Zbigniew Bargielski, composer; b. 21st January 1937 in Łomża. He studied law at Maria Skłodowska-Curie University in Lublin (1954-57). In 1958, he began his composition study in the State Higher School of Music in Warsaw with Tadeusz Szeligowski, and after the latter’s death - with Bolesław Szabelski in the State Higher School of Music in Katowice, from which he graduated in 1964. In 1966-67 he continued his studies with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, and in 1972 - in Hochschule für Musik in Graz. In 1986, he received a scholarship of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst. His works have been performed in many European countries, in the USA, Australia and South America. Besides composing, he is a writer and music teacher. Since 2002 he has been teaching composition in Bydgoszcz Music Academy.
Zbigniew Bargielski has won numerous competitions for composers. In 1965 he was awarded 1st prize in the Young Composers’ Competition of the Polish Composers’ Union for 'Parades' for orchestra (1965). His 'String Quartet No.1 - Alpine' (1976) won him the 2nd prize in the Artur Malawski competition for composers in Cracow in 1976 and was the selected work of the International Rostrum for Composers in Paris in 1981. 'A Dream’s Just a Dream' for tenor and piano to words by Kazimierz Wierzyński (1982) took 3rd prize in the Karol Szymanowski competition in 1982. In 1995 his 'Trigonalia' for guitar, accordion, percussion and chamber orchestra (1994) received a recommendation of the International Rostrum for Composers in Paris.

In 2001, he received the Award of the Polish Composers’ Union.

He lives recently in Vienna.