Teoniki Rożynek (PL)
Born in 1991 in Kraków, she is a composer currently based in Warsaw. She creates instrumental, electroacoustic, and electronic music, and performs on violin, electronics, and instruments made from waste materials. Her works have been presented at numerous festivals, including Warsaw Autumn, Musica Electronica Nova, Sacrum Profanum, Unsound, Containerklang (Cologne), and the Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music.
She has collaborated on film productions such as Wieża. Jasny dzień (dir. Jagoda Szelc), Sole (dir. Carlo Sironi), and Prime Time (dir. Jakub Piątek), as well as theatre productions including Hymn to Love (dir. Marta Górnicka, awarded Best Music at the 10th Boska Komedia Festival) and November (dir. Tomasz Węgorzewski, distinction at the 3rd Klasyka Żywa Festival). She has also composed for television theatre productions such as The Weak (dir. A. Biedrzycki, Best Music award at Teatroteka Fest 2019) and performance works including Chorus from “The Ark of Covenant” by Katarzyna Kozyra.
She is a graduate of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, where she studied composition in the class of Krzysztof Baculewski.