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Konrad Kaczmarek is a composer, musician, and programmer working primarily in live audio processing and video performance. He received a B.A. in music from Yale University, a MMus in electronic music composition from University of London, Goldsmiths, and is currently in the composition program at Princeton. He has held teaching positions at Yale University, The New School University, and Harvestworks Studio in New York.

His freelance programming and performing have taken him to the Kunstnernes Hus in Olso, Norway (2009), The New Zealand International Arts Festival (2008), The 2008 Whitney Biennial Performance Series, the Next Wave festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (2006), “Works and Process” at the Guggenheim (2006), and The Strings of Autumn Festival at the Estate Theater in Prague (2006).

His own work has been performed at the Stanley Glasser Electronic Music Studio in London, the Sonorities Festival at Queens University in Belfast, The SoundBytes Festival in Halifax NS, The Tank and The Chelsea Art Museum in New York, Brooklyn College, The Extensible Toy Piano Project at Clark University and University of Albany, and the Princeton Composer’s Ensemble.  He has been awarded residencies at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, The Banff Centre in Canada, and STEIM in The Netherlands. 

Konrad is also a jazz pianist, and has received an outstanding soloist award from Jazz at Lincoln Center and the Stanton Wheeler prize for jazz performance at Yale University.

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