In the same year Prtita III was the joint winning work in the Benjamin Britten Composers Competition which resulted in Szyma ski being commissioned to write a piece for chamber orchestra by the Aldeburgh Festival - A Study of Shade for orchestra, which premiered in 1989. This music is filled with irony and composed with audible quotation marks. The work received an enthusiastic welcome from Polish music critics, so much so that Bohdan Pociej devoted a whole column in Ruch Muzyczny to the fact of its composition and to its significance in contemporary Polish music. In 1996 Szyma ski was the featured composer at the Toronto Soundstreams Festival, and his new work for string quartet and clarinet, Recalling a Serenade , was premiered at Finland's Kuhmo Festival with the Silesian String Quartet and Kari Kriikku. His music is published by Chester Music.
Szyma ski lives and works as a free-lance artist in Warsaw.
Szyma ski's views about music notation and manuscripts has evolved through the years. His early published works were engraved by his Polish publisher, Agencja Autorska . It outlived its usefulness in the technologically advanced workshop of a computer-savvy composer. I don't know what a beautiful sound is. Obviously in their psycho-physical aspects sounds as stimulants might be pleasant, neutral or unpleasant, but this fact as such has nothing in common with beauty.