Professor Roman Siwek

	Prof. Roman Siwek

has taught the tuba and the trombone at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw for 25 years.
He previously taught at music colleges in Kraków and Katowice. He also taught at a secondary music school in Katowice for 10 years. Several of Roman Siwek's former students are now academic teachers and hold exposed positions in the best Polish orchestras. Some have also won competitions at home and abroad.
Roman Siwek still performs as a solo trombonist in the National Philharmonic Orchestra and he used to play with the Great Symphony Orchestra of the Polish Radio and Television.
Thanks to prizes won in Prague (II) and Geneva (I) he has played in many Polish philharmonics at symphony concerts, recitals and chamber concerts, mainly with a brass quintet established by musicians from the National Philharmonic.
Roman Siwek and the Great Symphony Orchestra of the Polish Radio and Television have recorded a number of solo concerts for the Polish Radio including concerts by K. Serocki, M. Spisak, J. F. Händel, H. Tomasi, J. G. Albrechtsberger, G. Ch. Vagenseil and H. Malecki, as well as many pieces with the piano or chamber orchestra works.
Professor Siwek was head of the Chair of Chamber Music at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music for two terms of office and he was head of the Chair of Wind Instruments in 1999-2005. He organised the Polish National Trombone Festival (three times) and the Polish National Wind Instrument Ensemble Competition (also three times). Both these events are held at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music. He has frequently judged national and international wind instrument competitions. For many years he has been a program expert at the Centre for Artistic Education.

Compiled by: The Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music