11th Intensive Music Course and Festival From Chopin to Górecki

18–31 July, 2010
Mas­ter classes for pianists, singers, string play­ers and com­po­si­tion
Pri­vate lessons — Work­shops — Con­certs — Excursions

Piano classes:

REGINA SMENDZIANKA Stud­ied the piano in the Krakow Col­lege of Music under the guid­ance of Pro­fes­sor Hen­ryk Sztompka and she grad­u­ated Summa Cum Laude. Even before she grad­u­ated, she had her debut on 28 March 1947 when she played Lud­wig van Beethoven’s piano con­certo in C-major. From that day on, she has been per­form­ing reg­u­larly nearly all over the world. In 1948 Regina Smendzianka shined as the ascend­ing star on the fir­ma­ment of young Pol­ish piano play­ers when she won the first prize at the National Chopin Com­pe­ti­tion in 1948. This prize was her pass to the Fourth Inter­na­tional Fry­deryk Chopin Com­pe­ti­tion in War­saw where she was one of the prize-winners. As far as the geog­ra­phy of Regina Smendzianka’s con­cert tours is con­cerned, one would have to list every coun­try in Europe and many coun­tries through­out the world. Regina Smendzianka does not only per­form, but also teaches. In 1966 she was invited to join the Fac­ulty of the War­saw Acad­emy. Another impor­tant field of Pro­fes­sor Regina Smendzianka’s activ­i­ties is her con­tri­bu­tion as a mem­ber of the juries of national and inter­na­tional piano com­pe­ti­tions. Pro­fes­sor Regina Smendzianka is an active mem­ber of many asso­ci­a­tions and soci­eties. Her book How to Play Chopin an Attempt of Answer was pub­lished in many coun­tries, recently in China. Regina Smendzianka is a great friend of young peo­ple for whom she estab­lished her “Regina Smendzianka Foun­da­tion” in 1987. In 1997, she was given the title of Hon­orary Pro­fes­sor of the Fry­deryk Chopin Acad­emy of Music in War­saw; in 2002 the Fry­deryk Chopin Acad­emy of Music was hon­oured to con­fer on Pro­fes­sor Regina Smendzianka the title of Doc­tor Hon­oris Causa.

JAN KADŁUBISKI After grad­u­at­ing from Fry­deryk Chopin Acad­emy of Music in his native War­saw Jan Kadłu­biski com­pleted his piano stud­ies in Vienna at the Akademie fur Musik und Darstel­lende Kunst (1961), in Italy and in Siena at the Accad­e­mia Musi­cale Chi­giana, where he was a pupil of Guido Agosti (1966–67-68). He began his career as a con­cert pianist by win­ning the Inter­na­tional Piano Com­pe­ti­tion (Inter­na­tional Youth Fes­ti­val) in War­saw in 1955. He has recorded a vast reper­toire with numer­ous radio and tele­vi­sion appear­ances. He has made con­cer­tos and recital appear­ances also in Aus­tria, in Italy in France, Switzer­land, Ger­many, for­mer Yugoslavia in Hun­gary, The Czech Repub­lic, Great Britain, the United States, China and Thai­land. Jan Kadłu­biski was invited to lec­ture and give mas­ter classes in Switzer­land , the United States, 2002), in Great Britain and China. Mem­ber of the jury of National and Inter­na­tional Com­pe­ti­tions. Pro­fes­sor of piano per­for­mance at the Fry­deryk Chopin Uni­ver­sity of Music in Warsaw.

ANDRZEJ DUTKIEWICZ Grad­u­ate of the Fry­deryk Chopin Acad­emy of Music in piano and com­po­si­tion. He also received the DMA degree from The East­man School of Music and a Ful­bright Schol­ar­ship in 1976. His teach­ers at East­man, among oth­ers, were Eugene List and Samuel Adler. Dutkiewicz has gained crit­i­cal acclaim for his per­for­mance of stan­dard piano reper­toire, espe­cially for his inter­pre­ta­tion of Chopin’s and Szymanowski’s music. A prizewin­ner in the Inter­na­tional Com­pe­ti­tion for Per­for­mance of Con­tem­po­rary Music in Rot­ter­dam (1970), he con­tin­ues to gain inter­na­tional atten­tion for his per­for­mance of con­tem­po­rary works and has recorded for Pol­ish Radio and TV, Muza record­ings, as well as for Ger­man Sonoton, Pro-Nova and Philips and Amer­i­can Gas­paro Records. The Min­istry of Cul­ture has hon­ored him a spe­cial diploma for pro­mot­ing con­tem­po­rary Pol­ish music abroad. Widely known for his appear­ances at col­lege sym­posia and mas­ter classes which empha­size the inter­pre­ta­tion of the twen­ti­eth cen­tury music, Prof. Dutkiewicz has lec­tured and given recitals in Europe and in over fifty Amer­i­can uni­ver­si­ties and sum­mer fes­ti­vals, includ­ing the Cleve­land Orches­tra, Blos­som Fes­ti­val, the Amer­i­can Franz Liszt Soci­ety Fes­ti­val and the National Music Camp at Inter­lochen, Michi­gan. He is also a very well known com­poser. His music is pub­lished by Sonoton Pro Nova, Authors Agency, Pol­ish Music Pub­lish­ers (PWM), Neil Kijos in the USA and Eumang Chunchu, S. Korea. Cur­rently he is pro­fes­sor of Depart­ment of Piano, Harp­si­chord and Organs at the Fry­deryk Chopin Uni­ver­sity of Music in War­saw, Head of Con­tem­po­rary Music Stud­ies and Co-Director of the Keimyung-Chopin Acad­emy of Music in Daegu, S. Korea.

