Current position: Piano, Harpsihord and Organ: Chair of Piano: Prof. Maria Stojek-Kot
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Professor Maria Stojek-Kot
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Professor
Maria Stojek-Kot
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Maria Stojek-Kot began her musical education at the State Music School in Gdynia where she studied the piano under Wanda Machulska (a former student of J. Lefeld). She finished this school with honours. When still a pupil she took part in a concert of gifted children at the Music Theatre in Gdynia and the Baltic Philharmonic. In 1968-1972 she continued her musical education at the Secondary Music School in Gdańsk which she also finished with honours. While she attended this school she was granted a Chopin scholarship. In 1972-1977 she studied at the State Higher School of Music in Professor Kazimierz Gierżod's class and graduated with honours. As a distinguished graduate she was honoured with a performance at the National Philharmonic where she played S. Rachmaninoff?s Piano Concerto F Sharp Minor. The last step in her education was a scholarship at the Moscow Conservatory in the class of Pawel Messner (Emil Gilels's assistant). As a scholarship holder she gave several concerts in Moscow. She began to work as an assistant in professor Kazimierz Gierżod's class at the State Higher School of Music in Warsaw (now the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music) in 1977. She now works at the 2nd Chair of Piano at the AMFC where she is an associate professor. She has been rewarded for her teaching many times:
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Professor Maria Stojek-Kot in Taegu
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- Second Class Award of the Minister of Culture and Art, 1979,
- Second Class Award of the Rector of the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music, 1986,
- Third Class Award of the Rector of the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music, 1988,
- Second Class Award of the Rector of the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music, 2002.
- She also received the medal of honour "Distinguished for Polish Culture" from the Minister of Culture.
She has performed at home and abroad, e.g., in Hungary, Finland, Germany, France, Romania (among others at the UNESCO Centre in Busteni),
Ukraine and South Korea. She has co-operated with the National Philharmonic Chamber Stage and the Baltic Philharmonic. She has also taught a piano class at the Keimyung - F. Chopin Academy of Music in Daegu, South Korea in the summer semesters of 2002 and 2005.
She is a consultant for primary and secondary artistic schools at the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and a Ministry of National Education Expert for Promotions of primary and secondary school music teachers. She has conducted open classes in Poland and Master Classes in Ukraine and South Korea. She has been invited to judge auditions and competitions.
Compiled by: The Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music