Nikolet Burzyńska

Nikolet Burzyńska is a Polish composer. She is the co-author of Pianostasy for 21 pianos and symphonic orchestra performed by Kalisz Philharmonic. Her music has been performed by such artists as Musiques Nouvelles, New Music Orchestra, Hilary Hahn, Miranda Cuckson, Polish Radio Orchestra and Szymon Bywalec, Orkest de ereprijs and Rob Vermeulen, Voix de Strass, Kalisz Philharmonic, Silesian Philharmonic and Massimiliano Caldi.

Nikolet’s compositions have been performed at IRCAM (salle Varèse), Palais du Rhin, the Warsaw Chamber Opera, Seoul Computer Music Festival, Festival Internacional Compositores de Hoje in Brasil, La semaine du son in France, Next in Austria, the Young Composers Meeting of Holland, Warsaw Autumn, and Druskomanija in Lithuania, as well as broadcast on WQXR, WEFT, Accent 4, Polish Radio Programme 1.

Burzyńska received the 27 pieces: Hilary Hahn Encores prize, as well as prizes from the Tactus Young Composers Forum, the Sorodha Composition Competition, the Competition for the 90th anniversary of the III Silesian Revolt for her piece Silesian Pyromagma for choir and orchestra, and the 1st International Composition Competition, Patri Patriae, for her work Flamma for female choir and orchestra.

During her studies at Fryderyk Chopin University of Music, and Strasbourg Conservatory as well as in her auxiliary course-work Burzyńska worked with composers including Mark Andre, Louis Andriessen, Jeroen D’hoe, Jung Hee Choi, Marcin Błażewicz, Stanisław Moryto, Tadeusz Wielecki, Martijn Padding, Richard Ayres. Additionally, she has been granted the Prime Minister Scholarship, and the Marshal of the Silesian Voivodeship Scholarship.