Tomasz Skweres

Biography

Tomasz Skweres was born in Warsaw, Poland. 1997 he moved to Austria, where he studied composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna with Chaya Czernowin and Detlev Müller-Siemens, who was one of the last students of György Ligeti and Olivier Messiaen. Tomasz Skweres also studied cello with Valentin Erben (Alban Berg Quartet) at the same university.

He composed a number of chamber music works, orchestral compositions and works for choir. His music has been performed at Wiener Musikverein, Konzerthaus in Vienna, Gasteig in Munich, Trafo House of Contemporary Arts in Budapest, Lviv Philharmony (Ukraine), Cantacuzino palace in Bukarest (Meridian Festival), Teatro Universitario de la BUAP in Puebla (Mexico), Guangzhou Concert Hall (China), Teatro da Reitoria in Curiciba (Bienal Música Hoje (Brasil)), Nørre Vosborg Chamber Music Festival (Denmark) as well as in Japan, Taiwan, Argentina and Australia. His works has been broadcast by Bayerischer Rundfunk (Germany), ABC Classic FM (Australia), Frequencia Universitaria (Mexico), Ö1 (Austrian state broadcasting station), Radio Stephansdom (Austria) and recorded for Genuin classics, Orlando records a.o.

The Austrian Publishing House Doblinger has been the exclusive music publisher of Skweres' works since 2009.

Commissions & awards

Tomasz Skweres was commissioned to compose orchestral works for the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wiener Konzerthaus, the Orchestra of Theater Regensburg, Biennale Bern (Stadttheater Bern) and chamber music works for the Festival Wien Modern, the International Society for Contemporary Music, ÖGZM (Austrian Society for contemporary Music), the Apollon Musagete Quartet, Reconsil Ensemble, Ensemble Wiener Collage a.o.

He is winner of the Ernst Krenek Composition Competition 2014, the International Franz Josef Reinl Composition Competition 2008, the Theodor Körner Prize in composers section, the composition competition for the obligatory piece at the International Joseph Haydn Chamber Music Competition in Vienna (twice: 2006, 2009), 2nd prize winner at the international composition competition of Deutsche Hochdruckliga 2009 a.o.

He received grants from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education and Women (2014: Österreichisches Staatsstipendium, 2010: Startstipendium), the Herbert-von-Karajan-Foundation, the Swiss Thyll-Dürr-Foundation (2009) and the Czibulka-Foundation (2008).