Born in 1979 in Wrocław, he obtained an MA from the Wrocław  University of Economics and Business. He also graduated in  composition from the class of Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil  at the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław, and from  the class of York Höller at the High School of Music in Cologne.  In 2020 he was the recipient of an arts bursary from the Mayor  of Wrocław.

His works have been performed at concerts and festivals in  Poland, Germany, Austria, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, Czechia,  Turkey, Estonia, Russia, Japan, China, the United States, Hungary,  Malta, Lithuania, Latvia, and Slovakia. His music has been commissioned notably by Warsaw Autumn (for Ensemble Musikfabrik and Basel Sinfonietta), Deutschlandfunk (for Kwartludium),  Goethe-Institut, BHF Bank Stiftung and Ensemble Modern, City  of Wrocław (for NOSPR), Polish Institute in Madrid (for PluralEnsemble), Institute of Music and Dance, New Music Orchestra, Forbidden City Chamber Orchestra, NFM National Forum  of Music (for the Lutosławski Quartet and LutosAir Quintet),  Society of Authors ZAiKS, and Polish Composers’ Union (for  Pablostrom and Orkest De Ereprijs).

For more than a decade, Paweł Hendrich has been programming and composing in the Max/MSP environment. With Cezary Duchnowski and Sławomir Kupczak he performs live electroacoustic music in the trio Phonos ek Mechanes, which has  appeared in festivals of improvised, contemporary, and electroacoustic music as well as concerts in Poland and abroad.

In 2010 DUX released Paweł Hendrich’s monographic album  Chamber Works, and in 2017, the album Metaforma. In 2012 Bôłt  Records brought out Phonos ek Mechanes’ first CD entitled C+-.  Hendrich’s works have also appeared on a dozen other CDs.