Cemetery and its historic buildings during lockdown. Listen (and donate) here.
Sweet Trouble 1st prize National Accordion Organisation’s Composers Competition (2006)
Gramophone composed for The Red Cabbage Cafe theatre production (1996)
Gritz composed for The Red Cabbage Cafe theatre production (1996)
The Old One composed for The Red Cabbage Cafe theatre production (1996)
Rapid Eye Movements 1st prize at National Accordion Composers Competition (2009)
Martina’s compositions can also be found on Soundcloud:
Videos featuring Martina’s compositions:
The Big Data Sing: a song cycle commissioned by UCL Culture in 2017
“Throughout the evening, the Big Data Choir performed a number of big data related renditions, composed and conducted by Martina Schwarz, in the majestic Grant Museum of Zoology.
Songs about the opaque and mysterious nature of cloud storage solutions, and the ridiculous number of zeros associated with various units of data storage (yottabyte, anyone?) were among the most amusing hits, and provided a welcome respite from the mind-boggling topics being discussed…” (“Big Data Sing” by Oliver Patel, UCL Culture 08/17)
‘L’eau de l’eau’ WaterAid 2017
Vocal composition for mass choir, performed at the Totally Thames Festival Sing for Water (Water Aid)
Martina @ the Courtauld Gallery
Film music:
Stone Soup with original music by Martina Schwarz, is a retelling of the classic European folktale by puppeteer/ artist Bronia Evers (One Moment in Time). Watch it on the Little Angel Theatre YouTube channel
Konspirantinnen (Conspirators) 88 mins 2006. Polish Heroines in Resistance 1939-1945. A film by Paul Meyer – Music by Martina Schwarz
“A cinematic documentary about the survivors of a women’s camp based in North Germany in which the Germans put a number of Polish women who took part in the Warsaw Uprising. Interviews with various survivors who talk about their lives and experiences in the camp and live in exile after liberation as many did not want to return to a Poland that now had a Soviet-style regime.” – BFI Buy on Amazon UK