Author biography

Stanisław Trzciński – Polish cultural expert, economist and publicist. Doctor of humanities in the discipline of culture and religion.

Member of the Creative Economy Research Center team and academic teacher at the SWPS University and Collegium Civitas in Warsaw. Guest lecturer at other universities in Warsaw and Poznań.

Winner of the ZAiKS Special Award in 2022 for many years of contribution to the development of Polish culture.

He studies the Polish music market, contemporary music consumers, as well as the impact of new technologies, including artificial intelligence, on the music industry.

In 2023, he received the distinction of the Rector of the SWPS University for his doctoral dissertation "In search of typology of music audiences in the era of digitization".

Author of numerous popular science and scientific publications on pop culture, creative sectors and marketing communication. Expert in the field of music marketing. It describes the legal and material situation of creators in the digital world. In recent years, he has published articles in Rzeczpospolita, OKO.press, NaTemat.pl, Magazyn TVN24 and AUNC Management - ACTA Universitatis Nicolai Copernici - Management.

Creator of weekly music broadcasts on Radiospacja (2020-2022), Radio PiN (2004-2012) and Radio Solidarność (1991-1992). Program director of NRJ FM - New Radio Jazz (2004-2008). Columnist and regular collaborator of Przekrój and Playboy magazines (1993-2011). Head of the culture section of the bi-weekly Gala (2008).

Entrepreneur, culture manager, concert promoter and publisher. President of the board of STX Music Solutions (STX Records until July 2017) and co-owner of the event agency STX Jamboree. Founder of PrzestrzenMuzyki.pl (MyPlaylist) portal and mobile applications. It licenses global hits for television and internet advertisements and games for the largest brands on the Polish market. He is responsible for the musical setting of facilities, e.g. Warsaw's Hala Koszyki (2016-2019). As a music consultant and producer of concerts, he permanently provided strategic and marketing services in the area of music communication to the following brands: Orange (2005-2008) and Carlo Rossi (2006-2011).

Creator and publisher of the series of albums awarded with the Golden Record many times: Positive Wibracje, Pinadolada, Pepper and Vanilla and Sygnowani Fabryka Trzciny (35 double albums in the years 1997-2011). Co-editor of the 2015 Platinum Record Awarded Double CD+DVD Night in Calisia Live performed by Grammy Award winners: Włodek Pawlik Trio, Randy Brecker and the Kalisz Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Adam Klocek. From 2004 until today, it has produced over 2,000,000 copies of premium music CDs and cassettes attached to products - added, among others, to for Nescafe Classic coffee and for a six-pack of Lech beer.

He has performed over 150 concerts by Polish and foreign artists, including: Kylie Minogue, Macy Gray, Seal, Grace Jones, Kool & The Gang, Woody Allen & His New Orleans Jazz Band, Al Di Meola, Scorpions, ZAZ, Take 6, Raphael Saadiq , Gregory Porter, Benjamin Clementine, Goran Bregovic, The Brand New Heavies, Giulia Y Los Tellarini, Chambao, Incognito, Anoushka Shankar, Nigel Kennedy, Gabin, M People & Heather Small, Ayo, Count Basic,!Deladap, No Jazz, Dimitri From Paris, The Manhattan Transfer, Sophie Solomon, BBC Big Band, New York Voices, Ive Mendes, Oh Laura and many others, as well as musical programs at the Congress Hall of the Palace of Culture and Science with music by The Beatles, The Bee Gees, Abba and Motown.

Since 2018, the founder of the Surprise Foundation. He co-created the concept of the Fabryka Trzciny Art Center in 2003. Manager of Anna Maria Jopek (1997-1999), Renata Gabryjelska (1999-2002) and Natalia Lesz (2004). Multiple participant of the MIDEM fair in Cannes and the ILMC conference in London (2000-2013). Shareholder of the legendary Filtry club in Warsaw (1992-1994).

Publisher of the underground youth press and member of the presidium of the Interschool Solidarity Committee (1988-1990). An associate of Jacek Kuroń and the Warsaw Solidarity Citizens' Committee during the 1989 elections, as well as a close associate of the head of the electoral staff of the Democratic Union in 1991.

Member of the Association of Authors ZAiKS and the ZPAV Phonographic Academy. Born in Warsaw in 1972. He has a son, Jan (born 2010).

Since 2018, the founder of the Surprise Foundation. He co-created the concept of the Fabryka Trzciny Art Center in 2003. Manager of Anna Maria Jopek (1997-1999), Renata Gabryjelska (1999-2002) and Natalia Lesz (2004). Multiple participant of the MIDEM fair in Cannes and the ILMC conference in London (2000-2013). Shareholder of the legendary Filtry club in Warsaw (1992-1994).

Publisher of the underground youth press and member of the presidium of the Interschool Solidarity Committee (1988-1990). An associate of Jacek Kuroń and the Warsaw Solidarity Citizens' Committee during the 1989 elections, as well as a close associate of the head of the electoral staff of the Democratic Union in 1991.

Member of the Association of Authors ZAiKS and the ZPAV Phonographic Academy. Born in Warsaw in 1972. He has a son, Jan (born 2010).