Jerzy Bielski – composer, stage director, author of interdisciplinary music theatre performances, installation designer and performer. He creates works at a cross-point between music, theatre, new media (VR/XR), contemporary dance, video, sound art and installation – strongly connected to the current socio-civilisation related issues. Bielski received Gold Award at Amsterdam Fringe, one of the biggest Dutch theatre festivals, for his piece not only FUTURISTS and is a finalist of an international competition Danse Élargie in Seoul, S. Korea, for his music dance theatre piece + – / , 1 = _ ; X %
His work has been presented at: Dutch National Opera (Amsterdam), Festival de Royaumont (France), Danse Élargie festival (S. Korea), National Arts Festival (S. Africa), IGNM Bern (Switzerland), Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow (Poland), Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ (Amsterdam), SPRING festival (Utrecht), Tivoli Vredenburg (Utrecht), Warsaw Autumn (Poland), Café Oto (London), Stadsschouwburg Utrecht, Amsterdamse Bostheatre, Theatre Kikker, Brakke Grond, Het Huis Utrecht, WORM, BUMA, Orgelpark, Splendor (Netherlands), etc…
Bielski has created nine performances of (experimental) music theatre, five of them produced by the Dutch foundation Futurists, of which he is the director, and another four commissioned by the Dutch organisations: Gaudeamus, Amsterdamse Bostheatre, Silbersee, and Orgelpark. He has designed and built installations and new unique instruments (acoustic and electronic) to the other six performances. As a guest composer, he has written music to thirteen theatre performances in the Netherlands, UK and Poland. Bielski had co-created musically another few dance and movie projects. He is a leader of a 9-piece hyper-rock band Circuit, which received Emerging Excellence Award for the album “Codes” (London). In 2017-19 Bielski was a stipendist of Performing Arts Fund NL as a “New Maker” and an artist-in-residence at Dutch new music foundation Gaudeamus. During this time, he travelled to over a dozen contemporary music and theater festivals in the Netherlands, Germany, France, UK, and Poland. He had individual lessons with Jenifer Walshe, Frances Sanders, Richard Ayres, Georges Aperghis, Alexander Schubert, Brian Ferneyhough, Chaya Czernowin, Rosalie Hirs, David Helbich, Wim Hendrickx, and Jan Klata.
Jerzy Bielski (born in Białystok, Poland) lives in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He graduated from Middlesex University in London (Jazz Guitar) and Conservatorium of Amsterdam (Classical Composition).

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“Jerzy is a composer who doesn’t think in scores but in total concepts. He pushes the boundaries of music theater with great ambition.”
– Tobias Kokkelmans (Nederlands Theater Festival director)

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“Bielski constructs a world which surprises, challenges and confuses. His work, praised by the public and the press,
is unconventional, limitless and deliberately outside any boxes.”

– Jan Nieuwenhuis (Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ, Amsterdam)

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“Bielski has an undeniable sense of theater.”
– NRC **** (Joep Stapel)

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Jerzy Bielski - Composer, Music Theatre Maker, Performer

