100 Notable alumni of
Academy of Music of Warsaw
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The Academy of Music of Warsaw is 533rd in the world, 199th in Europe, and 12th in Poland by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the Academy of Music of Warsaw sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Frédéric Chopin
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- musicianmusic educatorpedagoguevirtuosocomposer
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Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leading musician of his era, one whose "poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation".
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Władysław Szpilman
- Enrolled in the Academy of Music of Warsaw
- Studied piano
- Occupations
- writercomposersongwriterpianist
- Biography
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Władysław Szpilman was a Polish Jewish pianist, classical composer and Holocaust survivor. Szpilman is widely known as the central figure in the Roman Polanski film The Pianist, which was based on his autobiographical account of how he survived the German occupation of Warsaw. In the film, Szpilman is portrayed by American actor Adrien Brody.
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Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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- foreign ministerpoliticianmusicologistmusic educatorcomposer
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Ignacy Jan Paderewski was a Polish pianist, composer and statesman who was a spokesman for Polish independence. In 1919, he was the nation's prime minister and foreign minister during which time he signed the Treaty of Versailles, which ended World War I.
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Sanah
- Enrolled in the Academy of Music of Warsaw
- In 2019 graduated with licentiate
- In 2021 graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- vocalistcomposerlyricistviolinistpianist
- Biography
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Zuzanna Irena Grabowska, known professionally as sanah (stylized in all lowercase), is a Polish singer, songwriter, violinist, and composer. She received nationwide popularity in 2020, with the release of her single "Szampan", which became a number one hit in Poland. She later released her debut studio album Królowa dram (2020), which peaked at number one in Poland. She has gone on to release three further studio albums: Irenka (2021), Uczta (2022), and Sanah śpiewa poezyje (2022), all of which peaked at number one in Poland, and were certified diamond by the Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry. She released her fifth studio album Kaprysy on 14 June 2024.
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Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis
- Enrolled in the Academy of Music of Warsaw
- Studied in 1894-1899
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- composerpainter
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Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis was a Lithuanian composer, painter, choirmaster, cultural figure, and writer in Polish.
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Michalina Olszańska
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- musiciansingerviolinistactorwriter
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Michalina Olszańska is a Polish actress and writer. She is a daughter of actors Agnieszka Fatyga and Wojciech Olszański. She has published two novels as a teenager.
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Witold Lutosławski
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- composerpianistconductormusicologist
- Biography
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Witold Roman Lutosławski was a Polish composer and conductor. Among the major composers of 20th-century classical music, he is "generally regarded as the most significant Polish composer since Szymanowski, and possibly the greatest Polish composer since Chopin". His compositions—of which he was a notable conductor—include representatives of most traditional genres, aside from opera: symphonies, concertos, orchestral song cycles, other orchestral works, and chamber works. Among his best known works are his four symphonies, the Variations on a Theme by Paganini (1941), the Concerto for Orchestra (1954), and his cello concerto (1970).
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Jakub Józef Orliński
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- opera singerdancer
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Jakub Józef Orliński is a Polish operatic countertenor singer and breakdancer. He has performed leading roles with many opera companies, including Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House, Warsaw Grand Theatre and Oper Frankfurt.
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Hilary Koprowski
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- virologistimmunologistphysician
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Hilary Koprowski was a Polish virologist and immunologist active in the United States who demonstrated the world's first effective live polio vaccine. He authored or co-authored over 875 scientific papers and co-edited several scientific journals.
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Piotr Rubik
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- composer
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Piotr Rubik is a Polish composer of symphonic pop music for orchestra, film and theatre as well as conductor, music producer and vocalist. He gained nationwide popularity in the mid-2000s with the success of his songs Niech mówią, że to nie jest miłość (2005) and Psalm dla Ciebie (2006).
