Academy of Music of Katowice Rankings

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Type

Non-profit

Funding

Public-private
partnership

Highest Degree

Master

Website

am.katowice.pl

Languages

Polish

Acceptance rate

70%*

* The Academy of Music of Katowice is among the institutions that don't provide data on acceptance rates. This might happen because the university has programs where applicants only need to meet admission requirements to enroll and don't necessarily compete with others.

We estimate the above acceptance rate based on admission statistics of closely ranked nearby universities with similar research profiles that do publish such data.

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Academy of Music of Katowice alumni

1. Krystian Zimerman

   

   Born in

   Poland

   Years

   1956-.. (age 69)

   Occupations

   composerconductorpianistmusic educator

   Biography

   Krystian Zimerman is a Polish concert pianist, conductor and pedagogue who has been described as one of the greatest pianists of his generation. In 1975, he won the IX International Chopin Piano Competition.

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2. Kuba Badach

   

   Born in

   Poland

   Years

   1976-.. (age 49)

   Occupations

   composermusicianvocalist

   Biography

   Kuba Badach is a Polish singer, composer, arranger, music producer, music journalist and television personality. He's a co-founder and member of the band Poluzjanci and member of the band The Globetrotters. He's been nominated for the two Fryderyk awards.

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3. Wojciech Kilar

   

   Born in

   Ukraine

   Years

   1932-2013 (aged 81)

   Enrolled in the Academy of Music of Katowice

   Studied in 1950-1955

   Occupations

   film score composercomposerpianistuniversity teacher

   Biography

   Wojciech Kilar was a Polish classical and film music composer. One of his greatest successes came with his score to Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula in 1992, which received the ASCAP Award and the nomination for the Saturn Award for Best Music. In 2003, he won the César Award for Best Film Music written for The Pianist, for which he also received a BAFTA nomination. In 2012, he became the recipient of Poland's highest distinction, the Order of the White Eagle.

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4. Henryk Górecki

   

   Born in

   Poland

   Years

   1933-2010 (aged 77)

   Occupations

   composermusicianpedagogueclassical composermusicologist

   Biography

   Henryk Mikołaj Górecki was a Polish composer of contemporary classical music. According to critic Alex Ross, no recent classical composer has had as much commercial success as Górecki. He became a leading figure of the Polish avant-garde during the post-Stalin cultural thaw. His Anton Webern-influenced serialist works of the 1950s and 1960s were characterized by adherence to dissonant modernism and influenced by Luigi Nono, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Krzysztof Penderecki and Kazimierz Serocki. He continued in this direction throughout the 1960s, but by the mid-1970s had changed to a less complex sacred minimalist sound, exemplified by the transitional Symphony No. 2 and the Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs). This later style developed through several other distinct phases, from such works as his 1979 Beatus Vir, to the 1981 choral hymn Miserere, the 1993 Kleines Requiem für eine Polka and his requiem Good Night.

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