Peszat, Piotr International Festival of Contemporary Music Warsaw Autumn

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Born in 1990, composer and sound artist. He studied composition with Simon Steen-Andersen at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus (2013–15) and Krzysztof Meyer at the Music Academy in Cracow (2009–14, graduating with honours). He obtained his PhD in 2018 under the tuition of Marek Chołoniewski and his habilitation in 2022. 

His music has been featured at numerous workshops and festivals such as Lucerne Festival, Warsaw Autumn, Musica Polonica Nova, Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Sacrum Profanum, and Ultraschall. 

He has worked with ensembles such as MusikFabrik, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Modern, ensemble recherche, Scenatet, and Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra.

Apart from autonomous music, he writes for theatre plays and films. He currently works as junior lecturer at the Electroacoustic Music Studio of the Music Academy in Cracow. 

Selected works (from 2020): Trombone Concerto for trombone, chamber orchestra, live electronics and live video (2020), The Piano Was a Pole for piano, live electronics, live video and lights (2020), PEnderSZATch, paragraph composition for chamber ensemble, audio playback, live electronics, video and interactive voting system (2020), The Dictionary of Imaginary Places for violin, multichannel live electronics and live video (2020), Plant Concerto with Pianosong for piano, sampler, chamber ensemble and audio playback (2020), Sensation Score #1 for harpsichord, VR goggles and live electronics (2021), F******-Gran Torso, audio playback (2021), Songs of New Music I Have Seen for four electronic winds, chamber ensemble, live electronics and live video (2021), Musikalisches Opfer #2 for cello, voice, chamber ensemble, live electronics and live video (2021), The Promised Land of Error for voice and live electronics (2021), I Shall Never Return for flute and multichannel live electronics (2022), TVTVP — Thousand More Years for voice, multichannel live electronics and video (2022), TVTV — Intronisation for Ableton Push, performers, multichannel live electronics and live video (2022), Your Personal Rate of Growth in a Rapidly Changing World for piano, VR goggles and multichannel live electronics (2022), Comforting Music for two marimbas, VR goggles, multichannel live electronics and video (2022), Gewalt der Musik for chamber ensemble and multichannel live electronics (2023), PEnderSZATch Rising for chamber ensemble, audio playback, live electronics, video and lights (2023).