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Biographical details
Training
1976-1980 K. Szymanowski High School of Music, Warsaw (diploma in piano performance)
1980-1986 F. Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, M.A. in composition, studies with Włodzimierz Kotoński
1986-1988 Royal Conservatory of Music, The Hague, Holland, postgraduate studies in composition with Louis Andriessen
1983-1990 Participant in the International Courses for Young Composers, organized by the ISCM (Polish Section) in Kazimierz Dolny, Poland
1984, 1988 Participant in the International Courses of New Music in Darmstadt, Germany
Appointments
1992 Lecturer at the F. Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw
1995 Lecturer at the First International Courses for Young Composers
in Apeldoorn, Holland, organized by the Gaudeamus Foundation
1996 and 2000 Lecturer at the International Courses for Young
Composers, organized by the ISCM (Polish Section) in Radziejowice,
Poland
2001 Lecturer at the Seventh International Courses for Young
Composers in Apeldoorn, Holland, organized by the Gaudeamus Foundation
2005 Guest professor at the Conservatory of Music, Arnhem/Zwolle,
Holland
2007 Guest professor at the ESMUC, Music Academy, Barcelona
2013 Guest professor composition at Missouri State University, Springfield
(US)
2013 Guest professor composition at Birmingham Conservatoire
2015 - now Professor composition at Bydgoszcz Academy of Music
2016 Guest professor composition at Krakow Academy of Music
Fellowships
1990 Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), Berliner
Kunstlerprogramm
1993 – 2009 Grants from Fonds voor de Scheppende Toonkunst, Holland
2011 – 2015 Grants from The Performing Arts Fund NL
2013 – 2019 Grants from IMiT
Composer-in-residence
1999-2000 Composer-in-residence at Het Gelders Orkest in The
Netherlands
Guest lectures
1989 Sender Freies, Berlin, Germany
1989 Conservatory of Music, Rotterdam, Holland
1990 Academy of Music, Warsaw , Poland
1990 Conservatory of Music, Arnhem, Holland
1992 Conservatory of Music, Arnhem, Holland
1993 York University, York, England
1994 Odense and Kopenhagen, Denmark
1994 Munich Biennale, Munich, Germany
1996 Munich Biennale, Munich, Germany
1998 Long Beach, Los Angeles, USA
1998 Santa Monica, Los Angeles, USA
1998 University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
1998 Conservatory of Music, Münster, Germany
2001 Conservatory of Music, Budapest, Hungary
2002 Bavarian State Oper, Munich, Germany
2002 Musis Sacrum, Arnhem, Holland
2002 Conservatory of Music, Łódz, Poland
2002 Conservatory of Music, Amsterdam, Holland
2004 Other Minds Festival 10, San Francisco
2005 Soundstreams Canada, Toronto
2006 Schiermonnikoog Chamber Music Festival, Holland
2012 Meeting with Hanna Kulenty, Lokal Uzytkowy, Warsaw
2014 Gaida Festival, Vilnius, Lithuania
2016 NJO Muziekzomer – interview about the opera ‘The Mother of
Black-Winged Dreams’
2016 ‘Musique Surrealistique’. Lecture at Bydgoszcz Music, Academy
for the year opening
2017 Five lectures during a tour in Los Angeles (USA)
2018 Artistic Meeting and lecture with Hanna Kulenty at Glinka
Conservatorium, Nizhny Novgorod (RUS)
2018 Artistic meeting and lecture at Mozarteum University Salzburg
(AT)
2018 11 december. Artistic meeting, panel discussion at Dział
Edukacji Muzeum Fryderyka Chopina / Narodowy Instytut Fryderyka
Chopina
2019 UMiFC, Lecture for PhD students about my compositions
Jury Membership
1992 Member of the National Jury for the World Music Days of the
ISCM (Polish Section)
1995 Member of the Jury at the Munich Biennale (Opera Competition)
2002 Member of the Jury at the International Gaudeamus Music Week,
Amsterdam
2003 Member of the Jury at the Kazimierz Serocki 9th Int. Composers’
Competition, Warsaw
2004 Member of the Jury at the Sixth Edition of the International
New Chamber Opera Competition “Orpheus-Luciano Berio 2003-2004” in
Spoleto, Italy
2005 Member of the Jury at the 9th International Competition of
Contemporary Chamber Music in Cracow
2007 Member of the Jury at the 11th International Competition of
Contemporary Chamber Music in Cracow
2017 58th Tadeusz Baird Competition for Young Composers, June
2017, Warsaw
2017 Competition in Composition of the International Fribourg
Festival of Sacred Music, (FIMS) Switzerland - 13th edition. November
2017
2018 III Międzynarodowy Konkurs Kompozytorski im. Ignacego Jana
Paderewskiego. Organized by Katedra Teorii Muzyki i Kompozycji
Akademii Muzycznej imienia Feliksa Nowowiejskiego w Bydgoszczy.
Decmebre 2018
2019 60th Tadeusz Baird Competition for Young Composers, organized
by Związek Kompozytorów Polskich – ZKP (Union of Polish Composers).
June 2019, Warsaw
2019 Międzynarodowy Konkurs Kompozytorski im. Stanisława Moniuszki
na mikrooperę – „12 minut dla Moniuszki”. December 2019
Donated manuscripts
In September 2000 Hanna Kulenty donated three of her scores to Polish Music Center (University of Southern California). For this occassion Maja Trochimczyk came over from Los Angeles to officially recieve the manuscripts during an event at the Polish Composers' Union in Warsaw.
AAA tre, for viola, cello and double bass (1988. Manuscript score in black ink, 13 pages on music paper of 36 staves, prepared for facsimile edition by PWM.
Trigon, for orchestra (1989). Manuscript score in black ink, 56 pages, on music paper of 36 staves, prepared for facsimile edition by PWM.
Perpetuus, for chamber orchestra (1989). Manuscript score in black ink, 44 pages, on music paper of 36 staves, prepared for facsimile edition by PWM.
