35 Notable Alumni of the Academy of Music of Krakow

Abel Korzeniowski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1972-.. (age 54)
Occupations: composerfilm score composer
Biography: Abel Korzeniowski is a Polish composer of film and theatre scores.

Tomasz Stańko

Born in: Poland
Years: 1942-2018 (aged 76)
Occupations: composerrecording artistfilm score composertrumpeter
Biography: Tomasz Ludwik Stańko was a Polish trumpeter and composer associated with free jazz and the avant-garde.

Wacław Kiełtyka

Born in: Poland
Years: 1981-.. (age 45)
Occupations: guitarist
Biography: Wacław "Vogg" Kiełtyka is a Polish musician, best known as the guitarist of the death metal band Decapitated. In addition to Decapitated, Wacław has been the guitarist of Lux Occulta since 1998, as well as a former member of the Kraków group Sceptic. He also worked with the death metal band Vader. He is a graduate of musical school in the first and second degree, and attended the Academy of Music in Kraków as an accordionist.

Andrzej Lampert

Born in: Poland
Years: 1981-.. (age 45)
Occupations: opera singer
Biography: Andrzej Lampert is a Polish singer, opera singer (tenor), composer, lyricist, arranger and music co-producer for his band PIN.

Zbigniew Fil

Born in: Poland
Years: 1977-.. (age 49)
Occupations: singer
Biography: Zbigniew Fil is a Polish singer and multi-instrumentalist.

Stanisław Skrowaczewski

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1923-2017 (aged 94)
Occupations: composermusic arrangerconductormusician
Biography: Stanislaw Pawel Stefan Jan Sebastian Skrowaczewski was a Polish-American classical conductor and composer.

Adam Harasiewicz

Born in: Poland
Years: 1932-.. (age 94)
Occupations: composerpianist
Biography: Adam Harasiewicz is a Polish classical concert pianist.

Halina Czerny-Stefańska

Born in: Poland
Years: 1922-2001 (aged 79)
Occupations: pianistmusic educatorcomposer
Biography: Halina Czerny-Stefańska was a Polish pianist.

Jan Wróblewski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1936-2024 (aged 88)
Occupations: composerjazz musicianauthorsaxophonistconductor
Biography: Jan "Ptaszyn" Wróblewski was a Polish jazz musician, composer and arranger. He played the tenor and baritone saxophones.

Bogusław Schaeffer

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1929-2019 (aged 90)
Occupations: playwrightmusicologistcomposermusic educatorscreenwriter
Biography: Bogusław Julian Schaeffer was a Polish composer, musicologist, and graphic artist, a member of the avant-garde "Cracow Group" of Polish composers alongside Krzysztof Penderecki and others.

Krzysztof Meyer

Born in: Poland
Years: 1943-.. (age 83)
Occupations: university teacherpianistmusicologistcomposermusic educator
Biography: Krzysztof Meyer is a Polish composer, pianist, and music scholar, formerly dean of the Department of Music Theory (1972–1975) at the State College of Music (now Academy of Music in Kraków), and president of the Polish Composers' Union (1985–1989). Meyer was professor of composition at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne from 1987 to 2008, before his retirement.

Anna Kerth

Born in: Poland
Years: 1980-.. (age 46)
Occupations: film actoractoraudiobook narrator
Biography: Anna Kerth is a Polish actress who starred in BBC Scotland's soap opera River City as Lena Krausky in 2006/2007. In Poland she is mostly known for being part of the main cast in the popular soap opera Na Wspólnej.

Marzena Diakun

Born in: Poland
Years: 1981-.. (age 45)
Occupations: conductormusician
Biography: Marzena Diakun is a Polish conductor.

Witold Rowicki

Born in: Russia
Years: 1914-1989 (aged 75)
Occupations: music educatorconductor
Biography: Witold Rowicki was a Polish conductor. He held principal conducting positions with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. Witold Lutoslawski's Concerto for Orchestra was dedicated to him.

Roman Haubenstock-Ramati

Born in: Poland
Years: 1919-1994 (aged 75)
Occupations: university teacherdesignergraphic designercomposergraphic artist
Biography: Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, born Roman Haubenstock was a composer and music editor who worked in Kraków, Tel Aviv and Vienna.

Mendi Mengjiqi

Years: 1958-.. (age 68)
Occupations: composermusician
Biography: Mendi Mengjiqi is a Kosovar composer and the author of the Kosovar national anthem.

Elżbieta Towarnicka

Born in: Poland
Years: 1950-.. (age 76)
Occupations: opera singeractor
Biography: Elżbieta Towarnicka is a Polish operatic soprano who made an international career based at the Opera Krakowska. She is also known for singing for films, especially with music by Zbigniew Preisner including the theme song of Avalon.

