Biography
Biography
Welcome to my official website. I am a Polish composer. I write music in all styles and particularly enjoy composing for piano and symphony orchestra, while also creating electronic and experimental music. My versatility and passion for sound exploration are showcased in my recent films Ofiarowanie and Introduction à la Métaphysique.
I was born in 1984 in Kielce. At the age of 14, I began my musical education in the bassoon class at the Ludomir Różycki State Music School in Kielce. I performed my first composition, Sonata for Bassoon and Piano, at a festival in Kielce in the presence of Wojciech Kilar.
2010: I graduated from the Frederic Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, where I studied composition and bassoon.
2012: I completed postgraduate studies in Film and Computer Music Composing at the Łódź Music Academy and Łódź Film School.
My compositions have been performed at numerous festivals in Poland and internationally, including: NYCEMF (New York), Noise Floor (Staffordshire), Electronic Music Week (Shanghai), Opera in Kristiansund and Trondheim Symfoniorkester (Norway), Świętokrzyskie Dni Muzyki (Kielce), Gaude Mater (Częstochowa), Festival A. Didura (Sanok), Musica Moderna (Łódź), Probaltica (Toruń and Warsaw), LeoFestiwal (Wrocław), Festival of Winners in Musical Competitions (Bydgoszcz), and Alkagran (Czechowice-Dziedzice).
I am also the composer of the official bugle call for the Wilanów district of Warsaw.
Film Music
- Obok nas directed by Piotr Suzin
- About Love directed by Piotr Szatyłowicz
- With Long Hair You Are More Beautiful directed by Carlotta Kittel
- The City of the Sun directed by Mateusz Mazur
- Ofiarowanie directed by Bartosz Markowski
- Introduction à la Métaphysique directed by Bartosz Markowski
He has participated in masterclasses with renowned authorities such as Krzysztof Zanussi, Zygmunt Krauze, Piotr Dumała, Adam Pomorski, Maciej Strzembosz, Marek Chołoniewski, and Andrei Smirnov.
Prizes and Scholarships
2025: FIRST PRIZE at the Northern California Viola Society’s International Viola Composition Contest for Heart of the Lake (viola)
2022: FIRST GRAND PRIZE at the International Rodrigo Landa-Romero Composition Competition for Scorpius (piano)
2021: Honourable Mention for Study for One Bell Stroke
2020: ZAiKS scholarship
2019: ZAiKS scholarship
2016: Honourable Mention at the Jan Twardowski Composer's Competition for Jeszcze (bass and strings)
2015: ZAiKS scholarship
2014: Artistic scholarship of the Minister of Culture in Poland
2013: Honourable Mention at the Szymanowski Composer's Competition for Iluzje (symphonic orchestra)
2013: Honourable Mention at the K. Komeda International Composer's Competition for Zakłócenia czasu pewnego tajemniczego miejsca (symphonic orchestra)
2012: 1st Prize at the Baird Composition Competition for Young Composers for Muzyczna Maszyna (bass, guitar, piano)
2010: 1st Prize at the VIII Composition Competition of Polish Music Publisher PWM for Magnetismo (accordion)
2009: 1st Prize at the All-Polish Composition Competition for Our Forest (children’s opera)
2009: Award of the Marshal Office of Kielce
2009: Artistic scholarship of the Minister of Culture in Poland
2008: 1st Prize at the A. Didur All-Polish Composition Competition for Song about Music (soprano and piano)
2008: 1st Prize for a bugle-call of Warsaw district, Wilanów
2008: Honourable Mention at the C.W. von Weber All-Polish Bassoon Composition Competition
2008: Finalist at the I.J. Paderewski All-Polish Composition Competition for Etude (piano)
2008: Finalist at the Z. Herbert All-Polish Composition Competition for Breviary (bass and string quintet)
2007: Special PWM's Prize at the 3rd International Composition Competition Musica Sacra for Lacrimosa (choir)
2007: IVth Prize at the 3rd International Composition Competition Musica Sacra for Lacrimosa (choir)
2006: Honourable Mention at the 3rd International Composition Competition Garden Music for Soul of the Winter (strings)
2002: Mayor of Kielce Prize Hope of Kielce
2002: Fryderyk Chopin Society of Friends' Prize in Kielce
2002: Honourable Mention for Sonata na fagot i fortepian (Olsztyn)
