Marcin Stańczyk (born November 16, 1977, in Łęczyca, Poland) – Polish composer, lawyer, pedagogue and music theorist.

completed a post-graduate degree in the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome and CURSUS 1 and 2 at IRCAM, Paris.

13th Young Composers Meeting in Apeldoorn (2007), workshops with Klangforum Wien and Trilok Gurtu during La Biennale di Venezia (2007, 2008), Voix Nouvelles course with Brian Ferneyhough as a part of Royamount Foundation scholarship (2009), Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt (2010), De Musica ovvero la fabbrica della creatività in Rome with Beat Furrer (2010) and Mark Andre (2012) and also Jerwood Opera Writing Programme in Aldeburgh Centre of Music with Giorgio Battistelli (2011).

at Gaudeamus Musik Week in Amsterdam, Biennale Musica during La Biennale di Venezia, Manifeste and Season IRCAM in Paris, Bang On a Can Marathon, Noise Non-ferenc and MATA in New York, Les Espaces Sonores in Basel, Rondò in Milan, Review of Composers in Belgrade, Images sonores in Liège, Nuova Consonanza in Rome, Warsaw Autumn, Sacrum Profanum in Kraków, Festival of Premieres NOSPR in Katowice.

[4] He has been a guest lecturer at universities in France, Germany, Italy, USA, Great Britain, Israel, China, Norway and Poland.

Stańczyk is a laureate of numerous scholarships, including "Młoda Polska" ("Young Poland", 2007), ones founded by ZAIKS (2007), Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (2007, 2014), Marshal of Lodz Voivodeship (2008, 2009, 2010) and the Witold Lutosławski scholarship (2011, 2013), as well as double Coryphaeus of Polish Music Nominee (2013, 2015, Personality of the Year), an award bestowed by the Polish music community.

Marcin Stańczyk is the creator of the idea of "aftersounds", inspired by the optical phenomenon of "afterimage" explored in the 1940s by the avant-gardist Polish painter Władysław Strzemiński.

All of these pieces are recommended to be listened to with blindfolds covering the eyes in order to intensify the auditory experience by cancelling visual stimuli.