Jakub Polaczyk - Poland

Jakub Polaczyk is a young polish composer, born in 1983 in Cracow, where he graduated with honors from the piano performance studio of I. Rolanowsaka at the W. Żeleński Level II Music School (2005) and musicology at the Jagiellonian University - master diploma (2008) under superviosn of Małgorzata Woźna-Stankiewicz. Presently studies composition with Marcel Chyrzński, orchestration with Krzystof Penderecki and computer music with Marek Chołoniewski at the Academy of Music in Cracow. In 2008/2009 semester he studied on a scholarship from Socrates-Erasmus program in the Royal Conseravtory of Music in Brussels, where he hone his compositional techniques in the class of Jan van Landeghem. He consultated his works with: Marta Ptaszyńska, Krzysztof Penderecki, Per Norgard, Sukhi Kang, Peter Swimmen, Rebecca Sanunders, Christian Wolff, Richard Ayres and Bart Bouckaert. He has won many prizes in the composers’ competitions including: 1st pize for Combinations on Olympus for Solo Trombone in the 5th PWM T. Ochlewski Composition Competition in 2007 in Cracow, 1st pirze for Oratio Fatima for mixed choir in the John Paul II Days Composition Comeptition 2008 in Cracow, Special Award for Jam.exe for string orchestra in the Interational Compostion Competiton in Jeju in South Korea (2009). www.jakub.polaczy.com
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