Paweł Mykietyn, composer and clarinettist, born 20th May 1971 in Oława. He graduated in 1997 from the Music Academy in Warsaw, where he had studied composition under Włodzimierz Kotoński. In 1990, he won the 2nd prize in the Andrzej Krzanowski Competition for Composers. His 3 for 13 for 13 performers (1994), commissioned by the Polish Radio, received the 1st prize in the category of young composers' works in the International Rostrum of Composers in Paris in 1995. In 1996, his Epifora [Epiphora] for piano and tape (1996), another Polish Radio commission, was granted 1st prize in the category of works by young composers, as well as a recommendation in the general category, in the 4th International Rostrum of Electroacoustic Music in Amsterdam.
Paweł Mykietyn founded Nonstrom, an ensemble in which he plays the clarinet and which has specialised in performances of contemporary music. The ensemble has a complement of four: a clarinet, a piano, a cello and a trombone. As a clarinettist, Mykietyn won the 1st prize in the Competition for Young Performers of 20th-Century Music organised by the International Society of Contemporary Music, the Polish Section, in 1995.