36 Notable alumni of
Academy of Music of Krakow

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The Academy of Music of Krakow is 1122nd in the world, 397th in Europe, and 24th in Poland by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 36 notable alumni from the Academy of Music of Krakow sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.

  1. Krzysztof Penderecki

    Krzysztof Penderecki
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1933-2020 (aged 87)
    Enrolled in the Academy of Music of Krakow
    Studied in 1954-1958
    Occupations
    composerconductorpedagoguemusic teacherviolinist
    Biography

    Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki was a Polish composer and conductor. His best-known works include Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima, Symphony No. 3, his St Luke Passion, Polish Requiem, Anaklasis and Utrenja. His oeuvre includes four operas, eight symphonies and other orchestral pieces, a variety of instrumental concertos, choral settings of mainly religious texts, as well as chamber and instrumental works.

  2. Wojciech Kilar

    Wojciech Kilar
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1932-2013 (aged 81)
    Occupations
    pianistcomposerfilm score composer
    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.

  3. Abel Korzeniowski

    Abel Korzeniowski
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1972-.. (age 52)
    Occupations
    film score composercomposer
    Biography

    Abel Korzeniowski is a Polish composer of film and theatre scores.

  4. Tomasz Stańko

    Tomasz Stańko
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1942-2018 (aged 76)
    Occupations
    recording artistcomposertrumpeterfilm score composer
    Biography

    Tomasz Ludwik Stańko was a Polish trumpeter and composer. Stańko was associated with free jazz and the avant-garde.

  5. Wacław Kiełtyka

    Wacław Kiełtyka
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1981-.. (age 43)
    Occupations
    pianistmusician
    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.

  6. Andrzej Lampert

    Andrzej Lampert
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1981-.. (age 43)
    Occupations
    opera singer
    Biography

    Andrzej Lampert is a Polish singer, opera singer (tenor), composer, lyricist, arranger and music co-producer for his band PIN.

  7. Zbigniew Fil

    Zbigniew Fil
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1977-.. (age 47)
    Occupations
    singer
    Biography

    Zbigniew Fil is a Polish singer and multi-instrumentalist.

  8. Stanisław Skrowaczewski

    Stanisław Skrowaczewski
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1923-2017 (aged 94)
    Occupations
    conductorcomposer
    Biography

    Stanislaw Pawel Stefan Jan Sebastian Skrowaczewski was a Polish-American classical conductor and composer.

  9. Adam Harasiewicz

    Adam Harasiewicz
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1932-.. (age 92)
    Occupations
    pianistcomposer
    Biography

    Adam Harasiewicz is a Polish classical concert pianist.

  10. Halina Czerny-Stefańska

    Halina Czerny-Stefańska
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1922-2001 (aged 79)
    Occupations
    music teacherpianistcomposer
    Biography

    Halina Czerny-Stefańska was a Polish pianist.

  11. Bogusław Schaeffer

    Bogusław Schaeffer
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1929-2019 (aged 90)
    Occupations
    music criticmusicianscreenwritermusic teachercomposer
    Biography

    Bogusław Julian Schaeffer was a Polish composer, musicologist, and graphic artist, a member of the avantgarde "Cracow Group" of Polish composers alongside Krzysztof Penderecki and others.

  12. Zygmunt Konieczny

    Zygmunt Konieczny
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1937-.. (age 87)
    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.

  13. Anna Kerth

    Anna Kerth
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1980-.. (age 44)
    Occupations
    actorfilm actoraudiobook 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.

  14. Krzysztof Meyer

    Krzysztof Meyer
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1943-.. (age 81)
    Occupations
    pianistuniversity teachermusic teachercomposermusicologist
    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 Union of Polish Composers (1985–1989). Meyer was professor of composition at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne from 1987 to 2008, before his retirement.

  15. Witold Rowicki

    Witold Rowicki
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1914-1989 (aged 75)
    Occupations
    conductormusic teacher
    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.

  16. Marzena Diakun

    Marzena Diakun
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1981-.. (age 43)
    Occupations
    conductor
    Biography

    Marzena Diakun is a Polish conductor.

