Current position: Sound Engineering: Chair of Sound Engineering: Professor Andrzej Trybuła
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Professor Andrzej Trybuła
Professor Andrzej Trybuła
Professor Andrzej Trybuła

Born on 3rd November 1937 in Nowy Targ. He finished primary and secondary school and primary and secondary music school in Bytom (piano). After graduating from secondary school in 1955 he began to study at the Department of Mechanics at Cracow Polytechnic. In 1958 he was accepted to study at the Department of Sound Engineering at the State College of Music (now the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music) in Warsaw, discontinued his polytechnic studies and moved to Warsaw. He graduated with distinction in 1963.

In 1963 he married Maria Jadwiga Piotrowska by whom he has two daughters, Joanna and Marta, and five grandchildren.

In 1962 he began to work full-time with Polish Television as a music illustrator and sound engineer. Simultaneously, he co-operated as a freelancer with the Chair of Music Acoustics at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music. In 1971 he began to work full-time at the Academy as a senior assistant at the Department of Sound Engineering in Professor Antoni Karużas's class. That same year he began his post-graduate studies at the Department of Composition, Conducting and Music Theory where he studied music theory. He finished this course in 1973.

In 1973-76 Andrzej Trybuła studied at the State Higher College of Film where he graduated from the Extra-mural Higher Vocational Television Production Studies. Following his IIo artistic dissertation in 1978 he was nominated post-doctoral fellow. In October 1978 he was elected Dean of the Department of Sound Engineering for three years and was also nominated contractual docent. Following his IIo artistic dissertation in 1980 he was nominated full-time docent.

In 1991 he finished the Post-graduate School of Professional Works of Art Sales at the Department of Foreign Trade at the Warsaw School of Economics.

In 2000, together with Professor Stanisław Wieczorek, Dean of the Graphics Department, Academy of Fine Arts, he developed a syllabus for a new speciality, the Inter-College Multimedia Artistic Creation Laboratory at the Graphics Department, Academy of Fine Arts. This Laboratory, which was officially inaugurated thanks to an agreement signed by the Rectors of the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music and the Academy of Fine Arts in 2001 and ratified by the Senates of the two Academies, is still operating and Professor Andrzej Trybula is the representative for the AMFC.

In 2002 Professor Andrzej Trybula was nominated titular professor of music arts by the Polish President. He has been full professor since 2003.

He began to teach in 1971 as an assistant to the main subject: music engineering in phonography, score elaboration and sound recording. In 1975 he began to teach the following subjects independently: sound mounting, documentary recording, film projections to the history of the cinema and musical and sound elaboration of various forms of broadcasting. In 1977-1983 he taught the main subject: music engineering. He has been teaching music and sound illustration and documentary recording since 1984.

For 10 years, beginning in 1991, he co-operated with the College of World Economics at the Warsaw School of Economics where he lectured on the mass media. In 2001 he began to teach the following subjects: Multimedia at the AMFC Interdepartmental Education Studies and the Art of Sound at the Intercollegiate Multimedia Artistic Creation Laboratory.

Within his artistic responsibilities as a full-time employee of TVP until 2004 he sound-engineered and music-illustrated about 10 thousand artistic, film, feature and informational programs, programs for children and adolescents, scientific programs for the general public including over 500 feature films, 200 documentaries and 100 Television Theatre spectacles.

Andrzej Trybuła perfected his music illustrating skills with many outstanding film directors including Jerzy Antczak, Aleksander Bardini, Jan Englert, Adam Hanuszkiewicz, Zygmunt Hübner, Janusz Falk, Andrzej Konic, Olga Lipińska, Andrzej Łapicki, Janusz Majewski, Janusz Morgenstern, Stanisław Wohl, Lidia Zamkow, Andrzej Zakrzewski and Krzysztof Zanussi. He composed the music to the spectacle "September" according to Jerzy Putrament and Shakespeare's "Otello" under Andrzej Konic's direction. He has musically illustrated 21 theatre productions in Białystok, Grudziądz, Olsztyn and Warsaw.

He was awarded by the Ministry of Culture and Art in 1980 and 1987.

In 1984-86 Andrzej Trybuła chaired the Rector's Statutory Commission which developed our Academy's first statute. He was chaired the Academy Electoral Committee in term 1999-2008.









Compiled by: The Fryderyk Chopin University of Music