Sarad, Mikołaj International Festival of Contemporary Music Warsaw Autumn

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Born in 1999, he is a saxophonist and composer. In 2023 he  graduated with honours from the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy  of Music in Bydgoszcz. For the past six years, he and organist  Michał Dzięcioł have performed as SorgAnX, championing  music written for saxophone and organ over the past three decades. Polish repertoire lies at the heart of the duo’s programmes. Under the supervision of Włodzimierz Spodymek, he is currently writing a doctoral thesis on the technical and interpretative challenges posed by the saxophone works of Vincent David  and Christian Lauba.

Sarad has won dozens of prizes in national and international  competitions for solo performance, chamber music and composition. In 2018 he was one of the winners of the 42nd Artistic  Olympics in its Music History section. The following year, his  composition Przynęta Otchłani was selected for the Music of Our  Time programme; it received its world premiere at the Krzysztof  Penderecki European Centre for Music in Lusławice in June 2021. In 2021 and again in 2022, he received a Minister of Culture  and National Heritage scholarship for students with outstanding artistic achievements. Further distinctions include a Young  Poland scholarship in 2022 and Rector’s scholarships for the highest-achieving students of the Bydgoszcz Academy of Music in  2018–22.