Filip Skutela

Filip Skutela (born 1984 in Poznań, Poland) is a contemporary classical music composer, producer and a pianist. Although he had never attended any music classes nor formal music education, he realized his passion to music in early childhood. Having absolute pitch, he taught himself about music theory and harmony, and composed his first music piece at the age of 9. He is self-trained pianist as well.

For many years Skutela was connected with Academy of Music in Poznań as an independent artist and performer, also collaborating with Students’ Interfacultative Symphony Orchestra. He is also co-founder of Academic Choir at University of Economics and Computer Science in Warsaw.

Being focused mainly on orchestral forms of music, he has created pieces in wide variety of classical genres; however, his compositional style represents mostly a form of neo-romanticism. During the years, Skutela evolved his own individual aesthetics and stylistics, which were being mostly described as “longingly passionate”.

Until this time, Skutela has composed two full-time symphonies (No.1 in A major - “Firespring”; No.2 in C# minor - “Faerie Moon”), two piano concertos (No.1 in F# minor; No.2 in B minor), one cello concerto (in E minor), several string quartets, of which the most notable is “Five Elements”, as well as about 50 pieces for solo instruments, mostly piano and cello.

After winning several minor composition contests in 2004-2007, he became more recognized among music community and started his interest in releasing soundtrack scores for short-subject movies (e.g. “Synninpäästö”, “Menneisyys” directed by Vuokko Salminen), theatre musical settings and other forms of art.

As a hobby, he was fleetingly involved in demoscene as a chiptune artist in 1999-2005.
At the moment, he lives in Poznań and works as music composer and psychologist-therapist.

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