I'm very easy-going, respectful, tidy, and polite... also a vegetarian :) I'm a composer, painter, and writer currently based out of Toronto/Montreal/Waterloo, and I am currently the Artistic Director of the Waterloo Region Contemporary Music Sessions, an international workshop/festival for emerging composers, improvisers, and performers of contemporary music. I moved to Canada when I was 4 - I'm still fluent in my native Polish, and often translate Polish poetry into English. My name is spelt Andrzej, but pronounced Ahndjay :) If you're curious to hear some of the music I write I have a page on soundcloud where I keep recordings (soundcloud.com/andrzej-tereszkowski). Feminist and LGBTQ friendly :)

Perché sono iscritto su Couchsurfing

I love meeting new people and few things are as lovely as a good conversation. I travel frequently to visit my partner in Burlington Vermont, especially through Montreal (where I'm hoping to move to for good shortly).

Interessi

• arts
• poetry
• photography
• cooking
• gardening
• politics
• board games
• chess
• traveling
• painting
• music
• classical music
• guitar
• cycling
• history
• languages
• travel
• feminism
• composing
• classical guitar

Musica, film e libri

I don't do overall favourites well, but I'll do my best:

Movies: The Darjeeling Limited, Barry Lyndon, Wristcutter's: A Love Story, Marie Antoinette, Beasts of the Southern Wild

Books: The Setting Sun, The Windup Bird Chronicle, The Bell Jar, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, No Ashes in the Fire

Music:
For Classical: Saariaho, Grisey, Murail, Vivier, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Penderecki, Lutoslawski
For Popular Music: Bjork, Kendrick Lamar, Bosnian Rainbows, Chromatics, Minden, MGMT, Future States

Una cosa incredibile che ho fatto

I once (twice, actually) performed a piece of music that involved swinging a speaker and lights on 12 feet of rope over my head for 30 minutes at a time... I performed this at Massey Hall in Toronto for Nuit Blanche in 2009, on a platform built in the rafters, with a harness in case I fell the 30 feet or so to the ground...

Insegna, impara, condividi

Music!
Polish, English, French
Poetry
Literature
History
All things food

Cosa posso offrire ai padroni di casa

A bottle of wine or beer

Paesi che ho visitato

Canada, Cuba, Denmark, Iceland, Italy, Poland, United States

Paesi in cui ho vissuto

Canada, Poland