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composer, sound engineer; b. 29th October 1988 in Toruń. He began his music education at the age of six at the Karol Szymanowski Music School in Toruń. In the years 2007-2010, he pursued a bachelor's degree in theory of music, sound engineering and composition (with Professor Marek Jasiński, then with Professor Zbigniew Bargielski) at the Felix Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz. He received a master's degree in composition at the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz in Professor Marian Borkowski’s class and simultaneously in Film & TV Sound Engineering at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw in Professor Nikodem Wołk-Łaniewski's class.

In 2010, he was involved in the international project FABREC which was a cooperation between the Felix Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz, Universitatea de Arta şi Design (Cluj-Napoca, Romania) and Université de Toulouse Le Mirail (Touluse, France). He also took part in the Inter-University Multimedia Program (MSM), working with such artists as Krzysztof Knittel, Krzesimir Dębski, Edward Sielicki, Marek Chołoniewski, Cezary Duchnowski.

Jędrzej Rochecki received several prizes in composition competitions, including the 1st prize at the Marian Gordiejuk Composition Contest, the 2nd prize at the Academic Composer Competition for “Concerto grosso” in Bydgoszcz, the audience award for video-art Upstream at the Sound Screen Festival in Bydgoszcz.

Thanks to financial support from the Polish Institute of Music and Dance, in the season 2012/2013 he was a composer-in-residence of the Toruń Symphony Orchestra. His music has been presented at many events in Poland and abroad. He also performed as violinist and sound engineer at many concerts of contemporary music. In his compositions, he uses electronis, visual arts, sound design, etc. He cooperates with other artists in many fields, for example he creates soundtracks for animations, video-arts, installation arts, exhibitions, movies, etc.

Currently, he works as a sound director at the Municipal Cultural Center in Bydgoszcz and the Music Theater in Toruń. He also lectures at the  Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz.

updated: 2018 (ac)

The composer's website: http://www.rochecki.pl/

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