Bio
Robert Kurdybacha - conductor, composer, arranger and teacher. A conductor in several dozen chamber and symphonic premieres and an original performer with particular emphasis on 20th and 21st century music. Author of many chamber and symphonic compositions as well arrangements and orchestrations.
Although his first interests focused on early music, his conducting debut fell on a contemporary piece and since then the area of new and twentieth-century music has become his main field of activity.
He is the founder and artistic director of the Sound Factory Orchestra and Tech-No Orchestra, ensembles specializing in broadly understood new music. He also conducted such orchestras as: Bielsko-Biała Chamber Orchestra, Ningbo Symphony Orchestra, Wrocław Philharmonic Orchestra, Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Polish Philharmonia Orchestra.
For many years, Robert Kurdybacha has been organizing events promoting new music and its creators. He was the artistic and organizational manager of the International Sound Factory, a series of concerts in Poland, Germany and Slovakia. Since 2016, together with prof. Stanisław Krupowicz, co-created and coordinated the electroacoustic and computer music festival "Sine scientia ars nihil est". He is also an artistic director of the Game Music Festival.
In addition to his artistic activity, he also deals with the issues of entrepreneurship, innovative methods of teamwork and talent management. Since 2018, he has been a member of the Council of the Lower Silesian Academic Entrepreneurship Incubator of the Wrocław Technology Park, and since 2019, a lecturer in the field of innovative management methods at the Postgraduate Studies in Management of Cultural Institutions at the University of Economics in Wrocław. In his teaching activities at the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław, focuses on composition teaching and prepares conductors and performers in the field of effective teamwork, performing new music and working in a modern technological environment.
His achievements include awards of more than 10 music competitions (as a composer and performer) as well as performances in Poland and abroad. He is a scholar of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and Society of Authors ZAiKS. He has been awarded many times the Rector's Prize of the Academy of Music in Wrocław.
Robert Kurdybacha - conductor, composer, arranger and teacher. A conductor in several dozen chamber and symphonic premieres and an original performer with particular emphasis on 20th and 21st century music. Author of many chamber and symphonic compositions as well arrangements and orchestrations.
Although his first interests focused on early music, his conducting debut fell on a contemporary piece and since then the area of new and twentieth-century music has become his main field of activity.
He is the founder and artistic director of the Sound Factory Orchestra and Tech-No Orchestra, ensembles specializing in broadly understood new music. He also conducted such orchestras as: Bielsko-Biała Chamber Orchestra, Ningbo Symphony Orchestra, Wrocław Philharmonic Orchestra, Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Polish Philharmonia Orchestra.
For many years, Robert Kurdybacha has been organizing events promoting new music and its creators. He was the artistic and organizational manager of the International Sound Factory, a series of concerts in Poland, Germany and Slovakia. Since 2016, together with prof. Stanisław Krupowicz, co-created and coordinated the electroacoustic and computer music festival "Sine scientia ars nihil est". He is also an artistic director of the Game Music Festival.
In addition to his artistic activity, he also deals with the issues of entrepreneurship, innovative methods of teamwork and talent management. Since 2018, he has been a member of the Council of the Lower Silesian Academic Entrepreneurship Incubator of the Wrocław Technology Park, and since 2019, a lecturer in the field of innovative management methods at the Postgraduate Studies in Management of Cultural Institutions at the University of Economics in Wrocław. In his teaching activities at the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław, focuses on composition teaching and prepares conductors and performers in the field of effective teamwork, performing new music and working in a modern technological environment.
His achievements include awards of more than 10 music competitions (as a composer and performer) as well as performances in Poland and abroad. He is a scholar of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and Society of Authors ZAiKS. He has been awarded many times the Rector's Prize of the Academy of Music in Wrocław.
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Conductor
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13.10.2023
Banská Štiavnica, Galéria Jana Kollára, JAMA - 77 Ročnik Milana Adamčiaka Festival
Veni Academy
Robert Kurdybacha- cond., violin
Monika Wierbiłowicz- Butterfly Extravaganza for ensemble (world premiere) -
8-13.10.2023
Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, Music Workshop- tutor
Veni Academy 4x4 -Call for Scores- jury member -
19.05.2023
Kalisz, Polish Philharmonic Concert Hall
Tomasz Bielski Quartet
Polish Philharmonic Orchestra
Robert Kurdybacha- conductor
Programme:
Tomasz Bielski- Suite „In Memory of Irena & Gustaw Fibiger”
Bronisław Kaper - Invitation (arr. Tomasz Bielski)
Chick Corea - Crystal Silence (arr. Tomasz Bielski)
Sigmund Romberg - Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise (arr. Tomasz Bielski)
Luiz Bonfa- Manha de Carnaval (arr. Tomasz Bielski)
Tomasz Bielski- Beethoven in Cuba (arr. Tomasz Bielski)
Hoagy Carmichael- The Nearness of you (arr. Tomasz Bielski)
Luiz Bonfa- Samba de Orphee (arr. Tomasz Bielski) -
26.11.2022
The International Music Festival of Central-Eastern Europe Eufonie, Warsaw (Poland)
Ivan Taranenko MusClub, Tonus Finalis Ensemble,
Warsaw Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
Robert Kurdybacha- conductor
Ivan Taranenko, Marcin Bortnowski, Stanisław Krupowicz, Marcin Rupociński - Fusionfonia. Music of the Ukrainian Land for soloists, fusion ensemble, computer trio and symphony orchestra, world premiere – commissioned by National Centre for Culture Poland -
18.06.2022
Poznań, Fan Convention Pyrkon, Poznań Congress Centre, Earth Hall
Percival, Poznań Chamber Orchestra, dyr. Robert Kurdybacha
Program: Pieces from the game soundtrack of Witcher
arrangement - Robert Kurdybacha -
6.03.2022
Royal Festival Hall, London
https://philharmonia.co.uk/whats-on/220306-game-music-festival-the-symphony-of-the-spirits/
Robert Kurdybacha – conductor
Kristin Naigus – soloist, woodwinds
Hertfordshire Chorus
Philharmonia Orchestra
Programme:
Gareth Coker (arr. Robert Kurdybacha) - The Symphony of the Spirits (Ori and the Blind Forest, Ori and the Will of the Wisps)
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10.10.2021
Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
Veni Academy
Robert Kurdybacha - conductor
Michał Moc- Po-wer- Po-wer, 6 musical events with elements of games for ensemble -
28.05.2021
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16.10.2020
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26.01.2020
The Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław, Sound Factory Orchestra
Robert Kurdybacha - conductor
Piotr Bednarczyk - I’m your Glitch
Thomas Neuhaus - Scherzo -
9.12.2019
Shanghai, Oriental Arts Centre Concert Hall, Polish Games - Creative Poland - The Concert, Atom String Quartet, Percival, Natalia Grosiak, Natalia Szczypuła, Ningbo Symphony Orchestra
Robert Kurdybacha - conductor -
19.11.2019
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12.11.2019
Essen, Folkwang Universität der Künste, International Sound Factory, Sound Factory Orchestra
Robert Kurdybacha - conductor
Paul Preusser - Don’t Turn the Lights Off
Piotr Bednarczyk - I'm your glitch
Thomas Neuhaus - Scherzo
Michał Moc - HARPINESS
Elias Jurgschat - Module for ensemble and soundfiles
Sowon Yun - ONE
Jadwiga Maria Frej - first finger... a little bit louder.. yep, kind of… -
19.10.2019
Composer
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Solo and chamber
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2021Prelude and fugue for alt saxophone and piano
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2020Lecioły Zórazie (The cranes were flying) for guitar and piano
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2013Aviolphobia for viola solo
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2004Quartet for clarinet, piano, violin and marimba/ vibraphone
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2003FREE 4 FREE for flute, cello and piano
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1998Landscapes (part III) for clarinet and guitar
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1997
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1995Landscapes (part II) for flute, bass clarinet and piano
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1995
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1995Seven minutes for guitar solo
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1994
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1994Jazz-bass for cello solo
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1993Solo for guitar solo
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1992X Songs for bass clarinet and harp
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19901st String quartet
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Orchestral
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2019So-so for alt saxophone and chamber orchestra
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2018Polonaise fantastic for orchestra
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2015Saxophone concerto
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2014
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2013Credo for choir and orchestra
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2011
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2008
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2005
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2005Estravaganza electric guitar and orchestra
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2000Tech-no 2000 for orchestra
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1999Private Music II for ensemble
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1997
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19972nd Symphony for orchestra
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1994 - 19951st Symphony for orchestra
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1991Concerto for bass guitar, jazz ensemble and orchestra
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1991
Projects
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Sound Factory Orchestra
In the beginning, there were regular academic classes. In 2010, when a group of students made a decision- we are changing the sign and we will continue. This "continue" runs on to this day, and a large group of artists has already passed through the orchestra. Some people come back after years. It is not a full-time ensemble and the whole is one big crazy, organizational improvisation. That is why it is a band different from all the others and nothing is impossible for it, unless someone turns off the lights.
The orchestra usually consists of a dozen or so members, but in special situations the ensemble has been extended to the size of a symphony orchestra. SFO has performed in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Poland, often organizing her own performances. The group has performed several dozen world premieres of new works and recorded a lot. SFO cooperate closely with the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław, the Computer Composition Studio of AMKL, artists from the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, Wrocław Technology Park and foreign centers of new music in Germany and Slovakia.
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International Sound Factory
Supporting young artists and performers is an important task. Therefore, thanks to the financial support of the City of Wrocław, it was possible to create a platform to perform new works by composers associated with Dresden, Essen and Wrocław. Every year, these cities host concerts presenting new compositions written especially for this occasion.
The International Sound Factory is open. Other centers can join it, which we are constantly working on. The pieces are performed by the Sound Factory Orchestra. The Orchestra also collaborates with the Computer Composition Studio and artists associated with the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław. -
The orchestra as a model of a perfect enterprise
The essence of the project is to recognize the fact that the orchestra is very much like a company. Although it only produces sounds, the processes that take place inside the team are a great study of the relationships between members of a specific organization, regardless of form, status or range.
A musician here, an employee there, sections here, departments there, managers as concertmasters and soloists, and the CEO as a conductor. And during the classes there is an extraordinary experience of being among the musicians or conducting an orchestra using a real baton. -
Sine scientia ars nihil est
It is a series of concerts in which we try to combine the achievements of science, music technologies and achievements in the field of musical and visual arts into projects with a high degree of originality, creativity and, which should be emphasized, risk. It is a kind of laboratory where everyone has an open door, provided that they want to propose something with a high degree of originality and have a great will to develop their skills as well as team and creative competences.
So far, the series has been carried out in the form of a festival aimed at students, but we are currently working on a new formula with a wider scope. -
TechNoOrchestra
Once a string orchestra, and today a dormant initiative awaiting an impulse to resume activity. The Sound Factory Orchestra was created on its basis. Contrary to SFO, TNO's artistic line is more personal, with a specific, individual aesthetic and interdisciplinary character. Today it is a project that assumes an artistic counterbalance to pop culture, with the use of new media and artistic sophistication.