Professor Witold Osinski

Prof. Witold Osiński

Witold Osinski, sound engineer, mathematician, drummer and guitarist, graduated from Warsaw University (1982) and the Warsaw Academy of Music (1988) in the class of Professor Krystyna Diakon, continuator of the aesthetic ideas and phonographic class of one of the founders of the Department of Sound Engineering, Professor Antoni Karuzas. W. Osinski's master's dissertation on the phenomenology of phonography won an award at the Seventh Polish National Competition of Master's Dissertations (1990).
W. Osinski has been working at the Frederic Chopin Academy of Music since 1989, first as assistant, then as postdoctoral fellow (1996) and associate professor (2004). He was vice-dean in 2000-2004 and has been the dean of the Department of Sound Engineering since September 2005.
W. Osinski has been recording since 1988, mainly jazz and ambitious popular music.
He has also collaborated on the sound elaboration of theatre performances at the following theatres: Dramatyczny, Wspolczesny, Studio, Zydowski, Komedia. He has co-operated continually with Roma Music Theatre since 2000.
He has realised many recordings for the cinema, theatre and television including recordings of the Orthodox choir for Andrzej Wajda's film Nastazja and Grzegorz Ciechowski's music for Tomasz Magierski's Magic Brothers.
Witold Osinski has worked on the sound amplification of concerts and liturgies in churches and of solo and ensemble concerts in concert halls and jazz clubs.
In 1997 W. Osinski collaborated with professor Krzysztof Grabowski on the comparison of the hue of natural and artificial aftersound (KBN grant) and presented several papers at sound engineering symposia. He also conducted workshops at the Fourth Warsaw Science Festival.
W. Osinski believes that the most important part of the sound engineer's work is creation of the sonoric and spatial values of the sound image.
In his leisure time W. Osinski is a passionate mountain tourist and also plays chess and reads the works of the founding fathers of the catholic church and classical and contemporary philosophers. His favourite authors are T. Merton and C. S. Lewis.

Compiled by: The Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music