The FCUM Brass and Woodwind Band

• Art
• • Sym­phony Orches­tra of the Fry­deryk Chopin Uni­ver­sity of Music
  • Mixed Choir of the Fry­deryk Chopin Uni­ver­sity of Music
  • Inter-College Baroque Orchestra
  • Chopin Acad­e­mia Orchestra
  • The FCUM Brass and Wood­wind Band
  • The FCUM Big-Band
  • War­saw Boys’ and Men’s Choir at the FCUM in Warsaw
  • Chopin Vocal Consort
  • War­saw Soloists Con­certo Avenna
  • Wilanów Quar­tet

The idea to cre­ate a great brass and wood­wind for­ma­tion at Warsaw’s Uni­ver­sity of Music came from Pro­fes­sor Mirosław Pokrzy­wiński (who then was head of Chair of Wood­wind and Brass Instru­ments) and was con­nected with the need to hon­our the 40^th anniver­sary cer­e­mony of this Chair. The first con­cert of the orches­tra took place on 15^th Decem­ber 1998 in the Academy’s Con­cert Hall and was con­ducted by Paweł Przy­tocki.

When Pro­fes­sor Jerzy Jeżewski was appointed a proxy of the sym­phony ensem­ble, the orches­tra started its reg­u­lar par­tic­i­pa­tion in the con­cert life of the Acad­emy, start­ing the coop­er­a­tion with Grze­gorz Mie­limąka, which lasts until today. The diver­sity of the pro­grammes per­formed by the orches­tra, col­or­ful har­monies and syn­co­pa­tion rhythms char­ac­ter­is­tic for its sound, are another musi­cal adven­ture for the stu­dents from the orches­tra, and the full Con­cert Hall every year proves that the audi­ence is very inter­ested their performances.