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Anna Maria Jopek
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- recording artistsinger-songwriterrecord producerlyricistpianist
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Anna Maria Jopek is a Polish vocalist, songwriter, and improviser. She represented Poland in the 1997 Eurovision Song Contest, with the song "Ale jestem" and finished 11th out of 25 participating acts; and in 2002, she collaborated on an album with jazz guitarist Pat Metheny. She has received numerous awards for her music, including Michel Legrand's Personal Award in Vitebsk in 1994, as well as all of the awards for music in Poland, together with gold and platinum records.
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Mieczysław Weinberg
- Enrolled in the Academy of Music of Warsaw
- Studied in 1939
- Occupations
- composerpianist
- Biography
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Mieczysław Weinberg was a Polish, Soviet, and Russian composer and pianist. Born in Warsaw to parents who worked in the Yiddish theatre in Poland, his early years were surrounded by music. He taught himself to play the piano at a young age and eventually became skilled enough to substitute for his father as a conductor at Warsaw's Jewish Theatre. During this period, he began to compose. At the age of 12, he started formal music lessons and soon thereafter enrolled at the Warsaw Conservatory. He studied piano with Józef Turczyński, who considered him and Witold Małcużyński as one of his best students. In 1938, Weinberg played for Josef Hofmann, who offered to teach him at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Weinberg declined, because he preferred to focus on composition instead; the invasion of Poland that initiated World War II in 1939 also made it impossible for him to accept. As the Wehrmacht advanced on Warsaw, Weinberg left his parents behind and fled with his sister towards the Soviet border. Discomfort forced his sister to turn back in mid-journey—he never saw her or the rest of his family again. During his only subsequent visit to Poland in 1966, he learned that his family had been murdered at the Trawniki concentration camp.
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Hania Rani
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- composerrecording artistpianistsinger
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Hania Rani is a Polish pianist, composer and singer.
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Bernard Ładysz
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- opera singeractor
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Bernard Ładysz was a Polish bass-baritone and actor. He performed internationally at major opera houses and festivals, and was known especially for the title roles of Mozart's Don Giovanni and Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov. His recordings include Lucia di Lammermoor alongside Maria Callas. He took part in the world premieres of Krzysztof Penderecki's opera The Devils of Loudon at the Hamburg State Opera and the bass solo in his St Luke Passion at the Salzburg Festival. As an actor, he played in several films such as The Promised Land in 1974.
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Adam Sztaba
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- composeractor
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Adam Sztaba is a Polish composer, music producer, conductor, arranger, pianist and television personality.
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Fou Ts'ong
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- composerpianist
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Fou Ts'ong was a Chinese and British pianist who was the first pianist of his national origin to achieve international recognition. He came to prominence after winning third prize and the Polish Radio Prize for the best performance of Chopin's mazurkas in the 1955 V International Chopin Piano Competition, and remained particularly known as an interpreter of Chopin's music.
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Stefan Kisielewski
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- politicianjournalistopinion journalistmusic criticwriter
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Stefan Kisielewski, nicknames Kisiel, Julia Hołyńska, Teodor Klon, Tomasz Staliński, was a Polish writer, publicist, composer and politician, and one of the members of Znak, one of the founders of the Unia Polityki Realnej, the Polish libertarian and conservative political party.
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Małgorzata Walewska
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- opera singer
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Małgorzata Walewska is a Polish opera singer, dramatic mezzo-soprano.
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Ida Haendel
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- violin teacherviolinistmusic educator
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Ida Haendel, CBE was a world renowned Polish-British-Canadian violinist. Haendel was a child prodigy, her career spanning over seven decades. She also became an influential teacher.
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Wanda Landowska
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- composermusic educatorharpsichordistpianistmusicologist
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Wanda Aleksandra Landowska was a Polish harpsichordist and pianist whose performances, teaching, writings and especially her many recordings played a large role in reviving the popularity of the harpsichord in the early 20th century. She was the first person to record Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations on the harpsichord in 1933. She became a naturalized French citizen in 1938.