  17. Mendi Mengjiqi

    Mendi Mengjiqi
    Years
    1958-.. (age 66)
    Occupations
    musiciancomposer
    Biography

    Mendi Mengjiqi is a Kosovar composer and the author of the Kosovar national anthem.

  18. Roman Haubenstock-Ramati

    Roman Haubenstock-Ramati
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1919-1994 (aged 75)
    Occupations
    designeruniversity teachergraphic artistcomposergraphic designer
    Biography

    Roman Haubenstock - since 1943 Roman Haubenstock-Ramati was a composer and music editor who worked in Kraków, Tel Aviv and Vienna.

  19. Elżbieta Towarnicka

    Elżbieta Towarnicka
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1950-.. (age 74)
    Occupations
    actoropera singer
    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.

  20. Daniel Stabrawa

    Daniel Stabrawa
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1955-.. (age 69)
    Occupations
    violinistconcertmasterconductor
    Biography

    Daniel Stabrawa is a Polish violinist and conductor.

  21. Jan Wróblewski

    Jan Wróblewski
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1936-.. (age 88)
    Occupations
    jazz musicianclarinetistcomposerradio personalityauthor
    Biography

    Jan "Ptaszyn" Wróblewski is a Polish jazz musician, composer and arranger. He plays the tenor and baritone saxophones.

  22. Regina Smendzianka

    Regina Smendzianka
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1924-2011 (aged 87)
    Occupations
    music teacherpianistcomposer
    Biography

    Regina Smendzianka was a Polish pianist.

  23. Jerzy Semkow

    Jerzy Semkow
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1928-2014 (aged 86)
    Occupations
    conductor
    Biography

    Jerzy Semkow was a Polish conductor.

  24. Andrzej Dobber

    Andrzej Dobber
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1961-.. (age 63)
    Occupations
    performing artistopera 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.

  25. Piotr Orzechowski

    Piotr Orzechowski
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1990-.. (age 34)
    Occupations
    pianistjazz musiciancomposer
    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."

  26. Edyta Piasecka

    Edyta Piasecka
    Years
    20th Century
    Occupations
    opera singer
    Biography

    Edyta Piasecka is a Polish dramatic coloratura soprano.

  27. Oleksandr Shchetynsky

    Oleksandr Shchetynsky
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1960-.. (age 64)
    Occupations
    composermusic teacher
    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.

  28. Jan Emanuel Abras

    Jan Emanuel Abras
    Born in
    Sweden Flag Sweden
    Years
    1975-.. (age 49)
    Occupations
    musicologistcomposerconductor
    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.

  29. Dominik Wania

    Dominik Wania
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1981-.. (age 43)
    Occupations
    pianist
    Biography

    Dominik Wania is a Polish pianist and composer.

  30. Jan Hoffman

    Jan Hoffman
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1906-1995 (aged 89)
    Occupations
    pianistmusic teacher
    Biography

    Jan Hoffman was a Polish pianist and music educator.

  31. Władysława Markiewiczówna

    Władysława Markiewiczówna
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1900-1982 (aged 82)
    Occupations
    pianistmusic teacher
    Biography

    Władysława Markiewiczówna was a Polish pianist and renowned educator.

  32. Anna Brożek

    Anna Brożek
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1980-.. (age 44)
    Occupations
    pianistmusicianuniversity teacherphilosopher
    Biography

    Anna Magdalena Brożek is a Polish philosopher and musician.

  33. Marek Stachowski

    Marek Stachowski
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1936-2004 (aged 68)
    Occupations
    composer
    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.

  34. Ryszard Szeremeta

    Ryszard Szeremeta
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1952-.. (age 72)
    Occupations
    composer
    Biography

    Ryszard Szeremeta is a Polish composer of experimental music, producer of recordings, concerts and performances of electroacoustic music, jazz singer.

  35. Janina Garścia

    Janina Garścia
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1920-2004 (aged 84)
    Occupations
    composer
    Biography

    Janina Gressel was a Polish composer, pianist, and teacher.

  36. Gabriela Moyseowicz

    Gabriela Moyseowicz
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1944-.. (age 80)
    Occupations
    pianistcomposer
    Biography

    Gabriela Maria Moyseowicz is a Polish composer and pianist.