Professor Bogumil Gadawski

	Prof. Bogumil Gadawski

He graduated from the F. Chopin Higher College of Music (now the Frederic Chopin Academy of Music) in Warsaw. He has been affiliated with his Alma Mater for more than 30 years. He was Dean of the Department of Orchestra Instruments in 1984-1990. He was twice head of the Chair of Woodwind and Brass Instruments. In 1990-1983 he was vice-rector of the AMFC. He is now full professor and teaches the bassoon and is also the vice-dean.
His students have won first prizes at Polish and international competitions. Bogumil Gadawski himself won First Prize at the Polish National Festival in Gdansk (1964). He also won merit at the Chamber Orchestra Competition in Katowice. Bogumil Gadawski not only teaches at the Frederic Chopin Academy of Music. He has also been a member of the Great Theatre Orchestra in Warsaw (the Warsaw opera orchestra) where he has been solo bassoonist since 1962 and head of the bassoon section since 2002.
Bogumil Gadawski performs solo and with chamber orchestras in Poland and abroad.

Compiled by: The Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music