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Grażyna Bacewicz
- Enrolled in the Academy of Music of Warsaw
- Studied in 1932
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- concertmastermusic educatorchoreographercomposerpianist
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Grażyna Bacewicz Biernacka was a Polish composer and violinist of Lithuanian origin. She is the second Polish female composer to have achieved national and international recognition, the first being Maria Szymanowska in the early 19th century.
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Mieczysław Karłowicz
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- composermountaineerphotographerconductorjournalist
- Biography
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Mieczysław Karłowicz was a Polish composer and conductor.
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Janusz Olejniczak
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- musiciancomposerpianistactor
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Janusz Olejniczak was a Polish classical pianist, academic teacher and actor. He made an international career as a pianist, especially with the piano music of Chopin which he played on modern and period instruments. He portrayed the composer in the 1991 film Blue Note, and played piano music in the 2002 film The Pianist, also appearing as the hand double.
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Maria Sadowska
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- composerscreenwritersingerfilm directorsongwriter
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Maria Sadowska, also credited as Marysia Sadowska or simply as Marysia, is a Polish pop singer, music producer, screenwriter and film director.
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Andrzej Korzyński
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- composerorganistpianistfilm score composerlyricist
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Andrzej Waldemar Korzyński was a Polish composer whose work ranged from some of the biggest hits from the 1960s to the early nineties, a popular children's musical ("Akademia Pana Kleksa") and scores for some of the best Polish films of the second half of the 20th century — including Andrzej Wajda's (The Birch Wood, Man of Marble) and Andrzej Żuławski's (The Devil, Possession).
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Jerzy Petersburski
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- film score composercomposerpianistconductor
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Jerzy Petersburski was a Jewish Polish pianist and composer of popular music, renowned mostly for his Tangos, some of which (such as To ostatnia niedziela, Już nigdy and Tango milonga / English and German versions: Oh, donna Clara) were milestones in popularization of the musical genre in Poland and are still widely known today, more than half a century after their creation.
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Sofia Dzerzhinskaya
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- revolutionarypoliticiancommunistpedagogue
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Sofia Sigizmundovna Dzerzhinskaya was a leading Polish Social Democrat and later Communist politician. During World War II, she was director of the Polish language Tadeusz Kościuszko radio station, broadcasting the communist message into occupied Poland.
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Jan Ekier
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- composerpianist
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Jan Stanisław Ekier was a Polish pianist and composer known for his authoritative edition of Chopin's music for the Chopin National Edition.
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Andrzej Panufnik
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- film score composercomposerpianistconductor
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Sir Andrzej Panufnik was a Polish composer and conductor. He became established as one of the leading Polish composers, and as a conductor he was instrumental in the re-establishment of the Warsaw Philharmonic orchestra after World War II. He also served as Principal Conductor of the Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Alexandre Tansman
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- film score composercomposerpianistconductor
- Biography
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Alexander Tansman was a Polish composer, pianist and conductor who became a naturalized French citizen in 1938. One of the earliest representatives of neoclassicism, associated with École de Paris, Tansman was a globally recognized and celebrated composer.
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Bronisław Huberman
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- violinistmusic educator
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Bronisław Huberman was a Polish violinist. He was known for his individualistic interpretations and was praised for his tone color, expressiveness, and flexibility. The Gibson ex-Huberman Stradivarius violin, which bears his name, was stolen twice and recovered once during the period in which he owned the instrument. Huberman is also remembered for founding the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (then known as the Palestine Symphony Orchestra) and thus providing refuge from the Third Reich for nearly 1,000 European Jews.
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Henryk Wars
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- film score composercomposerpianistconductor
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Henry Vars was a Polish-American composer, arranger and conductor whose compositions spanned popular, jazz and classical genres. He is regarded as the most important musical theatre, pop and film music composer of the interwar Poland.
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Zdzisław Karczewski
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- theatrical directoractorathletics competitor
- Biography
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Zdzisław Karczewski was a Polish film actor. He appeared in more than 30 films between 1933 and 1970.
