Professor Stanislaw Moryto

Professor Stanislaw Moryto

Rector

Professor Stanislaw Moryto was born in Lack near Nowy Sacz on May 8 1947. He studied the organ with Professor Feliks Raczkowski and Composition with Professor Tadeusz Paciorkiewicz. He graduated from the Chopin Academy of Music in 1971 (organ) and 1974 (composition). At present he is Professor at the Chair of Composition and Rector of the Frederic Chopin Academy of Music. In 1996-2002 he was Deputy Rector of the Academy and in 2002-2005 he was Dean of the Department of Composition, Conducting and Music Theory. He also teaches at the Elsner School of Music in Warsaw. Professor Moryto is the initiator of an editorial series of organ works and an edition of works by contemporary Polish composers. He was co-editor of such works as the 16th-century Cracow Organ Tabulature (two volumes), the Gdansk Organ Tabulature from 1591, the Warsaw Organ Tabulature from the 18th century, and the first editions of works by contemporary Polish Composers.

Professor Moryto has performed throughout Europe in Poland, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Spain, Germany, Hungary, and Italy. He has made many recordings of organ music for Polish and foreign broadcasting companies as well as for recording companies, such as Polskie Nagrania, Polonia Records, MTJ, Sonoton Pro Viva in Munich, and HZ Edition in Berlin.

He was President of the Polish Musical Youth Association (1973-1981) and President of the Polish Musical Institute (1981-1997). He is the founder and artistic director of the Organ Music Conversatorium Festival in Legnica.

Professor Moryto has received many awards at compositional competitions. His works have been performed at concerts and music festivals in Poland and abroad (Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, United Kingdom, Hungary, The Netherlands, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Lithuania, Germany, Norway, Slovakia, South Korea Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, and USA).

Compiled by: The Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music