He studied composition with Kazimierz Sikorski and piano with Stanisław Szpinalski at the State Higher School of Music in Łódź and graduated in 1946.
He continued in Paris, studying composition with Nadia Boulanger and piano with Lazare Lévy, before graduating in 1947-1948. Between 1946 and 1951 he performed many times as a concert pianist in Poland and abroad, but for the rest of his career, he was focused exclusively on composition. Serocki"s output is concentrated in two main spheres: orchestral music and vocal-instrumental pieces to Polish texts selected with fine discrimination.
Serocki was one of the founders, along with Tadeusz Baird, of the Warsaw Autumn international contemporary music festival.
Together with Tadeusz Baird and January Krenz he formed the composers" group Group 49. He was vice-president of the central administration of the Polish Composers" Union from 1954 to 1955.
He died, aged 58, in Warsaw.