EDUCATION / DEGREES AND SCIENTIFIC TITLES
Magister (2006; The Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice) based on the composition Island of Hazes and Gales for mixed choir and symphony orchestra LINK; thesis supervisor: Prof. Aleksander Lasoń
Master of Arts (2008; University of Louisville, School of Music) based on the chamber opera Sudden Rain for soloists, choir and chamber orchestra (libretto: Anna Konieczna-Purchała) LINK; thesis supervisor: Steve Rouse, PhD
PhD (2010; The Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice) based on the composition The King of the Cosmos Disappears. Concerto for orchestra, threads and piano LINK; thesis supervisor: Prof. Aleksander Lasoń; reviewers: Prof. Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil, Prof. Zbigniew Bujarski
Habilitation (2016; The Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice) based on the opera entitled Space Opera for soloists, choir and orchestra (libretto: Georgi Gospodinov) LINK; reviewers: Prof. Krystian Kiełb, Prof. Krzysztof Knittel, Prof. Krzysztof Olczak
Professor (2022; The Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice); reviewers: prof. Krzysztof Baculewski, prof. Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil, prof. Lidia Rydlewicz-Zielińska, prof. Anna Zawadzka-Gołosz, prof. Zygmunt Krauze
ACADEMIC WORK
Since 2008, he has been and employee of the Department of Composition and Theory of Music at the Katowice Academy of Music (until 2010 as an assistant, until 2018 as an assistant professor, and at this time, as professor of the Academy of Music). LINK
Between 2020-2024, he was head of the Department of Composition and Music Theory.
He has been teaching a composition class since 2016.
GRADUATES:
Marcin Chrostek (Bachelor’s degree 2020)
Dominik Niedźwiecki (Bachelor’s degree 2020/ Master's 2024)
Wojciech Laskowski (Bachelor’s degree 2021/ Master's 2023)
Marcin Wójcik (Bachelor's degree 2022)CURRENT STUDENTS:
Undergraduate:
Michał Gaj
Adrian Widuch
Maksymilian Żmuda
Graduate:
Monika Kozakiewicz
Paweł Kruczek
Other subjects taught:
Orchestration (2008–2023): history of orchestration; orchestration of selected examples of classical and contemporary literature for various instrumental and vocal-instrumental set-ups, homogeneous and mixed
Contemporary score (2012–2023): trends and selected problems of 20th and 21st century music and their influence on score notation; selected major works of the last decade
History of opera – contemporary opera (2018–2023): problems in opera today; selected problems in contemporary drama; selected major works of the last decade
Instrumentation (2018-2021): construction and properties of classical musical instruments; introduction to playing techniques
Computer score editing (2013-2016): overview of current software; basic operation of MuseScore and Finale; basic and advanced operation of Sibelius