Authors

Composer, born on 18th March 1961 in Białystok. She studied composition with Włodzimierz Kotoński at the Warsaw Academy of Music (now the Chopin University of Music) and later with Louis Andriessen in The Hague. She perfected her musical abilities at the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music and as part of the DAAD artistic exchange in Berlin

Composer, violinist and educator. He studied composition with Jan Wichrowski and computer music production with Cezary Duchnowski at Wrocław’s Academy of Music. He then completed postgraduate studies with Stanisław Krupowicz and Cezary Duchnowski.

One of the greatest Polish composers and a leading figure in 20th-century Polish music; composer, pianist, and conductor. Born on 25 January 1913 in Warsaw, he died there on 7 February 1994. Lutosławski’s youthful works were still impacted by French Impressionism, while the first post-war decade was under the influence of native folklore. A breakthrough in the composer’s style came with Funeral Music (1954–1958), in which he proposed a new look at the harmonic material – operating with all twelve tones, but with a reduced number of intervals.

Born on 5th May 1819 in Ubel, d. on 4th June 1872 in Warsaw, Moniuszko came from a landowning family in the area of Minsk. He learnt music first in Warsaw, then in Minsk and Berlin. Then he settled in Vilnius, where for 18 years he had a busy artistic career as a composer, organist at St John’s Church, organiser of artistic events, and teacher.

Born in 1929 in Eppendorf, Saxony, passed away in 1995 in Berlin, Müller was a German playwright, writer, poet, editor, and director. In 1951, Müller’s parents fled to West Berlin, while he moved to East Berlin.

Born in 1971 in Oława, Mykietyn graduated from Włodzimierz Kotoński’s composition class at the Academy of Music in Warsaw (1997; now the Chopin University of Music). In 1993, he made his debut at the Warsaw Autumn festival with a piece titled La Strada. In the same year, his 3 for 13 was awarded the 1st prize at the International Rostrum of Com-posers in Paris in the category of composers under 30 years of age (in 2000 it was presented at the Midem Classique in Cannes). 1995 saw his Epiphora winning the 1st prize at the 4th International Rostrum of Electroacoustic Music (IREM) in Amsterdam in the same category.

He studied composition with Aleksander Lasoń at Katowice’s Academy of Music and with Steve Rouse at the University of Louisville, receiving scholarships from the ‘Young Poland’ programme of the National Centre for Culture Poland and the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage.

Born in 1990, a jazz pianist and composer. One of the most frequently awarded jazz musicians of the young generation studied at Krakow’s Academy of Music, and later at Berklee College of Music.