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composer, music theorist and teacher; b. 12th May 1946 in Kraków. In 1965-70 he studied composition and theory of music with Bogusław Schaeffer at the State Higher School of Music in Kraków. In 1978 he received a 2-month scholarship from the French Government in Paris, where he attended courses in electroacoustic composition with Groupe de Recherche Musicales (GRM) at the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique / Musique at Radio France.

Since 1972 he lectures at the Academy of Music in Kraków, from 2002 as professor of composition. He also teaches composition courses at the Summer Music Academy. He is a member of the Group for Music Analysis and Interpretation of the Kraków Academy of Music. From 1976 to 1979 he taught courses in electronic music at the Young Musicians for the Young City festival in Stalowa Wola (festival director – Krzysztof Droba).

Among his students are composition graduates: Michał Jakub Papara, Çınar Timur (Turkey), Wassim Ibrahim (Syria), Dawid Kusz OP, as well as PhD holders: Mateusz Bień, Emil Bernard Wojtacki and Renata Stivrina (Latvia).

For many years he collaborated with the Studio of Animated Films in Kraków. He co-founded the Słowacki Spatial Theatre Music Studio in Kraków, where in the years 1991 to 1998 he directed the Department of Music and Sound Implementation.

He received a number of awards and honourable mentions at composition competitions, including the 2nd prize (1st was not awarded) at the Youth Competition of the Polish Composers' Union (1971) for Spatial Sequences for chamber orchestra (1971), the 3rd prize at the International Composition Competition for an Organ Work in Szczecin (1973) for Grave-ap for organ (1973), an honourable mention at the 7th Concours International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges, Frane (1979) for Subtitle-Euridice's Dream for tape (1978), and awards for his music for films: Automobil at the Festival of Films for Children in Poznań (1988) and Metamorfozy at the International Short Film Festival in Kraków (1989). He is the hero of a documentary film by Jerzy Ridan Józef Rychlik — composer (1993).

He was a member of the jury of composition competitions, including the Tarnów Culture Center Composition Competition (1993, 1994) and the Film and Music Competition at the OFAFA Animated Film Festival in Kraków (1995).

His works have been performed at many contemporary music festivals, including Warsaw Autumn, Poznań Music Spring, and the International Society of Contemporary Music Festival. In 2003 he rceived a creative scholarship of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage to write an orchestral work and in 2018 his Oktet was commissioned by the Polish Composers' Union in the "Composing Commissions" programme run by the Institute of Music and Dance.

He is an ordinary member of the Polish Composers' Union. In the eighties, for several terms, he was the Secretary of the Kraków Branch of the Polish Composers' Union.

For his activities he was awarded the Medal of the National Education Commission‎, granted by the Minister of National Education (2005), the Gold Medal for Long Service, granted by the President of the Republic of Poland Lech Kaczyński (2008), and the Bronze Medal for Merit to Culture, granted by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage Piotr Gliński (2016).

updated: 2020 (ac)

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