Authors

Composer, pianist, arranger and conductor Adam Sztaba graduated from Zbigniew Rudziński’s composition class at Warsaw’s Chopin Academy (now – University) of Music. He made his debut as a composer in the musical Fatamorgana? staged at the Dramatyczny Theatre in Koszalin (1993).

Born on 3rd October 1882 on the family estate at Timoshevka, now Ukraine, he died on 29th March 1937 in Lausanne. Szymanowski learned the piano from his father and with Gustav Neuhaus in Elizavetgrad. In 1901 he left for Warsaw, where he took composition lessons with Zygmunt Noskowski. He joined the Young Polish Composers’ Publishing Company in 1905.

Writer, poet and essayist born in 1962. She studied psychology at the University of Warsaw. After her first literary successes, she gave up her work as a psychotherapist and moved to the Sudetes – currently she lives in Krajanów near Nowa Ruda. Despite the fact that her first short stories were published in Na przełaj in 1979, it is her 1993 book The Journey of the Book-People that is widely considered her literary debut. The book brought her the Polish Publishers’ Association Award.

Writer and journalist, born in 1979 in Żernica. A sociologist by education, he graduated from the Interdepartmental Individual Humanist Studies at the University of Silesia in Katowice.

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.

Graphic artist and writer, columnist, author of essays and children’s books, born in 1972 in Warsaw, died 2025. He designed covers, posters, and logotypes. For several years he created weekly comic-strip commentaries for ‘Tygodnik Powszechny’ weekly. He has also written texts for, among others, ‘Gazeta Wyborcza’ daily as well as ‘Autoportret’, ‘Literatura na Świecie’, ‘Charaktery’, ‘Pismo’, and ‘Polityka’ magazines.

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.

Composer, double-bassist, and music event organiser, Wielecki studied double bass with Alfred Wieczorek and Andrzej Mysiński, composition with Włodzimierz Kotoński at the Warsaw Academy of Music (now the Chopin University of Music). He continued his composition studies with Isang Yun in West Berlin and with Klaus Huber in Freiburg im Breisgau. He took part in summer courses in Wzdów, Kazimierz Dolny, and Darmstadt (to which he returned after two decades as a lecturer).