Piotr Klimek

tel.: 660 066 960
piotr.klimek@teatranimacji.pl

 Composer, lecturer, music producer.

Graduate of the Royal Conservatoire The Hague (Composition class taught by Gilius van Bergeijk and Diderik Haakma Wagenaar - 1997) and the Academy of Music in Poznań (Composition class taught by Grażyna Pstrokońska-Navratil). He received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in composition in 2003 (AMU in Poznan). He received additional mastery training from prof. Marek Jasinski and prof. Włodzimierz Kotoński.

Since 1998, he has taught music classes at the University of Szczecin and the Academy of Art in Szczecin. Guest lecturer in composition at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague in 2003 and at the Zurich University of the Arts in 2009. He also collaborates with the Theater Academies in Warszawa and Kraków. Music consultant for cultural institutions in Szczecin. Director of the Center for Promotion and Development at the Academy of Art in Szczecin from 2010 to 2011, and in 2012 Vice-Rector for Artistic Affairs and Foreign Cooperation at the Academy. Since 2017, he has held the position of director of the Animation Theater in Poznań. Received scholarships from the Szczecin Friends Society, Burgemeester van Kolfschotenfonds, the Batory Foundation, Stiftung Kulturfonds Berlin and Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst. He composes symphonic, choral, chamber and electronic music. He has been strongly involved with the world of theater since 1991, having written music for more than 200 stage productions in Poland and abroad. He creates installations and sound artifacts and participates in projects that blend together different artistic fields. He is also piloting his original experimental music education program for the hearing-impaired.