Composer and pianist, born in 1971 in Elbląg. Duchnowski has held scholarships from the Friends of Warsaw Autumn Foundation, the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Heinrich Strobel Foundation’s Experimental Studio des SWR, and Ernst von Siemens Foundation in Munich. His accolades include prizes at the International Rostrum of Electroacoustic Music in Rome and the Gaudeamus modern music performance competition in the Netherlands.

Duchnowski focuses on electroacoustic music. He also creates chamber and symphonic works, multimedia and interactive improvised projects. He performs in the Elettro Voce duo with Agata Zubel. With Paweł Hendrich and Sławomir Kupczak, he founded Phonos ek Mechanes, an ensemble working with “human electronics,” a special type of improvised electronic music in which computers are controlled by acoustic instruments. Syncretic art, in which music crucially contributes to polymedia artistic works, is gaining importance in his output. This trend is represented by sound installations and theatrical spectacles.

Duchnowski is professor of composition at the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław.

Selected works (since 2014): Parallels for instruments and electronics (2014), Drone Music for instruments and electronics (2014), Symphony of Sets for instrumental groups and electronics (2015), Stories Nowhere From for voice, piano and electronics (collective composition, 2015), eSequenza I. Study for a Second Cymbal Stroke for cymbal and computer (2016), Fables for Robots, co-opera after short stories by Stanisław Lem (with Paweł Hendrich, 2016), Relatively Closed Systems (with Paweł Hendrich and Paweł Romańczuk, 2017),cROSSFAdE 2 for viola, accordion and electronics (2017), Relatively Closed System for total piano and virtual machines (2017), Ball of Spring Plenitude for instruments and electronics (2017), Upbeat for 8-channel tape (with Rafał Augustyn, 2018), eSequenza II. Starter for harpsichord and computer (2018), The Rage for voice, instruments and electronics (2018), cROSSFAdE III for voice, accordion and electronics (2019), Whims for semantoabsorbing phonotyser (with Agata Zubel, 2020), Whims for desemantric verbaphone (with Agata Zubel, 2020), Devil’s Fiddle, rural opera (collaboration, 2020), eSequenza III. The Rest for voice and computer (2020), Radio Quartet for electric current and complementary sounds (2020), From Perfect Void for voices and electronics, parts 2 and 5 (2021), phonoPhantomatics for instruments and electronics (2021), Wooden for cello (2021), cROSSFAdE 4 for trumpet, trombone and electronics (2023), Matching Components for percussion, hybrid instruments, electronic and visual media (collective audiovisual multimedia work with Marcin Rupociński – music, Maja Wolińska and Laura Adel – video, 2024), The Best City in the World. An Opera about Warsaw in 16 scenes for two female voices, choirs, great symphony orchestra and electronics, to a libretto by Beniamin Bukowski after Grzegorz Piątek’s book The Best City in the World (2025), Cryotune, part of the immersive project Random Check 7 (with Laura Adel – video, 2025)