Born in 1994 in Cracow, he studied composition at the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music with Marcel Chyrzyński and as a scholarship holder of the student exchange programme at the University of Louisville with Krzysztof Wołek. At the Academy in Cracow, he also completed a degree in music theory under Teresa Malecka. He is currently a student at the Doctoral School of the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław in Agata Zubel-Moc’s composition class. 

He has been awarded at two editions of the Krzysztof Penderecki International Competition for Young Composers: an honourable mention for Streams (2018) and the main prize for Whispers (2019). He also won the 2nd Prize at the 16th Tadeusz Ochlewski Composition Competition for Reverberations. In 2020 he won the 2nd Prize in the 62nd Tadeusz Baird Youth Competition for ...Breath. Since 2021, he has been a member of the Youth Circle of the Polish Composers’ Union.

Olgierd Juzala-Deprati is particularly interested in the relationship between music and visual arts, the space of silence in music, and the exploration of extended performance techniques. He often uses onomatopoeic effects and sound symbolism.

Selected works: Whispers for string quartet (2018), Ciaccona in G for violin, viola, double bass / violone and percussion (2019), ...Breath for four violins (2021), ci-sza for soprano saxophone, percussion and piano (2022), Omaggio a Caravaggio for chamber ensemble (2023), Periodic Fractions, Fading into Memories for string orchestra (2024), Before-Images / After-Images for early music ensemble (2024).