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PIOTR SZEWCZYK (pyo-ter shef-chick), Polish-American violinist and composer has been a member of the Jacksonville Symphony first violin section since 2007. Previously, he was a fellow at the New World Symphony in Miami Beach where he was a rotating concertmaster and a winner of Concerto Competition. He is also a violinist and composer-in-residence of the Bold City Contemporary Ensemble and the creator of the Violin Futura Project. He is a winner of FSU Doctoral Concerto Competition and FSU Carnegie Hall Recital Competition. As a composer, Szewczyk has received awards from The Progressive Classical Music Award, The American Prize, Project Trio Competition, Flute New Music Consortium Competition, Shuffle Concert Competition, American Modern Ensemble, Rapido! Composition Contest, Third Millennium Ensemble, American Composers Forum, Society of Composers, Jacksonville Symphony Fresh Ink Competition, and others. Dr. Szewczyk holds the degrees of D.M. from Florida State University, B.M. and double M.M. in violin and composition from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
PIOTR SZEWCZYK (pyo-ter shef-chick), Polish-American violinist and composer has been a member of the Jacksonville Symphony first violin section since 2007. Previously, he was a fellow at the New World Symphony in Miami Beach where he was a rotating concertmaster and a winner of Concerto Competition. He is also a violinist and composer-in-residence of the Bold City Contemporary Ensemble and the creator of the Violin Futura Project. He is a winner of FSU Doctoral Concerto Competition and FSU Carnegie Hall Recital Competition. As a composer, Szewczyk has received awards from The Progressive Classical Music Award, The American Prize, Project Trio Competition, Flute New Music Consortium Competition, Shuffle Concert Competition, American Modern Ensemble, Rapido! Composition Contest, Third Millennium Ensemble, American Composers Forum, Society of Composers, Jacksonville Symphony Fresh Ink Competition, and others. Dr. Szewczyk holds the degrees of D.M. from Florida State University, B.M. and double M.M. in violin and composition from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
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PIOTR SZEWCZYK (pyo-ter shef-chick), Polish-American violinist and composer has been a member of the Jacksonville Symphony first violin section since 2007. Previously, he was a fellow at the New World Symphony in Miami Beach where he was a rotating concertmaster and a winner of Concerto Competition. He is currently a violinist and composer-in-residence of the Bold City Contemporary Ensemble and the creator of the Violin Futura Project. He is a winner of FSU Doctoral Concerto Competition and FSU Carnegie Hall Recital Competition.
As a composer, Szewczyk has received awards from The Progressive Classical Music Award, The American Prize, Project Trio Competition, Flute New Music Consortium Competition, Shuffle Concert Competition, American Modern Ensemble, Rapido! Composition Contest, Third Millennium Ensemble, American Composers Forum, Society of Composers, Jacksonville Symphony Fresh Ink Competition, and others.
His music was featured multiple times on NPR Performance Today, and has been performed by Atlanta Chamber Players, Trio Solis, Alias Ensemble, Dover Quartet, Carpe Diem String Quartet, Vega Quartet, Sybarite 5, Juventas Ensemble, New Music Raleigh, UF New Music Ensemble, New World Symphony, Jacksonville Symphony, FSU, UNF and CCM College Orchestras and at Eastern Music Festival, Ravinia Festival, Colorado Music Festival, St. Augustine Music Festival, University of Arizona, SCI Conference at Western Michigan University, ClarinetFest 2017, University of Miami Frost School of Music, La Folle Journee Festival in Warsaw, Poland, and others.
He was the Composer-In-Residence at the Florida Chamber Music Project in 2013-14, and is currently Resident Composer with the Bold City Contemporary Ensemble. He has received commissions from the St. Augustine Music Festival, University of North Florida, University of Florida, Jacksonville University Wind Ensemble, San Marco Chamber Music Society, University of Cincinnati Philharmonia Orchestra under Mark Gibson, Dr. Guy Yehuda at Michigan State University, Buffet Crampon, Bowling Green State University, Atlanta Chamber Players, Jacksonville Symphony, Dr. Jackie Glazier at University of Arizona, Prof. Rick VanMatre at University of Cincinnati, and many others. His music was released on Ablaze, Navona, Mark, JB Records and others and is also available on Spotify, Amazon and other streaming services.
Dr. Szewczyk holds the degrees of D.M. from Florida State University, B.M. and double M.M. in violin and composition from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. He studied violin with Piotr Milewski, Kurt Sassmannshaus, Dorothy DeLay and Corinne Stillwell, and composition with Joel Hoffman, Michael Fiday, Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, Henry Gwiazda and Darrel Handel.
PIOTR SZEWCZYK (pyo-ter shef-chick), Polish-American violinist and composer has been a member of the Jacksonville Symphony first violin section since 2007. Previously, he was a fellow at the New World Symphony in Miami Beach where he was a rotating concertmaster and a winner of Concerto Competition. He is currently a violinist and composer-in-residence of the Bold City Contemporary Ensemble and the creator of the Violin Futura Project. He is a winner of FSU Doctoral Concerto Competition and FSU Carnegie Hall Recital Competition.
As a composer, Szewczyk has received awards from The Progressive Classical Music Award, The American Prize, Project Trio Competition, Flute New Music Consortium Competition, Shuffle Concert Competition, American Modern Ensemble, Rapido! Composition Contest, Third Millennium Ensemble, American Composers Forum, Society of Composers, Jacksonville Symphony Fresh Ink Competition, and others.
His music was featured multiple times on NPR Performance Today, and has been performed by Atlanta Chamber Players, Trio Solis, Alias Ensemble, Dover Quartet, Carpe Diem String Quartet, Vega Quartet, Sybarite 5, Juventas Ensemble, New Music Raleigh, UF New Music Ensemble, New World Symphony, Jacksonville Symphony, FSU, UNF and CCM College Orchestras and at Eastern Music Festival, Ravinia Festival, Colorado Music Festival, St. Augustine Music Festival, University of Arizona, SCI Conference at Western Michigan University, ClarinetFest 2017, University of Miami Frost School of Music, La Folle Journee Festival in Warsaw, Poland, and others.
He was the Composer-In-Residence at the Florida Chamber Music Project in 2013-14, and is currently Resident Composer with the Bold City Contemporary Ensemble. He has received commissions from the St. Augustine Music Festival, University of North Florida, University of Florida, Jacksonville University Wind Ensemble, San Marco Chamber Music Society, University of Cincinnati Philharmonia Orchestra under Mark Gibson, Dr. Guy Yehuda at Michigan State University, Buffet Crampon, Bowling Green State University, Atlanta Chamber Players, Jacksonville Symphony, Dr. Jackie Glazier at University of Arizona, Prof. Rick VanMatre at University of Cincinnati, and many others. His music was released on Ablaze, Navona, Mark, JB Records and others and is also available on Spotify, Amazon and other streaming services.
Dr. Szewczyk holds the degrees of D.M. from Florida State University, B.M. and double M.M. in violin and composition from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. He studied violin with Piotr Milewski, Kurt Sassmannshaus, Dorothy DeLay and Corinne Stillwell, and composition with Joel Hoffman, Michael Fiday, Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, Henry Gwiazda and Darrel Handel.