Composer profile - Beniamin Baczewski

BENIAMIN BACZEWSKI

Beniamin Baczewski, born on the 14th of May 1991 in Gdańsk, is a composer, arranger, and multi-instrumentalist.

A graduate of the Music Academy in Gdańsk, specialising in clarinet and composition, he has participated in national and international composition competitions. Finalist of the Film Music Festival Young Talent Award 2017, where he participated in the master courses with such composers as Howard Shore, Trevor Morris, Richard Bellis, Sean Callery, and Abel Korzeniowski.

He has been awarded the winner of 14 prestigious composition competitions, including international ones. He secured 1st place for the soundtrack to the silent film “Le Spectre Rouge” at the 20th International Composition Competition “2 Agosto” in Bologna in 2014. In the same year, he won 1st place for the song “My Homeland” at the EU Play competition in Genoa. He has won 12 scholarship programs, among which the scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage scholarship of the Minister of Science and Higher Education for the outstanding artistic achievements, as well as the Marshal of the Pomeranian Voivodeship, winner of the Audience Prize in the poll of the Young Authors in Culture in 2015.

Beniamin’s compositions also reached audiences in Italy, Portugal, Belgium, Lithuania, Belarus, and Ukraine. As an arranger, he has collaborated with several European opera houses and TV channels.

Author of music for 14 theatre performances (e.g., Ismeria, Mirages, Imago, Mayday 2). He also writes music for films and media (e.g. Way Too American Film, Hero Tale, Football Team). His compositions can be found on 12 CDs (e.g. Clarinet Concert on A Tribute to Benny Goodman, Fractus Sextet, Baltic Legends, Tobijahu, Ballads & Romances, Songs of the wind and the rain).

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