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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

