Rożynek, Teoniki

Born in 1991 in Cracow, she currently lives in Warsaw where she is studying at the Fryderyk Chopin Music University in the composition class of Krzysztof Baculewski. She has participated in composition courses and masterclasses, notably at Warsaw Autumn (2017), Synthetis in Radziejowice (2017), and the Donaueschinger Musiktage 2016). 

She writes instrumental, electroacoustic, and electronic music. Her works have been presented notably during fringe events of the Warsaw Autumn Festival (2016 and 2017), a concert organised in Cracow in cooperation with the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne (2016), KRA – Kravín Rural Arts / Hranice u Malce(2016), Musica Electronica Nova festival in Wrocław (2017), Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music (2017), and PLATO in Ostrava (2018). 

She has participated in performances, film productions, and theatre shows. In 2017, she composed music for Hymn to Love directed by Marta Górnicka at the Polski Theatre in Poznań; the music was awarded at the Divine Comedy Festival in Cracow. She has also composed the soundtrack for the full-length film Tower. A Bright Day directed by Jagoda Szelc (multiaward winner at the Polish Feature Film Festival in Gdynia and O Camera International Independent Cinema Festival in Cracow). For her music for the stage play November directed by Tomasz Węgorzewski (Aleksander Fredro Theatre in Gniezno), she was commended by the Artistic Committee of the Live Classic Festival. She has also worked with Katarzyna Kozyra for her latest performance, Chorus from the Ark of Covenant in Uppsala. 

Selected works: bilocation for amplified piano, two pianists and sampler (2015), wall for amplified violin, amplified cello and electronics (2015), T.R.I.P. for tape (2015), halocline II for two accordions, bass accordion and sampler (2016), nox for amplified string orchestra (2016), string quartet for prepared and amplified string quartet (2016), multiple 1 for amplified contrabass clarinet, percussion, piano and violin (2017), can you hear colors? for amplified bass flute, amplified double bass and electronics (with Monika Szpyrka, 2017), the most satisfying music for two percussionists and electronics (2017), minimal surfaces 1.0 for amplified violin, amplified cello and chamber ensemble (2017), bol for flute, accordion, percussion, electronics and video (2017), deep–frozen_2/17 for accordion, viola and electronics (2017), untonefor tape (2017), conveyor belt for bass clarinet, piano, sampler, violin and cello (2018), Palinopsia for electronics (2018).