Arts

The University Concert Hall
The Uni­ver­sity Con­cert Hall

The Uni­ver­sity is involved in very ani­mated con­cert activ­i­ties. Con­certs are both part of the process of edu­ca­tion of young musi­cians and an out­let for the faculty’s artis­tic and sci­en­tific activ­ity. The pur­pose of the con­certs is to pop­u­larise the University’s achieve­ments and to spread music among Warsaw’s music lovers. The Uni­ver­sity has reg­u­lar Wednes­day con­certs — large sym­phony con­certs, ora­to­rios, recitals and cham­ber con­certs, occa­sional stu­dent recitals and audi­tions and also stu­dent opera pro­duc­tions.

Sev­eral com­pe­ti­tions take place at the Uni­ver­sity: The Tadeusz Wroński Inter­na­tional Solo Vio­lin Com­pe­ti­tion, the Wanda Landowska Harp­si­chord Com­pe­ti­tion and the Witold Lutosławski Inter­na­tional Cello Com­pe­ti­tion.

The Uni­ver­sity also has its own Sym­phony Orches­tra made up of stu­dents of the Depart­ment of Instru­men­tal Stud­ies (mem­ber­ship is com­pul­sory). The Sym­phony Orches­tra gives about 10 con­certs a year. It has co-operated with many dis­tin­guished con­duc­tors: Krzysztof Bie­gański, Vio­letta Bielecka, Mirosław Jacek Błaszczyk, Piotr Borkowski, Łukasz Borow­icz, Andrzej Borzym jr, Tomasz Bugaj, Woj­ciech Czepiel, Hen­ryk Czyż, Ryszard Dudek, Michał Dworzyński, Michael Gläser, Czesław Grabowski, José Maria Florén­cio, Władysław Kabalewski, Szy­mon Kawalla, Jacek Kasp­szyk, Michał Klauza, Benedykt Konowal­ski, Kaz­imierz Kord, Jan Krenz, Krzysztof Kusiel-Moroz, Pavel Lando, Larry Liv­ingston, Witold Lutosławski, Bogusław Madey, Jerzy Maksymiuk, Maja Metel­ska, Woj­ciech Mich­niewski, Marcin Nałęcz-Niesiołowski, Michał Nes­terow­icz, Maciej Niesiołowski, Grze­gorz Nowak, Mieczysław Nowakowski, Krzysztof Pen­derecki, Marek Pijarowski, Janusz Powolny, Janusz Przy­byl­ski, Paweł Przy­tocki, Woj­ciech Rajski, Arnold Rezler, Witold Row­icki, Zyg­munt Rychert, Jerzy Sal­warowski, Jerzy Semkow, Ruben Silva, Andrzej Straszyński, Jerzy Swo­boda, Evgeny Volyn­sky, Bruno Weil, Tadeusz Wicherek, Kaz­imierz Wiłkomirski, Stanisław Wisłocki, Antoni Wit, Bohdan Wod­iczko, Tadeusz Woj­ciechowski, Monika Wolińska, Sławek A. Wróblewski, Ryszard Zimak.

The University Choir
The Uni­ver­sity Choir

Another orches­tra, the Chopin Acad­e­mia Orches­tra, was estab­lished in 1995. Jan Stanienda takes care of it. This 15-member string ensem­ble (which is enlarged if nec­es­sary) is made up of stu­dents. It plays baroque music (Bach, Corelli, Vivaldi), clas­si­cal music (Beethoven, Mozart) and mod­ern music (mostly by Pol­ish com­posers).

The Uni­ver­sity Choir is made up of first and sec­ond year stu­dents from Depart­ments 1, 2, 6 and part of Depart­ment 3, about 100 mem­bers in all. In the period of 1982–2006 the artis­tic direc­tor of the choir was prof. Ryszard Zimak; at present this func­tion is held by prof. Krzysztof Kusiel-Moroz. Its major pro­duc­tions include: Mag­ni­fi­cat and Mass in B Minor by J. S. Bach, Requiem by W. A. Mozart and G. Fauré, Sta­bat Mater by F. Poulenc and K. Szy­manowski and many pieces a capella. The Uni­ver­sity has a cham­ber choir — the Chopin Vocal Con­sort — which spe­cialises in early choir music from Renais­sance to baroque. It also houses the War­saw Boys Choir led by Krzysztof Kusiel-Moroz. The choir sings music from all his­tor­i­cal peri­ods. The choir is the place where stu­dents from Depart­ment 5 can prac­tice and it also gives many per­for­mances.


Con­cert Bureau
Zofia Mal­colm, Beata Fiu­ga­jska and Mag­dalena Kowal­czyk from the Con­cert Bureau are always will­ing to pro­vide infor­ma­tion about cur­rent con­certs, com­pe­ti­tions and other sim­i­lar events. The bureau is in room 207,
tel. (48 22) 827 72 41 ext. 235
e-mail: bk@chopin.edu.pl


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