Marcel Chyrzyński - NOSPR

Obtained his Master’s degree (with honours) from the Academy of Music in Kraków in 1995, where he studied composition in the class of Professor Marek Stachowski, orchestration in the class of Professor Krzysztof Penderecki, and computer music in the class of Professor Marek Chołoniewski, as well as with Fulbright scholars Richard Boulanger, Cindy McTee and Rodney Oaks. He perfected his compositional skills at many courses both in Poland and abroad, where he worked under the guidance of such prominent composers as Paul Patterson, Sylvano Bussotti, Claude Lefebvre, Joji Yuasa, Bogusław Schaeffer, Lidia Zielińska, and Hanna Kulenty.  
In 1998, he was awarded a doctorate in composition and got his habilitation in 2010. In the years 2014–2019, he has been the head of the Institute of Composition, Conducting and Music Theory at the Academy of Music in Kraków. Since December 2020, he has been employed as a professor at his alma mater. On February 22, 2021, the President of the Republic of Poland awarded him the title of professor. 

He has been a visiting professor in Mexico (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Mexico City), South Africa (University of Pretoria, University of Cape Town, University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg), South Korea (Yeungnam University in Daegu, Inje University in Gimhae), Slovakia (Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava) and the United States (University of Southern California in Los Angeles, New York Conservatory of Music) and Poland (Institute of Musicology of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz), as well as at the Takefu International Composition Workshop in Japan and Seoul International Music Festival in South Korea. 

He has won many awards at various composition competitions, such as the 1st prize for Ferragosto per tromba, pianoforte e batteria at the Tadeusz Baird Composition Competition for Young Composers in Warsaw (1997). His Haiku No. 3 for solo flute received a distinction of the National Flute Association (USA) in the Newly Published Music Competition (2021). 
Since 1995, he has been a member of the Polish Composers’ Union and in the years 2005–2007, 2009–2011 and 2013–2025, he was a member of the Main Board of PCU (in the 2023–2025 term as vice-president). In 2005, he also became a member of the Polish Society for Electroacoustic Music. Since 2014, he has been a general and artistic director of the Krakow International Festival of Composers. Since 2016, he has been a president of the Krakow Branch of the Polish Composers’ Union. 

His works have been performed in most European countries, as well as in Georgia, Armenia, Iran, Japan, South Korea, China, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Mexico, Brazil, Panama, USA, and Canada. His compositions are published by PWM and Edition Ferrimontana – Frankfurt; they appeared on 25 CD albums (by DUX, ZPR Records, Acte Préalable, Instytut Sztuki, PWM-DUX, Polskie Radio, AM in Krakow, Phasma-Music, PGMaudio, PWM Edition, Orpheus Classical and Requiem Records) and on Polish Television and Korean KBS; they were also featured by many radio broadcasts in Poland, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, Finland, Estonia and Australia.