Przemysław Scheller is the winner of the 9th International Composers Competition New Note 2020 in Samobor (Croatia).
His composition The Little Match Girl for string orchestra was selected as the best of the 30 submitted works from around the world. This is the only prize awarded. The winning composition will be performed by the Esperanza Ensemble chamber orchestra during the Samobor Music Festival 2021. The Little Match Girl was composed in 2019 and premiered by the AUKSO Chamber Orchestra of the City of Tychy conducted by Marek Moś during the Festival of Premieres organised by the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice.
Przemysław Scheller is a composer from Gliwice, a graduate of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice and Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et Danse de Lyon in France. In 2018 he received the Doctor of Arts degree. Currently he works as an assistant professor at the University of Silesia in Katowice and teaches electronic music at his alma mater.