Marek Chołoniewski

Composer. Since 1984, he has been performing, conducting courses, and giving lectures on computer music in many countries across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Since 1993, he has been the initiator and artistic director of the Audio Art International Festival and the International Workshops of Contemporary Music Krakow/Stuttgart (with Matthias Hermann).

He is the head of the Audiosphere Studio at the Department of Art of the Faculty of Intermedia at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. He is the creator of instrumental, electroacoustic, and audiovisual compositions, as well as music for theater, film, radio, and TV. He is also the author and coordinator of spatial and internet-based projects: GlobalMix, Artist Ship, and GPS-Art. In 2006, he initiated and realized (together with Łukasz Szałankiewicz and Dickson Dee) a recurring project exchange of Polish/Chinese Sound Art in China/Poland.

In 2005, he founded and became the president of the Polish Association of Electroacoustic Music (a member of CIME in Bourges). From 2008 he served as secretary, and since 2011 as president of the International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music CIME / ICEM.

Between 1993 and 1999, he was the artistic director of the Internationale Akademie für Neue Komposition und Audio Art in Schwaz (Austria).

He graduated from the Academy of Music in Krakow, specializing in organ playing (under Leszek Werner), music theory and composition (under Bogusław Schaeffer), and electronic music (under J. Patkowski).

Since 1976, he has worked at the Studio of Electroacoustic Music at the Academy of Music in Krakow, and since 2000, as its director. In 1977, he founded and currently leads the Muzyka Centrum Art Association, mainly engaged in concert activities.

In 2003, he was the initiator of the Audio Art Festival in Seoul (together with Jeajoon Ryu), as well as the co-creator and coordinator of projects implemented within the programs supported by the European Commission: Bridges (together with Krzysztof Kwiatkowski), Ensemble Spiel (with Stephan Meier / Musik für Heute, Hanover), European Course for Musical Composition and Technologies (IRCAM, Paris), Integra (Birmingham Conservatory), and European Modern Orchestra (with Krzysztof Kwiatkowski).