23 Notable alumni of
Academy of Music of Katowice
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The Academy of Music of Katowice is 1100th in the world, 390th in Europe, and 23rd in Poland by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 23 notable alumni from the Academy of Music of Katowice sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Krystian Zimerman
- Occupations
- composerconductorpianistmusic educator
- Biography
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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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Kuba Badach
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- composermusicianvocalist
- Biography
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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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Wojciech Kilar
- Enrolled in the Academy of Music of Katowice
- Studied in 1950-1955
- Occupations
- film score composercomposerpianistuniversity teacher
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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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Henryk Górecki
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- composermusicianpedagogueclassical composermusicologist
- Biography
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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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Majka Jeżowska
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- singer
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Majka Jeżowska, is a Polish singer performing pop and children's music. She is also a part-time actress.
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Stanisław Sojka
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- composerjazz musiciansingersongwriterpianist
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Stanisław Joachim Sojka, also known as Stanisław Soyka, is a Polish jazz and pop singer, pianist and composer.
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Marcin Wasilewski
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- composerjazz musicianpianist
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Marcin Wasilewski is a Polish pianist and composer.
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Andrzej Jasiński
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- pianist
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Andrzej Jasiński is a Polish pianist.
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Jarek Śmietana
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- jazz guitaristbandleader
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Jarosław "Jarek" Śmietana was a Polish jazz guitarist, composer, and band leader.
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Anna Szarmach
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- lyricistsongwriterjazz musiciansinger
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Ania Szarmach – also known as Sharmi – is a Polish jazz and pop singer, composer and songwriter. She is a graduate of University of Music in Katowice. In 2011 she was nominated to Fryderyk music award.
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Marcin Dylla
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- musicianclassical guitarist
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Marcin Dylla is a Polish classical guitarist who has won over fifteen international classical guitar competitions.
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Tomasz Szukalski
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- saxophonist
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Tomasz Szukalski was a Polish jazz saxophonist, composer and improviser. Szukalski worked with Tomasz Stańko, Edward Vesala and Zbigniew Namysłowski. Awarded Magister of Music (Master of Arts) at Fryderyk Chopin University of Music, Warsaw. Szukalski was a revered master of tenor saxophone and his style was often compared to that of John Coltrane and Ben Webster.
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Janusz Szrom
- Occupations
- composerjazz musiciansingermusic educator
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Janusz Szrom is a Polish jazz vocalist and composer.
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Józef Świder
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- composer
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Józef Świder was a Polish composer and music teacher.
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Eugeniusz Knapik
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- composeruniversity teacherpianist
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Eugeniusz Knapik is a Polish pianist and composer of classical music best known for his 1980 chamber piece String Quartet No. 1. Knapik studied composition and piano with Henryk Górecki (1933–2010) and Czesław Stańczyk at the University of Music in Katowice. As a pianist, he has recorded widely, mainly in 20th-century music. He has won numerous prizes for his compositions, including at the Festival of Polish Piano Interpretation in Słupsk, and the International Chamber Music Competition in Vienna.
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Adam Palma
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- musicianguitarist
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Adam Palma is a Polish-British guitarist and teacher. He teaches guitar at the University of Salford.
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Jakub Molęda
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- composeractor
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Jakub "Kuba" Molęda is a Polish singer, composer and theatre actor.
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Maciej Obara
- Years
- 1981-.. (age 44)
- Occupations
- composerjazz musiciansaxophonist
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Maciej Obara is a Polish jazz musician (alto and tenor saxophone), composer and bandleader.
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Karol Stryja
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- music educatorconductor
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Karol Stryja was a Polish conductor and teacher.
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Rafał Augustyn
- Occupations
- composermusic criticpolonist
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Rafał Augustyn is a composer of classical music, and a pianist, music critic, writer and scholar of Polish philology. As a composer, he has written symphonies, chamber orchestra works, vocal and electronic music, as well as music for theatre. Since the mid-1990s, Augustyn has collaborated with visual artists, architects and photographers on numerous multimedia artworks.
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Marcin Jahr
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- jazz musician
- Biography
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Marcin Jahr is a Polish jazz drummer.
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Joanna Domańska
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- pianist
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Joanna Domańska is a Polish classical pianist and music teacher from Gliwice.
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Szczepan Kończal
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- pianist
- Biography
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Szczepan Kończal is a Polish classical pianist who has won prizes in many international music competitions held in more than a dozen different countries.
