Kuba Krzewiński

In his works, Kuba Krzewiński focuses on the sense of touch as the origin of sound, as the axis of the performer-instrument relationship and as a medium of social communication. Through the use of performative means, multimedia and tactile references, Krzewinski offers the audience new ways of approaching music and the body.

Krzewiński was born in 1988, graduated with distinction from the Henryk Wieniawski School of Music in Łódź in violin. He studied composition at the Academy of Music in Łódź, Royal Conservatoire The Hague and at the Hochschule für Musik Dresden. His composition professors were Zygmunt Krauze, Krzysztof Knittel, Yannis Kyriakides, Mayke Nas, Manos Tsangaris and Mark Andre.

Important recent collaborators include: Ensemble Musikfabrik, Ensemble Garage, Ensemble KNM Berlin, hand werk, Nemø ensemble, Hashtag Ensemble, Ensemble Kompopolex, Anna Kwiatkowska/Mikołaj Pałosz duo. His pieces and installations have been shown at many festivals and concerts in countries in Europe and Asia.

Krzewiński received various scholarships and prizes, for instance the Förderpreis für junge Komponist/innen from the Sächsischer Musikbund in 2019. In 2018 he was nominated as one of the ten most promising young Polish composers by Culture.pl. In 2019 a DVD with his recent chamber pieces was published on Bôłt Records in Poland. In September 2024 a premiere of the show “Ep” took place in TR Warszawa, which he co-directed with Agnieszka Jakimiak and composed for.

He collaborates with audiovisual artist Aleksandra Chciuk. Together they created the concert/installation “Black of Granule” for two performers, a piano and one listener during Musica Privata in Łódź in 2016 and at the Instalakcje festival in Warsaw in 2018. They also created “Weave-Machine”, an audio performance commissioned for the opening of the Triennial of Textile at the Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź.

Krzewiński created a series of ameublement de musique objects, which have so far been presented in the form of installations or concerts in Poland, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany, including a piece commissioned by Ensemble Musikfabrik.

He is a curator of Musica Privata festival in Łódź and Ad Libitum festival in Warsaw.