Recently awarded a postgraduate diploma in composition from the Royal Flemish Conservatory in Antwerp, Szymon Brzóska trained under the baton of Luc Van Hove. He attended workshops directed by Marek Stachowski, Tapio Tuomela, Remigijus Merkelys, Toivo Tulev and Peteris Plakidis between 2000 and 2004.

This young Polish composer, who also holds a Master in Arts diploma from the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Music Academy in Poznan (where Miroslaw Bukowski was his professor), has already attracted considerable attention among professionals of classical and contemporary music: his works have been performed in Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Norway and Poland; in 2003, his Antiphona Beatae Mariae Virginis was chosen by the Polish chamber choir Schola Cantorum Gedanensis for their concert at the Festival of Sacred Music Maria Auxilium Christianorum in Rumia; and in 2004, he won both the 3rd prize at the Adam Didur Composition Competiton in Sanok (Poland) for Czarna róza (The Black Rose), song for tenor and piano with words by Zbigniew Herbert and the 2nd prize in the Composition Competition for Choral Passion Song in Bydgoszcz (Poland) for Vexilla Regis Prodeunt.

In 2006, his 6 miniatures for cello and piano was chosen for the workshop with the prestigious Belgian Prometheus Ensemble and he also counted among the selected few at the competition for composition of the music @venture 2007 festival in Antwerp, which commissioned him to create a piece for the prestigious Belgian ensemble Solisti del Vento to be premiered in October during the 2007 edition of the festival.

Szymon Brzóska is particularly interested in the synergy between music and other arts, such as contemporary dance, theatre and cinema. He has participated in soundtracks for several film and theatre projects in Poland, and his compositions Marche Funèbre and Sordes (accompanying two dance pieces choreographed by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui) will soon be heard in cinema halls across Europe with the release of the French film Le bruit des gens autour, directed by Diastème and produced by Cipango Productions.

Currently Szymon is working on the score for the new piece choreographed by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, with the collaboration with Antony Gormley and Monks from the Shaolin Temple. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.