Authors

Graphic artist and writer, columnist, author of essays and children’s books, born in 1972 in Warsaw. He designs 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. His accolades include the ‘Polityka’ weekly’s 2017 Passport Award for literature and the Nike Literary Award for his book ‘Things I Didn’t Throw Out’, which also won the Witold Gombrowicz Literary Prize and was nominated for Gdynia Literary Prize.

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 soprano and composer, she graduated in composition from Jan Antoni Wichrowski’s class and in solo voice from Danuta Paziuk-Zipser’s class at Wrocław’s Karol Lipiński Academy of Music. She then studied at the Conservatorium Hogeschool Enschede. She is now a professor at her alma mater in Wrocław.