Jakub Po.

JAKUB was born in Cracow on the 8th of March in 1983. He is a composer, pianist, musicologist and music teacher. In 2013 he received his Artist Diploma in Composition (Prof. Reza Vali) as a full scholarship recipient at the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. In 2010 he received combined Bachelor/ Master Degree in Composition (2010) from the Music Academy of Cracow. There he studied composition with Assistant Professor Marcel Chyrzyński, orchestration with Prof. Krzysztof Penderecki and computer music with Prof. Marek Chołoniewski.

In 2008/2009 semester as part of the Socrates-Erasmus Exchange Scholars program he studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels, where he refined his compositional techniques in the class of Jan van Landeghem. In 2010-2011 he took postgraduate course in film scoring and theater music at the Music Academy and Schiller Film School in Lodz.

In 2008 he received Master Degree in Musicology from the Jagiellonian University in Cracow under the supervision of Prof. Małgorzata Woźna-Stankiewicz, and in 2005 Bachelor Degree in Musicology under supervision of Professor Jadwiga Paja-Stach.

In 2005 he graduated from the Żelenski Secondary Music School in the piano class of Irena Rolanowska, obtaining diploma with honors. JAKUB has also received numerous awards and scholarship outside the academia. The most recent being the Iron Composer Award at the 2013 Iron Composer Competition held at Cleveland, Ohio.

In 2013 he also received artistic scholarship from the Minister of Culture of Poland - "Young Poland". In 2010 he received a music scholarship from the Major of the City of Krakow - Jacek Majchrowski.

In both 2010 and 2007 he received the artistic scholarship from the Sapere Auso Foundation. JAKUB is an active figure among international music festivals