Concert calendar

The great 2-year-long cel­e­bra­tion of two jubilees – 200 years of the Fry­deryk Chopin Uni­ver­sity of Music and the 200th birth­day anniver­sary of its patron ended with an attempt to analyse its his­tory dur­ing the inter­na­tional schol­arly ses­sion “The past – for the present. Con­tri­bu­tion of Warsaw’s uni­ver­sity of music to the Euro­pean cul­ture”. Its cul­mi­na­tion were e.g. the AEC con­gress (Asso­ci­a­tion Européenne des Con­ser­va­toires), dur­ing which the uni­ver­sity hosted 330 rec­tors of the most impor­tant Euro­pean uni­ver­si­ties, or the visit of the British royal cou­ple – Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Corn­wall. Solemn cer­e­monies were also both inau­gu­ra­tions of the aca­d­e­mic year and the Feb­ru­ary Days of the Uni­ver­sity for Chopin’s birth­day anniver­sary, dur­ing which we attempted to sum up its his­tor­i­cal achieve­ments and hon­our its pro­fes­sors and employ­ees, who ren­dered great ser­vice to the uni­ver­sity, with high orders awarded by Pres­i­dent of Poland, and with depart­men­tal dec­o­ra­tions. A great sat­is­fac­tion for us were the vis­its of hon­ourable guests: min­is­ter, MPs, rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Pol­ish Epis­co­pate with Their Emi­nences Car­di­nal Józef Glemp and Car­di­nal Kaz­imierz Nycz in par­tic­u­lar. A spe­cial joy for us were fre­quent and very cor­dial vis­its of Rec­tors of great Pol­ish uni­ver­si­ties, experts in the field of musi­cal art: Their Mag­nif­i­cences Rec­tors – Pro­fe­sor Katarzyna Chałasińskia-Macukow – Rec­tor of the Uni­ver­sity of War­saw, Pro­fes­sor Marek Kraw­czyk – Rec­tor of the Med­ical Uni­ver­sity of War­saw, Pro­fes­sor Adam Kos­eski – Rec­tor of the Alek­sander Gieysz­tor Acad­emy of Human­i­ties, and many others.

Thanks to an enor­mous amount of work, great tal­ent and knowl­edge of our pro­fes­sors and the tal­ented youth under our care, the artis­tic cul­mi­na­tions of our jubilee sea­sons were almost all the 240 con­certs and per­for­mances that had been planned and com­pleted: first it was the 120 Pol­ish music evenings titled “Panorama of Pol­ish music”, and in the last sea­son it was also as many con­certs being part of the cycle “Works known and liked”. Many of these per­for­mances deserved to be called real cre­ations, and these vibrat­ing emo­tions as well as the great artis­tic acti­va­tion are what I would like to thank our per­form­ers for on behalf of all the aca­d­e­mic com­mu­nity of the FCUM. As the cur­rent year ends the fourth term of office of the present Vice-Rector for Artis­tic Affairs, I would like to express my grat­i­tude and address my kind­est thoughts to a few hun­dred com­posers and per­form­ers, who kind-heartedly delighted us dur­ing the past 15 years with their tal­ents, immensely con­tribut­ing to con­sol­i­dat­ing of the great artis­tic image of the Uni­ver­sity. Tra­di­tion­ally, I cor­dially thank its reli­able friends: Prof. Antoni Wit, Gen­eral and Artis­tic Direc­tor of the National Phil­har­monic and Walde­mar Dąbrowski, Gen­eral Direc­tor of the Great The­atre – National Opera, Hon­orary Doc­tor of Keimyung Uni­ver­sity in Daegu, a friend uni­ver­sity in South Korea, who con­stantly sup­ported the Uni­ver­sity with the far-sighted pol­icy of pro­mot­ing its most tal­ented alumni. I cor­dially thank the lau­re­ates of the FCUM Rector’s Grand Prix: Zuzanna Dziedzic, Direc­tor of the Lower Sile­sia Phil­har­monic and Prof. Czesław Grabowski, Direc­tor of the Zielona Góra Phil­har­monic, thanks to whom the com­monly orga­nized fes­ti­vals, ie. – “The Stars Pro­mote” and “The Tadeusz Wroński fes­ti­val of the Pol­ish Mas­ters of Vio­lin” – could have almost twenty edi­tions, pro­mot­ing a few hun­dred par­tic­u­larly tal­ented artists, who had the hon­our to per­form together with their mas­ters. The “Sum­mer Music Evenings” Fes­ti­val at the stu­dents’ hos­tel Dziekanka started its sec­ond decade, being a great response to Warsaw’s music demand dur­ing sum­mer hol­i­days. Thank you very much to Prof. Ryszard Zimak, cre­ator and main pro­moter of the fes­ti­val, which is such an impor­tant and valu­able event for so many rea­sons. I would also like to thank my dear co-workers from the FCUM’s Con­cert Bureau, with invalu­able Zofia Mal­colm, Beata Fiu­ga­jska and unequalled Jan Głębowski. With­out ded­i­cated work of the bureau the real­i­sa­tion of the events pro­grammed as part of quite com­pli­cated sys­tems reg­u­lat­ing the artis­tic life of the uni­ver­sity would be impos­si­ble. The whole aca­d­e­mic com­mu­nity of our Uni­ver­sity, espe­cially me, the under­signed, have an enor­mous debt of grat­i­tude towards the sub­se­quent direc­tors of the FCUM Sym­phony Orches­tra – the pre­vi­ous direc­tor Prof. Błażej Sroczyński and the newly appointed one – Prof. Jan Jeżewski, who, with their extra­or­di­nary com­pe­ten­cies and cre­ative com­mit­ment, built a great artis­tic level of the orches­tra, cre­at­ing con­di­tions nec­es­sary for achiev­ing the required tem­per­a­ture of sym­phony con­certs. And finally, my per­sonal words of grat­i­tude for three out­stand­ing artists – my friends, sub­se­quent Rec­tors of the FCUM: Pro­fes­sors Andrzej Chorosiński, Ryszard Zimak and Stanisław Moryto, I had the hon­our to coop­er­ate with. I would like to thank them very much for their con­stant super­vi­sion over the artis­tic area of the University’s activ­ity, and for their trust, which allowed me to carry out a con­sis­tent vision of artis­tic devel­op­ment of the University.

The next artis­tic sea­son, pro­grammed by the cur­rent crew, will be car­ried out by my suc­ces­sor. Leav­ing him or her an effi­cient, trans­par­ent and effec­tive sys­tem based on a multi-level order of demo­c­ra­tic choices that had been worked out through­out the past years I am con­vinced that the area of the University’s artis­tic activ­ity, if taken care of prop­erly, will develop under his or her super­vi­sion in a dynamic and har­mo­nious way.

Pro­fes­sor Roman Lasocki
Vice-rector for Artis­tic Affairs

 

 


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