RAFAŁ ZAPAŁA - composer, sound artist
post-doctorate degree (habilitation) – composition
associate professor at the Academy of Music in Poznan
Holder of the Fulbright Senior Award 2021 scholarship.

His music was presented at contemporary music festivals, jazz clubs, experimental music venues, and open, public spaces.
Graduated: composition (MA, Ph.D., habilitation) and conducting (MA). Participant of Darmstadt Summer Courses, Stockhausen Concerts and Courses (Kurten), Acanthes Courses (Metz, with IRCAM, T. Murail and B. Furrer), P. Oliveros, A. Lucier (STEIM Amsterdam), Z. Karkowski and others.
Artist-in-residence at Stanford University–CCRMA, CK „Zamek”, Swiętokrzyska Philharmonic , ZK/U Berlin ( 2016/17), Vertigo STARTS (2019) and CNMAT UC Berkeley.
Founder of Kołorking Muzyczny, an_ARCHE NewMusicFoundation, and many ensembles (contemporary, improvised, electronic music).
His concept of Live Electronic Preparation (LEP Technique) is published in the Oxford Handbook of Interactive Audio (Oxford University Press, 2014).
Author of Sensorium – a huge, immersive sound installation based on biofeedback data sonification.
Sound Designer of The Polish national exhibition Post-Apocalypsis (Gold Medal of the 13th Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space – Sound Design category).