Authors

Composer and educator, born on 17th June 1930 in Vilnius. He studied composition with Julius Juzeliūnas at Vilnius Conservatory (1952–1957) and with Bolesław Woytowicz at Warsaw’s State Higher School of Music (1957–1960). In 1963 and 1966 he continued his composition studies under the guidance of Nadia Boulanger in Paris.

Born in Rybnik, Poland in 1994; a saxophone player and composer. He initially learned the cello, taking up the sax only after several years. A graduate of Copenhagen’s Rytmisk Musikkonservatorium and Kraków’s Academy of Music, he studied with such teachers as Lee Konitz, Steve Lehman, and David Binney, among others.

Born on 10th of July 1835 in Lublin, died on 31st of March 1880 in Moscow. The distinguished Polish virtuoso violinist and composer.

Composer, conductor, and educator. In 1974 she graduated from the Kraków’s Academy of Music after conducting and composition studies with Krzysztof Penderecki. She continued her education at conducting masterclasses with Hans Swarowsky in Austria.

Composer, improviser, author of multimedia installations, and educator. He studied at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice and the Koninklijk Conservatorium in the Hague, as well as completing a doctorate in composition and computer music at the University of Chicago. He is currently a composition teacher at the University of Louisville, as well as head of UofL’s computer music studios. He has been a guest lecturer at the Academies of Music in Kraków and Katowice, Columbia College Chicago, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the Indiana University, and others.

Maciej Zieliński explores a wide palette of styles, trends and genres, from contemporary classical to film and popular music. His contemporary classical works are well known for their textural and formal invention, well-thought-out dramaturgy, expressiveness, and individual postmodern approach.

A charismatic percussionist, singer and composer. She graduated in percussion (class of Jan Antoni Wichrowski) and solo voice (class of Danuta Paziuk-Zipser) from Wrocław’s Academy of Music. In 2000 she continued her studies at the Conservatorium Hogeschool Enschede.