Peszat, Piotr International Festival of Contemporary Music Warsaw Autumn

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Born in 1990, composer and sound artist based in Cracow. His  artistic activity combines instrumental and electronic music elements as well as multimedia and performance. He graduated  with a distinction from the Music Academy in Cracow after  composition studies with Krzysztof Meyer and master studies at The Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus in the class of  Simon Steen-Andersen and Niels Rønsholdt. He holds a Doctor  of Musical Arts degree from the Academy of Music in Cracow  (2018), completing a postgraduate degree in 2022.

His music was featured notably at the Lucerne Festival, Ung Nordisk Musik Festival, Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt, Gaudeamus, Huddersfield, and Ultraschall. He has cooperated with ensembles such as Ensemble Musikfabrik, Klangforum  Wien, Nadar Ensemble, Scenatet Ensemble, and Ensemble  Modern.

He works as an assistant professor in the Electroacoustic Music  Studio at the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music 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), Plant Concerto with Pianosong for piano, sampler and 2-channel audio playback (2024; also solo version for  chamber ensemble, sampler, audio playback and video), And  I Am on Stage Again for trombone, 4-channel audio playback,  live electronics and live video (2025), Digital Environments for  chamber ensemble, 8-channel audio playback and live electronics (2025), La Vie et La Passion de Jésus-Christ for chamber ensemble, 4-channel audio playback, live electronics and video (2025),  Imaginary Soundscape for flute, multichannel audio playback and  live electronics (2025), As If Understood for chamber ensemble,  audio playback and live electronics (2026).