Peszat, Piotr

Born in 1990, composer, sound artist and author of installations. He studied composition with Krzysztof Meyer at the Music Academy in Cracow and Simon Steen-Andersen at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus. In October 2014 he took up doctoral studies with Magdalena Długosz at Cracow’s Music Academy.

His music has been featured at numerous workshops and festivals such as Ostrava Days (2011), Nature Meets Music in Görlitz (2011–12), John Cage Birth Centenary Conference (Lublin 2012), Cracow Composers’ International Music Days (2011), GeoSounds, as a composition tutor (2012–14), Pulsar Festival (2014, 2015), RAMA Festival in Aarhus (2014, 2015), Wawel at Dusk (2014), Aarhus Jazz Festival (2014), International Summer Courses for Composers in Radziejowice (2014), Lucerne Festival (2014, 2015), Warsaw Autumn and Little Warsaw Autumn (2014), Composer Collider, workshops with Musikfabrik (2014), China Day Music Festival (2014), PanoRAMA Festival (2015), Klassenarbeit, workshops with ensemble recherche (2014), the MCI Summer Campus (2015), Europäisches Forum Alpbach (2015), Ung Nordisk Musik Festival (2015), and Musica Polonica Nova (2016).

Piotr Peszat won the joint 2nd Prize in the Composer’s Concert of the Year competition (Katowice 2011), was finalist of the Tadeusz Baird Competition for Young Composers (Warsaw 2013), winner of the Roche Young Commissions (Lucerne 2013; the award was a commission for a symphony work performed during the 77th Lucerne Festival in 2015), and winner of the MEETINGS competition in Copenhagen (2014). In December 2014 with visual artist Katarzyna Feiglewicz he won the competition for an artistic residence in Fljótstunga, Iceland, where they created the installation Inside Earth Outside.

Selected works: Los Armstrong Lakers for 11 brass instruments and sampler (2016), Ririchiyo for chamber ensemble and sampler (2015), Peszat’s Got Talent for chamber ensemble, sampler, video and stroboscope (2015), Computer Chronicles for wind octet (2015), Duck and Cover for cello and video (2015), Pensées étranglées for symphony orchestra (2014), Interiør i strandgade for chamber ensemble (version for symphony orchestra, 2014), ...or this dream people call human life for sampler, percussion, electric guitar and string orchestra (2014), Birth of Venus for cello and any string instrument (2014), The Message for two pianos, video and electronics (2016).