MA Jan Paweł Przegendza

Composer, organist, improviser and avid researcher of the possibilities of musical hearing. He is the author of several dozen solo, chamber, choral and orchestral works. His works have been performed in Poland and abroad, including at the Musica Polonica Nova 2024 festival at the National Forum of Music in Wrocław (‘Something new’ for MIDI organ and electronics), at the Akademie für Neue Musik 2023 in Lucerne (‘Movement’ for chamber orchestra, HSLU Lucerne), at the ‘Great Premieres’ concert at the Silesian Philharmonic as part of the jubilee edition of the International H.M. Górecki Days 2022 (the piece ‘Fanfara Śląska’, Silesian Philharmonic Orchestra), at the Gdańsk Night of Museums 2022 (the piece ‘Monotony’ for solo carillon), as part of the 13th Fryderyk Chopin Birthday Festival in Warsaw 2022 (work “mPhasis” for electric guitar trio). His work ‘ToccatAria’ for baroque violin, harpsichord and positive organ was released in 2021 by Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne.

He is a laureate of the Leoš Janáček GENERACE International Composition Competition 2021 (2nd prize), the Fide et Amore International Composition Competition 2020 (honourable mention), the Tadeusz Baird Young Composers Competition 2020 (finalist with distinction), the International Composition Competition ‘Duets with Harp’ 2019 (2nd prize), and the Tadeusz Ochlewski National Composition Competition 2019 (2nd prize). In addition, he has been successful in such listening competitions as: Intercollegiate Ear Training Competition at the Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk 2022 (1st prize), International Solfège Competition in Ljubljana 2019 (2nd prize), the mYear Festival of Musical Imagination at the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław 2018 (1st prize).

He has participated in numerous composition courses and masterclasses. These include the Akademie für Neue Musik (PER-FORM) in collaboration with the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts under the direction of Prof. Agata Zubel, Prof. Szymon Bywalec and Nanine Linning; the SYNTHETIS International Composition Courses in Radziejowice under the direction of Zygmunt Krauze and Paweł Mykietyn, and master classes in composition as part of the Warsaw Autumn Festival (with Elżbieta Sikora, among others).

He is a graduate of the composition class of Dr. Hab. Michał Moc, Prof. AMKL (diploma with honours, 2023) and the organ class of Dr. Hab. Piotr Rojek, Prof. AMKL (diploma with honours, 2020) at the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław. In addition, he studied organ with Prof. Julian Gembalski at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice and Orgel-konzertfach with Prof. Martin Haselböck at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (MDW Wien).

As an organist, he has performed in Poland and abroad at festivals such as Musica Polonica Nova 2024 (MIDI organ), ‘in Bachs Fußstapfen’ in Sangerhausen (Germany), Zagłębiowski Organ Festival, Silesian Bach Festival, Broumov/Wambierzyce Young Organists' Review, Pax et Bonum Per Musicam in Wrocław, and Summer Organ Concerts at the former Cistercian abbey in Krzeszów. He has performed organ improvisations at the New Music Forum in Wrocław and Radio Wrocław as part of the WROrgany project, which aims to popularise organ instruments in Wrocław on the internet.

He is currently associated with the Department of Ear Training and Musical Imagination at his alma mater. He is also actively involved in ear training in his individual work. The project he co-created, dodekafonia.pl, was developed as part of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage's ‘Culture on the Web’ programme and was recognised on the government website CEA in the ‘online teaching materials’ section.

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