Aleksander Kościów – b. 1974 in Opole, Poland. In 1993-1998, he studied composition under the direction of Marian Borkowski, and in 1994-1998, viola in the class of Błażej Sroczyński at the Academy of Music in Warsaw. NeoQuartet is a string quartet of music academy graduates from Gdańsk, Warsaw, and Lucerne. Its members are: Karolina Piątkowska-Nowicka (first violin), Paweł Kapica (second violin), Michał Markiewicz (viola), and Krzysztof Pawłowski (cello). The quartet specializes in the performance of new music, and takes as its chief goal the promotion of works by young composers. The members of NeoQuartet are aficionados of contemporary music eager for groundbreaking explorations and open to collaboration with the most demanding of artists. The main work - String Quartet no. 10 (2013) is representative of the ‘open work’ concept: the form as whole consists of eight movements, but their disposition (sequence), as well as number within a single performance is free (i.e. eight as a maximum, just one as a minimum).