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Creations

As a main author

A.– 360 (VR) movie / installation (20min., ongoing)
Fish dance when they are not sleeping (Opera for the Deaf) – music theatre performance with multimedia for five Deaf dancers, actors, cello, Paetzold flute, soprano, electronics, video and motion sensors (65 min., Dutch National Opera, ongoing)
NONline Opera – music theatre performance with multimedia for an actor, soprano, electronics, video, trumpet, flute, electric guitar, double bass, piano, and drums (100min., Gaudeamus) 2022
No-One Show – music 360 (VR) movie and theatre performance for a solo vocalist-actor, electronics and the audience (59min., Gaudeamus, O. festival, Warsaw Autumn, IGNM Bern, Splendor) 2020
Zamenhof Project: Breaking the Codes – music theatre piece (91min., Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ in Amsterdam, Meakusma Festival in Belgium, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, Warsaw Autumn) 2019
Composer-performer solo – music performance art piece for a solo musician-performer (11min., Darmstädter Ferienkurse festival, Spr!tzl Amsterdam) 2018
#tristanisolde – music theatre piece for three dancers, their voices, electronics and percussion (20min. Silbersee, Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ, Amsterdam) 2017
+ – / , 1 = _ ; X % – music dance theatre performance for three dancers, their voices, paper, electronics and video (35min., Dansê Elargie festival in Seoul, South Korea, Royamount Festival in Paris, France, SPRING festival in Utrecht, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, Amsterdam Fringe) 2016
Yes No – music theatre performance for two organ, guitars, piano, electronics, video, two actors and their voices (60min., Het Orgelpark, Amsterdam) 2016
Down/Up – music theatre piece for soprano, viola da gamba, Slovak fujara, tenor, baritone, and bass (17min., Gaudeamus Muziekweek) 2016
MORE (White-Red-Black) – music theatre performance for three actors, piano, guitars, percussion and electronics (30min., Amsterdamse Bostheater) 2016
not only F U T U R I S T S – music theatre piece for four musicians-actors, prepared piano, amplified power tools, synthesisers, electronics, video, and percussion (59min., National Arts Festival in S. Africa, Amsterdam Fringe, Café Otó in London, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, Museum of Contemporary Arts in Krakow, Theater Bellevue, Theater Kikker, Mazovia Cultural Institute in Warsaw) 2016/2019
Red Square, Black Square, Blue Triangle – music performance art piece for three percussionists (tubular bells, 500 ping-pong balls, gran casa, drum kit) and live coded electronics (11min., Composers Festival, Amsterdam) 2014
Circuit 21 music pieces for voice, harp, cello, electric guitar, electronics, piano, trumpet, saxophone, drums, bass (in total 120 min., 30+ different venues across the UK, Belgium, and Poland) 2008-13
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As a guest artist

Kopciuszek – theatre music (79 min., Teatr Arlekin, Lodz, Poland) 2021
Wielkie Gorące Szybkie Puff – theatre music (80 min., Teatr Ateneum, Katowice, Poland) 2020
Planeta Einsteina – theatre music, designing and building MIDI controllers (58 min., Teatr Animacji, Poznan, Poland) 2020
Rok Metalowego Szczura – theatre music (59 min., Grupa Coincidentia, Bialystok, Poland) 2020
Trala Tralalińscy – theatre music, designing and building musical instruments/installations (65 min., Teatr Lalki i Aktora, Kielce, Poland) 2019
Szelmostwa Lisa Witalisa – theatre music (69 min., Teatr im. C.K.Norwida, Jelenia Gora, Poland) 2018
Wodna Opowieść – theatre music, designing and building musical instruments/installations (59 min., Teatr Pleciuga, Szczecin, Poland) 2017
Straszka pospolita – theatre music (68 min., Grupa Coincidentia, Bialystok, Poland) 2017
The Monstrum Band – theatre music, designing and building musical instruments/installations (61 min., Grupa Coincidentia, Teatr Lalki i Aktora, Kielce, Poland) 2016
The Disappearance of Mrs Price – theatre music, designing and building musical instruments/installations 20 min., Kameroperahuis, Zwolle, Netherlands) 2017
Bibi Ha Bibi – music to a contemporary dance performance (44 min., Aloun Marshall, Enrique Furtado, Gothenburg, Sweden, Paris, France, Lisbon, Portugal) 2017
Turning Point – music-painting installation (10 min., Pim Piët, The Hague, Netherlands) 2015
Celebration of Life – theatre music, designing and building musical instruments/installations (64 min., Espen Hjort, Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2015
The Improvised History of the World – theatre music (25 min., The Royal School of Speech and Drama, London, UK) 2014
Portobello Road – film music (36 min., Michal Barylski, London, UK) 2011
Back Garden – music to a contemporary dance movie (25 min., collective HER, London, UK) 2010
The Shield – film music (40 min., London, UK) 2010