Ryszard Szeremeta

Is a Polish composer of experimental music, producer of recordings, concerts and performances of electroacoustic music, jazz singer.

At the Academy of Music in Kraków Szeremeta studied composition with prof. Lucjan Kaszycki (1971–1975), conducting with prof. Jerzy Katlewicz (1972–1975), electronic music with prof. Józef Patkowski.

In 1982 he completed postgraduate compositional studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London under the direction of Alfred Nieman and Robert Saxton, in 1986 computer internship at the Electronic Music Studio in Stockholm under Lars Gunnar Bodin and Tamas Ungvary, and in 1991 at the GMEB in Bourges, France (now IMEB: International Institute of Electroacoustic Music) under the direction of Françoise Barrière.

Szeremeta has received many awards, including with the Grand Prix at the Tadeusz Baird Competition for Young Composers (1977), the Polish Broadcasting Competition (1979), the Prizes at Electroacoustic Music Competitions in Bourges (1981), Varèse (1984) and Oslo (1989), Henryk Wars Prize of the Artists Association ZAiKS and the European Radio Union Tribunal in Budapest (1995).