CHAIR OF PIANO CHAMBER MUSIC

• Piano, Harp­si­chord and Organ
  • Chair of Piano
  • Chair of Organ and Harpsichord
  • Chair of Piano Cham­ber Music

home page KKF
e-mail: kkf@chopin.edu.pl

An autonomous group of pianists-pedagogues who teach cham­ber music at Depart­ment 2 (Depart­ment of Piano, Harp­si­chord and Organ) and pianists-tutors who are directly involved in teach­ing instru­men­tal and vocal skills at per­for­mance depart­ments of the uni­ver­sity. Under­go­ing a num­ber of tur­bu­lent changes in the mean­time, by deci­sion of the FCUM Sen­ate of 2002, the Chair was revived after a few years of non-existing; cur­rently it is headed by Full Pro­fes­sor Maja Nosowska.
The idea to cre­ate this orig­i­nal struc­ture (Chair of Piano Cham­ber Music, KKF), which by its prin­ci­ple put an equal­ity mark between solo and cham­ber play­ing regard­ing these two types of activ­ity as a canon for edu­cat­ing a pro­fes­sional musi­cian of our times, comes from its founder Jerzy March­wiński, just like the term piano cham­ber music itself does, which cov­ers all non-solo activ­ity of a pianist.
The cen­tral idea of our activ­ity is music part­ner­ship, and the main focus of the Chair is edu­cat­ing pianists in cham­ber artis­tic per­for­mance in its most var­ied forms – as well as prepar­ing them to work as pianists in the future – both from the artis­tic and prac­ti­cal, as well as psy­cho­log­i­cal point of view.
The ele­ments of this pro­fes­sion are such skills as: coop­er­a­tion with the instru­ment, with a singer, play­ing with a sec­ond pianist, play­ing in big­ger cham­ber groups (e.g. a trio or a quar­tet), play­ing in an orches­tra, bal­let, opera, as well as var­i­ous forms of didac­tic work – from teach­ing stu­dents at schools to teach­ing (coach­ing) mature artists.

The basic cur­rent activ­i­ties of the Chair of Piano Cham­ber Music

• didac­tics – teach­ing artis­tic per­for­mance within the whole area of cham­ber music in close coop­er­a­tion with the Chair of Piano, the Chair of Vocal Stud­ies and the Inter­de­part­men­tal Chair of Cham­ber Music – in con­nec­tion with con­cert and com­pe­ti­tion per­for­mances, in a record­ing stu­dio and with interuni­ver­sity exchange;
• artis­tic train­ing — acces­si­ble to both Pol­ish and for­eign stu­dents (and con­ducted in Eng­lish, French, Ger­man and Russ­ian). These courses offer a num­ber of options, e.g., train­ing for com­pe­ti­tions, extend­ing one’s reper­toire, focus­ing on coop­er­a­tion with singers, improv­ing pro­fes­sional qual­i­fi­ca­tions of teach­ers of the subject;
• post­grad­u­ate stud­ies in the so-called ‘opera coach­ing’ – (appli­ca­tions accepted until 30th August of each aca­d­e­mic year; pos­si­ble addi­tional enrol­ment in the sec­ond semes­ter of an aca­d­e­mic year);
• orga­ni­za­tion of theme con­certs — being part of the university’s con­cert cal­en­dar, reg­u­lar con­certs at the Col­lege of Europe in War­saw, Depart­ment of Math­e­mat­ics (Uni­ver­sity of War­saw), War­saw Music Soci­ety, Praga Cul­ture Cen­tre and oth­ers; in the next con­cert sea­son of 2011-12 planned are such con­certs as: ‘In Mem­ory of Pro­fes­sor Maciej Paderewski” (3^rd Octo­ber 2011), ‘The Evening of Sonatas’ (23^rd Jan­u­ary 2012) and a cham­ber music con­cert of ‘The Group of Six’ (21^st May 2012);
• mas­ter courses – e.g. annual Inter­na­tional Courses of Inter­pre­ta­tion and Music Fes­ti­vals in Nowy Sącz — orga­nized by Pro­fes­sor Bar­bara Hal­ska; course run by Maciej Pikul­ski (Paris) Decem­ber 2011, mas­ter course run by Pro­fes­sor Ewa Podleś and Jerzy March­wiński – Decem­ber 2011;
• orga­ni­za­tion of sym­posia — every year as part of the ‘Part­ner­ship in Music’ cycle; the con­fer­ence planned in the next aca­d­e­mic year is the all-Poland interuni­ver­sity and cham­ber music chairs’ con­fer­ence devoted to the con­se­quences of sys­tem changes in Pol­ish (and Euro­pean) artis­tic edu­ca­tion in con­nec­tion with intro­duc­ing the two-level sys­tem of edu­ca­tion, together with the pro­mo­tion of a new pub­li­ca­tion by Pro­fes­sor Jerzy Marchwiński;
• com­pe­ti­tions - Inter­na­tional Piano Duo Com­pe­ti­tion in Białys­tok — the near­est one will take place in Sep­tem­ber 2011; the 1^st All-Poland Com­pe­ti­tion of Duos with Piano – Feb­ru­ary 2012;
• pub­lish­ing activ­ity;
• coop­er­a­tion with pri­mary and sec­ondary music schools, run­ning work­shop for the music youth (e.g. in coop­er­a­tion with the Cen­tre of Artis­tic Edu­ca­tion), orga­niz­ing and run­ning method­olog­i­cal con­sul­ta­tion and train­ing courses for teach­ers (e.g., sum­mer courses in Nowy Sącz), con­sul­ta­tion and devel­op­ment of syl­labuses for pri­mary and sec­ondary music schools, par­tic­i­pa­tion in jury of cham­ber music com­pe­ti­tions for the youth.

