Composer and violinist who combines his artistic work with educational, organisational and outreach activities. A graduate of the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław, where he currently runs a composition class and serves as director of the Institute of Composition. He further developed his compositions skills during courses in Apeldoorn, Radziejowice, Rēzekne, and Venice. In 2016, he was awarded a PhD, and in 2022, a postdoctoral degree in the arts.
He is the author of over 120 compositions spanning instrumental, vocal, electronic, electroacoustic and multimedia music, as well as projects at the intersection of science and art. In his work, he allies the discipline of precision and the freedom of risk, convention and experimentation, communicativeness and abstraction. He does not shy away from irony, deconstruction, and dialogue with popular culture.
His art revolves around the original concept of “para-serious music,” rooted in the tradition of high culture yet subverting its conventions, rituals, and hierarchies. Its starting point remains sound, which serves as a pretext for constructing complex contexts of perception, parallel narratives, and the disruption of established concert conventions. In this context, a musical work operates at the intersection of concert, theatre, performance and commentary on its own mechanisms of operation, creating a space of tension between the audible and the visible, the real and the imagined, the serious and the absurd. His works have been performed over 350 times in Poland and internationally, notably at festivals such as the ISCM World Music Days, Warsaw Autumn, Sacrum Profanum, Musica Polonica Nova, Musica Electronica Nova, Poznań Music Spring, Warsaw Music Encounters, and Musica Moderna, performed by orchestral and chamber ensembles such as NOSPR (directed by Marzena Diakun), NFM Wrocław Philharmonic (dir. Geoffrey Paterson), Amadeus Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra (dir. Agnieszka Duczmal), Tallinn Chamber Orchestra (dir. Risto Joost), Sinfonietta Cracovia (dir. Vincent Kozlovsky), Orkest de Ereprijs (dir. Rob Vermeulen), the New Music Orchestra (dir. Szymon Bywalec), Hard Rain Soloist Ensemble (dir. Sinead Hayes), Spółdzielnia Muzyczna Contemporary Ensemble, Sepia Ensemble, Hashtag Ensemble and Kwartludium. His compositions have been recorded on over a dozen CDs, including releases on the DUX, Orchid Classics and Requiem Records labels. He has been awarded the Bronze Cross of Merit and the Meritorious for Polish Culture Medal. He is a member of the Polish Composers’ Union, Polish Society for Contemporary Music, Polish Association for Electroacoustic Music, and the Academy of Young Scholars and Artists.
Selected works (since 2018): Stanzas for saxophone orchestra, tuba and percussion (2018), foLksong for chamber ensemble (2019), Impra, audiovisual work for electronics and video (with Alicja and Mariusz Jodko, 2019), Illusions for symphony orchestra (2020), Phantom Trio for violin, cello and piano (2020), FluteDiving for flute using continuous breath (2020), The Thing for cello (2021), Shire Bet Haknesset, five synagogue songs based on melodies by Abraham Lichtenstein for organ, cantor and children’s choir (2021), inVisible for soprano, cello and electronics (2021), Stabat Mater for soprano, cello, mixed choir and string orchestra (2021), Xchange for two flutes and harpsichord / piano (2022), Music of Illusions for chamber orchestra and electronics (2022), Sol Invictus α, audiovisual work for computer, Kinect and video with stage layer (with Angelika Iżykowska and Agnieszka Smętek, 2022), Sol Invictus β, interactive installation (with Angelika Iżykowska, 2022), T-rains for flute and organ (2023), ReTurns for alto saxophone and piano (2023), …ad infinitum for choir and symphony orchestra (2024), MonuMento 1–2 for organ (2023–25), MediTatio 1–3 for organ (2024–25), (Non-)Strict Music for cello and electronics (2025), Reusable Music /Multiuse Music for monophonic instrument, polyphonic instrument and electronics (2025), Pool Dance for clarinet, violin, percussion, piano, billiards player–performer, quasi-billiard table and electronics (2025), zBożenki for viola and double bass (2025), Single-Use Music for trumpet, accordion, cello and electronics (2025), (Im)perfect Music, quasi-piano concerto for keyboard instruments, chamber orchestra, electronics and video (2026), Post-Music for chamber orchestra and electronics (2026), Matilda’s Songs for cello, electronics and video (2026).