Daniel Stabrawa

Born in: Poland
Years: 1955-.. (age 71)
Occupations: violinistconductorconcertmaster
Biography: Daniel Stabrawa is a Polish violinist and conductor.

Regina Smendzianka

Born in: Poland
Years: 1924-2011 (aged 87)
Occupations: composerpianistmusic educatoruniversity teacher
Biography: Regina Smendzianka was a Polish pianist.

Jerzy Semkow

Born in: Poland
Years: 1928-2014 (aged 86)
Occupations: conductor
Biography: Jerzy Semkow was a Polish conductor.

Andrzej Dobber

Born in: Poland
Years: 1961-.. (age 65)
Occupations: performing artistmusicianopera singer
Biography: Andrzej Dobber is a Polish baritone, honored with the title of Kammersänger by the Senate of the City of Hamburg and awarded the silver medal for Merit to Culture - Gloria Artis by the Polish Minister of Culture.

Edyta Piasecka

Born in: Poland
Years: 1972-.. (age 54)
Occupations: opera singer
Biography: Edyta Piasecka, is a Polish soprano. She has been a resident artist at Opera Krakowska since 2002; a position she remains in as of 2024.

Joachim Grubich

Born in: Poland
Years: 1935-2025 (aged 90)
Occupations: music educatororganistmusician
Biography: Joachim Antoni Grubich was a Polish concert organist who performed internationally and an academic teacher. He served as head of the department of organ and harpsichord at the Academy of Music in Warsaw. He participated in the reconstruction of the organ in St. Anne's Church in Warsaw, and the building of a new organ in the Philharmonic Hall.

Stefania Woytowicz

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1922-2005 (aged 83)
Occupations: opera singersinger
Biography: Stefania Woytowicz was a Polish concert soprano. Woytowicz was the soprano soloist in the first public performance of Henryk Górecki's Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs), and sang the part on the first recordings of the symphony.

Piotr Orzechowski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1990-.. (age 36)
Occupations: pianistcomposerjazz musician
Biography: Piotr Orzechowski, also known by his stage name Pianohooligan, is a Polish jazz pianist and composer. He is a graduate of the Berklee College of Music in Valencia and a winner of the Montreux Jazz Piano Competition and Jazz Hoeilaart, hailed by the critics as "the most creative and uncompromising young Polish jazz artist."

Oleksandr Shchetynsky

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1960-.. (age 66)
Occupations: music educatorcomposer
Biography: Alexander Shchetynsky is a Ukrainian composer. Born on 22 June 1960 in Kharkiv, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union. His work list includes compositions in various forms ranging from solo instrumental to orchestral, choral pieces and operas.

Jan Emanuel Abras

Born in: Sweden
Years: 1975-.. (age 51)
Occupations: musicologistconductorcomposer
Biography: Juan Manuel Abras Contel is a classical music composer, conductor, musicologist and historian from Sweden. Born in Stockholm to a European family (French, Italian, etc.) that moved around the world, Abras became a cosmopolitan artist and scientist.

Dominik Wania

Born in: Poland
Years: 1981-.. (age 45)
Occupations: pianist
Biography: Dominik Wania is a Polish pianist and composer.

Zygmunt Konieczny

Born in: Poland
Years: 1937-.. (age 89)
Enrolled in the Academy of Music of Krakow: Studied in 1956-1962
Occupations: composer
Biography: Zygmunt Konieczny is a Polish composer of theatre and film music.

Jan Hoffman

Born in: Poland
Years: 1906-1995 (aged 89)
Occupations: music educatorpianist
Biography: Jan Hoffman was a Polish pianist and music educator.

Władysława Markiewiczówna

Born in: Poland
Years: 1900-1982 (aged 82)
Occupations: music educatorpianist
Biography: Władysława Markiewiczówna was a Polish pianist and renowned educator.

Ryszard Szeremeta

Born in: Poland
Years: 1952-.. (age 74)
Occupations: composer
Biography: Ryszard Szeremeta is a Polish composer of experimental music, producer of recordings, concerts and performances of electroacoustic music, jazz singer.

Anna Brożek

Born in: Poland
Years: 1980-.. (age 46)
Occupations: pianistphilosopheruniversity teachermusician
Biography: Anna Magdalena Brożek is a Polish philosopher and musician.

Marek Stachowski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1936-2004 (aged 68)
Occupations: composeruniversity teacher
Biography: Marek Stachowski was a Polish composer. He received many awards and won many competitions for composers, including first prize at the K. Szymanowski Competition in 1974.

Gabriela Moyseowicz

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1944-.. (age 82)
Occupations: composerpianist
Biography: Gabriela Maria Moyseowicz is a Polish composer and pianist.