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• Con­cert cal­en­dar 2012/2013
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• 25 years of the Con­cert Bureau

Ladies and Gen­tel­men!
Dear Audience!

The jubilee year of the 200^th birth­day anniver­sary of Fry­deryk Chopin, our patron, as well as the 200^th anniver­sary of exis­tence of the Fry­deryk Chopin Uni­ver­sity of Music, is over. A num­ber of words of appre­ci­a­tion were spo­ken and let­ters of thanks sent. There were numer­ous con­certs, per­for­mances and recitals. Mem­o­rable were the sounds of the 16^th Inter­na­tional Piano Com­pe­ti­tion. A ques­tion arises – what to do next? Which direc­tion is the Uni­ver­sity, whose renown is known world­wide, and whose name its great Ped­a­gogues and Stu­dents make famous in Poland and abroad by achiev­ing impor­tant artis­tic suc­cesses, going?

Nobody has illu­sions nowa­days – artis­tic achieve­ments do not just appear on their own. Apart from tal­ent of a young artist they require a huge amount of effort both from a stu­dent and a teacher work­ing in the Master-Student sys­tem. So far no bet­ter sys­tem of artis­tic edu­ca­tion has been invented. It means hard, indi­vid­ual, many hours last­ing and every­day work of stu­dents on shap­ing their artis­tic pro­file, on form­ing per­son­al­ity and image of a future artist-musician, grad­u­ate of our University.

Ignacy Jan Paderewski – alum­nus of the Insti­tute of Music, later known as the War­saw Con­ser­va­tory, gave a clear recipe for an artist: ‘one per cent of tal­ent, nine per cent of luck and ninety per cent of hard work’. What more can you say?

There­fore, here we present to the War­saw Audi­ence and to all our Dear Guests the artis­tic sea­son of 2012/2013 as an up-to-date reflec­tion of our Alma Mater, mak­ing all is effort not for its own glory but in order to edu­cate young tal­ented students.

The sea­son was planned by the out­go­ing Author­i­ties of the Uni­ver­sity, accord­ing to our tra­di­tion. Here I would like to cor­dially thank Pro­fes­sor Roman Lasocki, who for many years held the func­tion of Vice-Rector for Artis­tic Affairs, for the effort he put into select­ing the pro­gramme and sched­ul­ing con­certs. It is thanks to him, and thanks to the reli­able Con­cert Bureau that we are begin­ning the new aca­d­e­mic year with­out any disruptions.

In the pro­gramme you will find all music forms reflect­ing the aspect of the University’s musi­cal activ­ity whose image in real­ity is hid­den in lec­ture rooms. It is there that, in con­tact with the Ped­a­gogue, the Mas­ter, a new shape of vocal and instru­men­tal pieces is shaped. And it is there that, based on the expe­ri­ence of the out­stand­ing aca­d­e­mic staff, the future cre­ations of instru­men­tal con­cer­tos, opera arias and cham­ber pieces are cre­ated. There as well the reper­toire being part of the world canon and oblig­a­tory for the young and tal­ented per­form­ers is prepared.

It is worth remind­ing that a music uni­ver­sity first of all con­sists in one-to-one edu­ca­tion, not just in work of Depart­ments, Chairs and Fac­tual Units. Through dis­cus­sions with ped­a­gogues about the art and the music per­for­mance, con­certs, new album releases and music events, views and opin­ions of young artists are born. Part of them is also a con­cern about our rather hard every­day life, and about the future and per­spec­tives for the pro­fes­sion of an artist-musician.

Such is our Uni­ver­sity and as such we want to present it through the con­certs in the aca­d­e­mic year of 2012/2013. We are def­i­nitely going towards the musi­cal art based on the con­tem­po­rary the­o­ret­i­cal and prac­ti­cal knowl­edge, which in turn is based on the tal­ents of the young gen­er­a­tion of cre­ators and per­form­ers. We are going towards the cre­ation of the new gen­er­a­tion of Pol­ish artists.

Full Pro­fes­sor Ryszard Zimak, Rec­tor
Pro­fes­sor at the FCUM Klaudiusz Baran, Vice-Rector for Artis­tic Affairs