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Roman Totenberg
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- university teachermusicianviolinistmusic educator
- Biography
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Roman Totenberg was a Polish-American violinist and educator. A child prodigy, he lived in Poland, Moscow, Berlin, and Paris, before formally immigrating to the U.S. in 1938, at age 27. He performed and taught nationally and internationally throughout his life.
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Piotr Anderszewski
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- pianistclassical pianist
- Biography
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Piotr Anderszewski is a Polish pianist and composer.
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Dorota Miśkiewicz
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- recording artistviolinistsingercomposerjazz musician
- Biography
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Dorota Miśkiewicz [dɔˈrɔta miɕˈkʲɛvit͡ʂ] is a Polish singer, songwriter, composer, and violinist.
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Jerzy Maksymiuk
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- composerpianistconductor
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Jerzy Jan Maksymiuk is a Polish composer, pianist and orchestra conductor.
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Ludomir Różycki
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- composerpianistconductormusic educator
- Biography
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Ludomir Różycki was a Polish composer, conductor and pedagogue. He was, with Mieczysław Karłowicz, Karol Szymanowski and Grzegorz Fitelberg, a member of the group of composers known as Young Poland, the intention of which was to invigorate the musical culture of their generation in their mother country.
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Marek Tomaszewski
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- pianistjazz musician
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Marek Tomaszewski is a Polish pianist. He was one half of the pianist duo Marek and Wacek with Wacław Kisielewski from 1963 until his death on 12 July 1986. He is the father of French music video director David Tomaszewski.
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Julian Fontana
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- composerpianistmusic educator
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Julian Fontana (31 July 1810 — 23 December 1869) was a Polish pianist, composer, lawyer, author, translator, and entrepreneur, best remembered as a close friend and musical executor of Polish composer Frédéric Chopin.
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Grzegorz Fitelberg
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- composermusic educatorviolinistconductormusician
- Biography
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Grzegorz Fitelberg was a Polish conductor, violinist and composer. He was a member of the Young Poland group, together with artists such as Karol Szymanowski, Ludomir Różycki and Mieczysław Karłowicz.
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Ilya Shatrov
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- composermilitary personnelconductor
- Biography
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Ilya Alekseevich Shatrov was a Russian military musician, conductor and composer. He is known for composing the waltz On the Hills of Manchuria in 1906. The waltz recounts his experiences at the Battle of Mukden during the Russo-Japanese War, and he dedicated it to one of his comrades who was killed in the battle.
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Zygmunt Noskowski
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- composermusic educatorconductorchoir directorjournalist
- Biography
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Zygmunt Noskowski was a Polish composer, conductor, and teacher.
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Witold Małcużyński
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- composermusicianclassical pianist
- Biography
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Witold Małcużyński was a distinguished Polish pianist who specialized in the works of Frédéric Chopin.
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Roger Woodward
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- composerpianist
- Biography
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Roger Robert Woodward AC OBE is an Australian classical pianist, composer, conductor, teacher and human rights activist. He is widely regarded as a leading advocate of contemporary music.
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Juozas Naujalis
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- organistmusic educatorchoir directorpedagogueconductor
- Biography
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Juozas Naujalis was a Lithuanian composer, organist and choir conductor. He is acclaimed as Lithuanian music patriarch.
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Włodek Pawlik
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- recording artistmusic educatorfilm score composercomposerjazz musician
- Biography
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Włodek Pawlik, Włodzimierz Pawlik is a Polish composer and jazz pianist. On 26 January 2014, he became the first Polish jazz musician to receive a Grammy Award, having won in the Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album category with his album Night in Calisia, recorded with Randy Brecker and the Kalisz Philharmonic Orchestra, released in the USA by Summit Records.
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Tadeusz Baird
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- film score composercomposeruniversity teachermusic educator
- Biography
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Tadeusz Baird was a Polish composer.