Chair Mem­bers

Research and teach­ing faculty

Pro­fes­sor Maja Nosowska - Head of the Chair, e-mail: nosek@chopin.edu.pl
Pro­fes­sor Krystyna Borucińska-Żarnecka
Pro­fes­sor Krystyna Makowska-Ławrynowicz
Pro­fes­sor Andrzej Guz
Pro­fes­sor Katarzyna Jankowska-Borzykowska
Pro­fes­sor Leszek Kot, DA Hab. (Depart­ment of Instru­men­tal and Edu­ca­tional Stud­ies in Białys­tok)
Pro­fes­sor Jerzy Maciejew­ski (Depart­ment of Instru­men­tal and Edu­ca­tional Stud­ies in Białys­tok)
Pro­fes­sor Maciej Piotrowski
Pro­fes­sor Ella Susmanek-Mysińska
Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor Urszula Izbicka (Depart­ment of Instru­men­tal and Edu­ca­tional Stud­ies in Białys­tok)
Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor Joanna Ławrynowicz-Just
Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor Bożena Maciejowska-Banaszkiewicz (Depart­ment of Instru­men­tal and Edu­ca­tional Stud­ies in Białys­tok)
Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor Joanna Mak­lakiewicz
Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor Iwona Miro­niuk
Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor Anna Misior (Depart­ment of Instru­men­tal and Edu­ca­tional Stud­ies in Białys­tok)
Senior Lec­turer Robert Morawski
Senior Lec­turer Anna Szwengier (Depart­ment of Instru­men­tal and Edu­ca­tional Stud­ies in Białys­tok)
Assis­tant Bar­tosz Bed­nar­czyk
Assis­tant Grze­gorz Skrobiński

Guests

Pro­fes­sor Jerzy March­wiński, e-mail: jmarchwinski@gmail.com
Pro­fes­sor Bar­bara Hal­ska
Pro­fes­sor Irena Pro­tasewicz
Senior Lec­turer Bogna Hałacz
Senior Lec­turer Agnieszka Kozło, DA
Senior Lec­turer Lidia Krzyżanowska
Senior Lec­turer Teresa Rosłoń-Esztényi
Senior Lec­turer Beata Szebesczyk
Lec­turer Ewa Skar­dowska, DA

Teach­ing fac­ulty — the pianist-tutor group

Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor Anna Duź
Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor Elż­bi­eta Neumann-Marianowska
Senior Lec­turer Teresa Cybul­ska
Senior Lec­turer Mar­iusz Dubrawski
Senior Lec­turer Ewa Guz-Seroka
Senior Lec­turer Alina Hoff­man
Senior Lec­turer Iwona Hrouda
Senior Lec­turer Elż­bi­eta Jarszewska-Kordykiewicz
Senior Lec­turer Grze­gorz Kiełbiński
Senior Lec­turer Agnieszka Kopacka
Senior Lec­turer Szy­mon Kowal­czyk
Senior Lec­turer Mał­gorzata Kuraś-Tkacz
Senior Lec­turer Teresa Maci­aszek
Senior Lec­turer Romana Orłowska
Senior Lec­turer Jolanta Pszczółkowska-Pawlik
Senior Lec­turer Lidia Strońska
Lec­turer Olga Anikiej (Depart­ment of Instru­men­tal and Edu­ca­tional Stud­ies in Białys­tok)
Lec­turer Ewa Białoko­zow­icz (Depart­ment of Instru­men­tal and Edu­ca­tional Stud­ies in Białys­tok)
Lec­turer Dag­mara Dudz­ińska
Lec­turer Tomasz Januchta (Depart­ment of Instru­men­tal and Edu­ca­tional Stud­ies in Białys­tok)
Lec­turer Adam Kon­dra­tow­icz (Depart­ment of Instru­men­tal and Edu­ca­tional Stud­ies in Białys­tok)
Lec­turer Ste­fan Kras­sowski (Depart­ment of Instru­men­tal and Edu­ca­tional Stud­ies in Białys­tok)
Lec­turer Joanna Opal­ińska
Lec­turer Ewa Pel­wecka
Lec­turer Hanna Sosińska-Kraski
Lec­turer Elż­bi­eta Uss (Depart­ment of Instru­men­tal and Edu­ca­tional Stud­ies in Białystok)