COMPOSER

"whimsical"     Sunday Arts, Thirteen.org 1/27/2010

        "exciting "
"exquisite... hauntingly beautiful"
                                                The Post and Courier, Charleston, South Carolina

"wonderfully polished ... a worthy winner"
                                                Pierre Ruhe, ArtsCriticATL.com Oct 18, 2010

"… full of fierce rhythms ... "
                                    Philip A. Metzger , Lehigh Valley Music

" ... brooding and dramatic ... "
                                                                                            CriticalMiami.com

American Super-group SYBARITE 5 performs Piotr Szewczyk's The Rebel for String Quintet in their promo video and live concert at Aspen Music Festival below. Recording of The Rebel is available for sale on Amazon as part of their album Disturbing the Silence

BELOW: Interview with Paula Piece, Artistic Director of Atlanta Chamber Player after winning South Eastern region of Rapido! Competition

COMPOSITION AWARDS
2011, Winner, Third Millennium Ensemble Composition Contest
2010, SE WINNER Rapido! Composition Contest by Atlanta Chamber Players
2009, Winner, American Composers Forum Competition - Los Angeles
2009, Winner, Society of Composers Inc. Competition
2008, Winner - Jacksonville Symphony’s Fresh Ink – Florida Composers’ Competition
2008, Finalist, British Trombone Society Composition Competition
2007, Honorable Mention, The Fauxharmonic Orchestra Adagio Composition Contest
2005, Winner, Vox Novus 60x60 Project
2004, Winner, University of Cincinnati Orchestral Composition Competition
2004, Second Prize Winner, ACCENT Competition MUSIC X Festival, Cincinnati
2003, First Prize Winner UPBEAT-Hvar, Croatia, composition competition
2001, John Lennon Songwriting Contest, double runner-up

Performances:

ORCHESTRAL: Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, Jacksonville University Orchestra, New World Symphony, University of Cincinnati Philharmonia, Concert Orchestra and Jazz Ensemble, I.N.T.Y. Contemporary Orchestra, Queen City Virtuosi, Young Musicians Orchestra of Miami, Preludes Camp Orchestra (2009), Coastal Symphony of Georgia (2009)

CHAMBER MUSIC: Sybarite Chamber Players (CBS Early Show, Aspen Music Festival, Aspen Chamber Music Series, Lincoln Center), Juventas New Music Ensemble, Interlochen Chamber Players, Degas Quartet, Quarteto Latinoamericano, ACCORD Quartet, ALIAS Ensemble (Nashville, ASOL Conference, live radio performance on NPR), Third Millenium Ensemble, Atlanta Chamber Players
Members of the Jacksonville Symphony , FAZA String Quartet, Roggero Trio, Spoleto Festival USA (Music In Time series), Colorado Music Festival in Boulder, UPBEAT-Hvar Festival in Croatia, New World Symphony Xchange and Forum concerts, Members of the New World Symphony, Music X New Music Festival, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Santa Fe New Music Festival, Bavarian Academy of Arts in Munich, Germany, Museum of Art and Design in Nuremberg, Germany, University of North Florida, Dwight Parry (principal oboe, Cincinnati Symphony), Robert Woolfrey (second clarinet, Cleveland Orchestra)

Piotr Szewczyk, composer (ASCAP)

Catalogue of compositions (with dates and durations)
All music is self-published and available for sale.

SOLOS

Convergence for Solo Cello (5’30”) 2010
A Frenetic Poem Strolls for Solo Clarinet (4’30”) 2010
Jay Jay Bee for Solo Clarinet (2’) 2010
First Coast Groove for Violin (3’50”) 2008
T-Boned for Tenor Trombone (5’) 2008
Lament for the Tsunami Victims for Violin (5’40”) 2005
All-Wheel Drive for Violin (2’40”) 2004
Cadenza I, II, III, IV and V for Violin Solo (2’- 5’each)1997-2003

DUETS

Nimbus for Two Violins (5'30") 2011
Synchronicity for Two Clarinets (Bb and Bass) (7’30") 2011
Morning Elation, Fanfare for Oboe and Viola (2’) 2010
The Moon Goddess for Violin and Cello (3’50”) 2007
Conundrum for Violin and Viola (7’) 2004
Snapper for Violin and Piano (4’30”) 2004
Fantasia for Violin and Piano (15’) 2000
Two Movements for Violin and Piano (5’30”) 1999
Three Moods for Violin and Piano (10’) 1999

TRIOS

Piano Trio No. 1 (12’) 2010
Furioso for String Trio (6’40”) 2009
Conundrum II for Three Violins (10’30”) 2006
Ma Intenso for String Trio (9’30”) 2005
Three Images for Clarinet, Cello and Piano (11’) 2004
Introduction and Scherzo for String Trio (6’) 2002
Two Remembrances for String Trio (9’20”) 2002
Wild West Sketch for String Trio (4’45”) 2002
Three Summer Sketches for Violin, Clarinet and Bassoon (9’30”) 2002
Three Summer Sketches for String Trio (9’30”) 2002
Three Images for Viola, Clarinet and Piano (11’) 2003

QUARTETS

Time Travel for String Quartet (16’30”) 2005
Ocean Drive for String Quartet (4’) 2005
Half-Diminished Scherzo for String Quartet (5’15”) 2004
In Motion for String Quartet (15’) 2004
Traffic Jam Alert for String Quartet (4’20”) 2003
Three Miniatures for String Quartet (8’30”) 2001
Three Episodes for Violin, Oboe, Cello and Bassoon (9’) 2010
Images from a Journey for Flute, Clarinet, Cello and Piano 6’10” (2010)

OTHER CHAMBER MUSIC

Apparitions for Violin, Flute, Clarinet, Cello and

Percussion (5’40”) 2006
The Rebel for String Quintet (3’15”) 2005
Romantic Beatbox for Piano, Marimba and String
Quintet (14’30”) 2003

STRING ORCHESTRA

Ocean Drive (4’) 2010
Jazz It Up (4’30”’) 2009
Summer Music (5’) 2009
Rebirth of Hope (5’45”) 2005
A Journey Within (12’) 2005
Concertino for Oboe and String Orchestra (12’) 2005
Fantasia for Violin and String Orchestra (6’) 1997

ORCHESTRA

First Coast Fanfare for Orchestra (12’) 2010
Violin Concerto (17’) 2006
Transposed Memories for Orchestra (11’) 2004
Time for Change for Electric Violin and Jazz orchestra (9’30”) 2003