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Romuald Twardowski
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- composerpianistmusic educator
- Biography
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Romuald Twardowski was a Polish composer, pianist, organist and academic teacher who studied in Vilnius, Warsaw and Paris. In a style described as "developed neoclassicism", he composed operas, ballets, instrumental music and vocal works, especially sacred music for both Catholic use and the Orthodox Church. He achieved international prizes for his compositions, and many works were recorded in anthologies, including the Violin Concerto, chamber music, and sacred and secular choral music such as the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom. He was professor at the State Academy of Music in Warsaw from 1972 to 2008.
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Paul Kletzki
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- composerconductor
- Biography
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Paul Kletzki was a Polish conductor and composer.
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Aleksander Jabłoński
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- physicist
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Aleksander Jabłoński was a Polish physicist and member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. His research was in molecular spectroscopy and photophysics.
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Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński
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- composerconductorpianistmusic educator
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Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński was a Polish pianist and composer. He was the son of Ignacy Dobrzyński, the brother of Edward Dobrzyński, and the father of Bronisław Dobrzyński.
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Moshe Wilensky
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- lyricistcomposersongwriterpianist
- Biography
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Moshe Wilensky was a Polish-Israeli composer, lyricist, and pianist. He is considered a "pioneer of Israeli song" and one of Israel's leading composers, and was a winner of the Israel Prize, the state's highest honor.
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Jan Maklakiewicz
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- music criticcomposerconductormusicologist
- Biography
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Jan Adam Maklakiewicz was a Polish composer, conductor, critic, and music educator. His most known compositions belong to the choral music.
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Eugenia Umińska
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- concertmasterviolinistmusic educator
- Biography
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Eugenia Umińska was a Polish violinist.
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Alexander Kipnis
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- musicianopera singersinger
- Biography
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Alexander Kipnis was a Russian-born operatic bass. Having initially established his artistic reputation in Europe, Kipnis became an American citizen in 1931, following his marriage to an American. He appeared often at the Chicago Opera before making his belated début at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City in 1940.
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Elisabeth Chojnacka
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- harpsichordist
- Biography
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Elisabeth Chojnacka was a Polish harpsichordist living in France. She was one of the world's foremost harpsichordists specializing in the performance of contemporary harpsichord music.
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Franciszka Themerson
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- film directorfilmmakerpaintercartoonistscenographer
- Biography
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Franciszka Themerson was a Polish, later British, painter, illustrator, filmmaker and stage designer.
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Felicja Blumental
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- pianistharpsichordist
- Biography
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Felicja Blumental was a Polish pianist and composer. "She was one of the relatively few women born in the first quarter of the twentieth century to have achieved an important career as a concert pianist."
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Paweł Łukaszewski
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- composermusic educatorconductor
- Biography
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Paweł Łukaszewski is a Polish composer of contemporary classical music. He has won seven Fryderyk Awards. According to David Wordsworth, Łukaszewski is the best-known Polish composer of his generation in and out of Poland "by far" (Wordsworth 2013, p. 50).
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Olha Pasichnyk
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- opera singermusician
- Biography
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Olga Pasichnyk is a Polish-Ukrainian classical soprano singer. She lives in Poland.
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Zbigniew Drzewiecki
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- music educatorpianist
- Biography
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Zbigniew Drzewiecki was a Polish pianist who was for most of his life a teacher of pianists. He was especially associated with the interpretation of Frédéric Chopin's works. His pupils include several famous pianists of the 20th century, and his influence was therefore very pervasive.
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Tomasz Szukalski
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- saxophonist
- Biography
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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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Henryk Pachulski
- Enrolled in the Academy of Music of Warsaw
- Studied in 1876
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- pedagoguecomposerpianistmusic educator
- Biography
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Henryk Pachulski was a Polish-born pianist, composer and teacher who spent most of his life in Russia.
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Kazimierz Wiłkomirski
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- university teachercomposerconductormusic educator
- Biography
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Kazimierz Wiłkomirski; was a Polish cellist, composer and conductor. Son of Alfred Wiłkomirski, brother of Maria Wiłkomirska, Wanda Wiłkomirska and violinist Michael Wilkomirski. Graduate of the Moscow Conservatory (cello student of Alfred von Glenn).
