Jakub Ciupinski
composer

Jakub Ciupinski is Polish composer living in New York City. His concert music has been commissioned by various institutions and ensembles including Metropolis Ensemble, The New Juilliard Ensemble, The New York City Ballet’s Choreographic Institute, as well as by world-famous violinists Anne Akiko-Meyers and Philippe Quint. His works have been performed at prestigious international venues such as Tonhalle in Zurich and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York.

Ciupinski is a co-founder of Blind Ear Music, a New York-based group of composers and instrumentalists that perform improvised, real-time compositions using wirelessly connected laptops as musical score displays. He has also designed his own instrument for performing electronic music using hand gestures. He has collaborated with a variety of artists, musicians, choreographers and film directors, including Oscar-winning director Andrzej Wajda and Jessica Lang on her works i.n.k., Within the Space I Hold for JLD, Eighty One for Ballet San Jose, and Droplet for the New York Choreographic Institute. He has also scored the music for United Nations documentary Opening Doors.

He studied with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Christopher Rouse at The Juilliard School, Zbigniew Bujarski and Krzysztof Penderecki at the Cracow Academy of Music, and with Edwin Roxbrough and Joe Cutler at the Birmingham Conservatoire.Ciupinski is teaching studio composition at SUNY Purchase, New York.

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