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Piotr Perkowski
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- composer
- Biography
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Piotr Perkowski was a Polish composer.
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Konstanty Gorski
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- composermusic educatorviolinistconductorteacher
- Biography
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Konstanty Antoni Gorski was a Polish composer, violinist, organist and music teacher.
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Bolesław Przybyszewski
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- musicologistmusician
- Biography
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Boleslaw Stanislavovich Przybyszewski was a Soviet public person, teacher, and musicologist. Head of the Moscow Conservatory in 1929–1932.
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Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński
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- composerconductorpianistmusic educator
- Biography
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Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński was a Polish composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher. He was the Director of the Warsaw Conservatorium from 1922 until 1928, when he reportedly died while giving a lesson. His students included composer and pianist Jadwiga Sarnecka.
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Roman Maciejewski
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- composerpianistconductor
- Biography
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Roman Maciejewski was a Polish composer. His mother, Bronisława Maciejewska, was a talented violinist and music teacher who taught him to play piano.
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Bohdan Wodiczko
- Occupations
- music educatorconductor
- Biography
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Bohdan Wodiczko was a Polish conductor and music teacher.
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Włodzimierz Kotoński
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- university teachercomposermusicologistnon-fiction writer
- Biography
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Włodzimierz Kotoński was a Polish composer.
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Krzysztof Knittel
- Enrolled in the Academy of Music of Warsaw
- Studied in 1971
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Krzysztof Knittel is a Polish composer of symphonic, chamber, stage and electroacoustic works.
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Lucas Krupinski
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- pianist
- Biography
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Lucas Krupinski - Polish pianist, winner of the 7th San Marino International Piano Competition, semi-finalist of the XVII International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 2015.
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Bolesław Szabelski
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- pedagoguecomposerorganistmusic educator
- Biography
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Bolesław Szabelski was a Polish composer of modern classical music. While his style shifted and varied over the course of his life, he is best known for his atonal work composed during the 1950s and 1960s.
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Ana Lara
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- music educatorcomposer
- Biography
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Ana Lara is a Mexican composer.
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Iwona Sobotka
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Iwona Sobotka is a Polish soprano and Grand Prix Winner of the Queen Elizabeth Music Competition.
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Ewa Kupiec
- Occupations
- pianistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Ewa Kupiec is a Polish classical pianist.
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Stanisław Szpinalski
- Occupations
- composerpianistmusic educator
- Biography
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Stanisław Szpinalski was a Polish pianist.
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Karol Radziwonowicz
- Enrolled in the Academy of Music of Warsaw
- Studied in 1982
- Occupations
- pianist
- Biography
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Karol Mikołaj Radziwonowicz is a Polish pianist.
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Elżbieta Sikora
- Occupations
- composerfilm score composer
- Biography
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Elżbieta Sikora is a Polish composer who has been resident in France since 1981. She has composed stage, orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal, and electroacoustic works as well as film scores.
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Bolesław Kon
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- composerpianist
- Biography
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Bolesław Kon was a Polish concert pianist who won international acclaim in his brief career.
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Zbigniew Turski
- Occupations
- composerartist
- Biography
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Zbigniew Turski was a Polish composer. He was born in Konstancin and died in Warsaw. In 1948 he won a gold medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for his Symfonia Olimpijska ("Olympic Symphony").
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Janusz Wawrowski
- Occupations
- violinist
- Biography
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Janusz Wawrowski is a Polish violinist, lecturer at the Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, and director of multiple violin festivals.
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Augustyn Bloch
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Augustyn Bloch was a Polish composer and organist, student of Feliks Rączkowski and Tadeusz Szeligowski. He was an active concert organist, conducted his own music, and wrote music for the Polish Radio Theater.
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Timothee Adamowski
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- composerviolinistconductor
- Biography
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Tymoteusz "Timothee" Adamowski was a Polish-born American conductor, composer, and violinist. Born in Warsaw, he studied in that city's conservatory, later moving on to further studies in Paris. He served as the first conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra. Adamowski was the uncle of Polish Olympic hockey player Tadeusz Adamowski and the humanitarian Helenka Adamowska Pantaleoni.
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Max Fishman
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Max Shakhnovich Fishman, (December 12, 1915—September 24, 1985) was a Moldavian Soviet composer, pianist, and teacher. Fishman was raised within Jewish, Polish, and Russian cultural traditions.
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Ewa Strusińska
- Occupations
- conductor
- Biography
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Ewa Strusińska is a Polish British conductor, General Music Director (Generalmusikdirektorin / GMD) of the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Theater Görlitz-Zittau and principal conductor of the Neue Lausitzer Philharmonie in Germany. Former music director and principal conductor of Szczecin Philharmonic Orchestra, first became known to the artistic world as a laureate and prize winner at the prestigious Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition in Bamberg.
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Jerzy Lefeld
- Occupations
- composerpianistmusic educator
- Biography
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Jerzy Lefeld born 17 January 1898 in Warsaw, died on 22 February 1980 in Warsaw, was a Polish composer, pianist and a music teacher.
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Sergiusz Pinkwart
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Sergiusz Pinkwart is a Polish writer, traveler, journalist and classical musician. He is the author of novels, books for children and travel guides, and is also a television, radio and press journalist and TV personality.
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Wojciech Rajski
- Occupations
- conductor
- Biography
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Wojciech Rajski is a Polish conductor, and the founder and current Artistic Director of the Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Sopot. His recordings can be heard on such labels as Deutsche Grammophon, Dux Records, and EMI Classics.
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Witold Friemann
- Occupations
- composerpianist
- Biography
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Witold Friemann was a Polish composer, pianist, conductor and pedagogue. He was very prolific and composed more than 350 Opuses, most of which remain inedited.
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Daniel Wnukowski
- Occupations
- pianist
- Biography
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Daniel Vnukowski is a Polish Canadian pianist and classical music broadcaster.
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Erika Dobosiewicz
- Occupations
- violinist
- Biography
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Erika Dobosiewicz was a Polish born violinist who performed widely. She considered her home as Mexico. She won the International “Henryk Szeryng” Violin Competition in Mexico in 1992 and led the Theater Orchestra of Fine Arts as concertmaster.
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Paweł Kotla
- Occupations
- conductormusician
- Biography
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Paweł Kotla is a Polish-British conductor, arts manager and cultural diplomacy expert. In November 2024 he was awarded by the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage the medal Meritorious for Polish Culture.
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Michał Kondracki
- Occupations
- composerpedagogue
- Biography
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Michał Kondracki was a Polish composer. His work was part of the music event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics.
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Piotr Tomaszewski
- Years
- 1974-.. (age 51)
- Occupations
- classical guitarist
- Biography
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Piotr Tomaszewski is a classical guitarist from Poland. He has studied classical guitar since 1990 and has won awards in several competitions, as well as being a guest performer at festivals and events around Europe. Tomaszewski's repertoire includes guitar concertos and works for solo guitar, playing both modern pieces and classical works of centuries past. He also records for Spain's Channel 10, and for Polish Radio and Television.
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Eta Tyrmand
- Enrolled in the Academy of Music of Warsaw
- Studied in 1938
- Occupations
- composerpedagogue
- Biography
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Eta Moiseyevna Tyrmand was a Belarusian composer.
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Przemysław Lechowski
- Occupations
- pianist
- Biography
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Przemysław Lechowski is a Polish classical pianist.
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Andrzej Rozbicki
- Occupations
- musician
- Biography
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Andrzej Rozbicki, also known as Andrew Rozbicki, is a Polish-Canadian conductor, music educator, producer and promoter of Polish music in Canada and United States. He is the founder and artistic director of Celebrity Symphony Orchestra. He is a Music Educator with Toronto Catholic District School Board.