JERZY STERCZYŃSKI Was born into a fam­ily with long musi­cal tra­di­tions. His grand­fa­ther was an organ­ist and his mother a musi­col­o­gist. He took his first piano lessons at the age of six. His teach­ers were Zdzisław Tanewski, Wiesław Szlachta and Andrzej Jasiński. Under the latter’s guid­ance he grad­u­ated with hon­ours from the Karol Szy­manowski Music Acad­emy in Katow­ice. He is a prizewin­ner of the Inter­na­tional Piano Com­pe­ti­tion in Saragozza. For the past twenty five years Ster­czyński has been appear­ing in con­certs as a soloist and a cham­ber music player. He per­formed in Por­tu­gal, Spain, France, Aus­tria, Kuwait, Korea and other coun­tries. He has par­tic­i­pated in inter­na­tional music fes­ti­vals includ­ing Duszniki, Lock­en­hous and La Chaisse-Dieu. For the Selene label the pianist has recorded Chopin’s works (all Waltzes, all Noc­turnes, all Polon­aises, Con­certo in F minor, Sonata in B flat minor, vari­a­tions and minia­tures), also works of Tchaikovsky, Bach-Busoni, Brahms-Busoni, Liszt, Reger and Szy­manowski. Pro­fes­sor of piano at the Fry­deryk Chopin Uni­ver­sity of Music in War­saw. Since 2005 he has been the Dean of Piano, Harp­si­chord and Organ Department.

NAN-HEE KIM was born in Daegu, Korea where her musi­cal train­ing started at the age of five. She won many “Young Artist” con­tests held in Korea dur­ing her youth. While attend­ing Seoul National Uni­ver­sity, she stud­ied with pro­fes­sor Sun-Yul Kim, grad­u­at­ing with magna cum laude. For her Mas­ters and Doc­tor of Musi­cal Arts degrees, she stud­ied with pro­fes­sor William Brown­ing at the Amer­i­can Con­ser­va­tory of Music in Chicago from the year of 1973 till 1979. In those years in Chicago, she appeared as a soloist for the Com­mence­ment con­cert of ACM at the Orches­tra Hall and gave many recitals in Mid-West area of the U.S.A. She was invited to join the music fac­ulty at Keimyung Uni­ver­sity in 1979. Since then, she has been teach­ing at the uni­ver­sity as a full pro­fes­sor. Her per­for­mances include recitals in Chicago, San­ti­ago (Chile), and War­saw as well as in many cities of home­land. She also appeared as a soloist for many orches­tras such as Daegu sym­phony orches­tra and St. Peters­burg Octet. She also gave numer­ous duo-concerts in many cities around the world such at Oxford, Chicago, St. Pert­ers­burg, Kamakura, Mum­bai, Bris­bane and Juvaskyla. Her piano recitals held in Poland, U.S.A. and sev­eral cities in Korea attracted music crit­ics’ atten­tion with their excel­lent reviews. She was the chair­woman for the First, the Sec­ond & third Inter­na­tional Piano Com­pe­ti­tion in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

JORDI CAMELL (1959) has per­formed through­out Spain, Europe and Amer­ica. An all-round musi­cian of great expe­ri­ence, he stud­ied with Carme Flexas in Tar­rag­ona, with Miquel Farré in Barcelona and with Mario Cur­cio in Lon­don. Win­ner of var­i­ous com­pe­ti­tions, in 1984 he received his Diplôme Supérieur d’Exécution in the cat­e­gory of “pre­mier nommé” at the École Nor­male de Musique de Paris. He has worked with var­i­ous artists and his search for new reper­to­ries has led him to play with con­tem­po­rary music groups such as Barcelona 216, Solis­tas de Iber­cam­era and the Orques­tra de Cam­bra Teatre Lli­ure, per­form­ing through­out Europe. In 1992, his debut con­cert in the Iber­cam­era series of Barcelona was unan­i­mously praised by the press. He has per­formed as soloist with the OBC de Barcelona, the Orques­tra Sim­fònica del Val­lés, the Fil­har­mo­nia de Cam­bra de Barcelona, the Orques­tra Sim­fònica Empordà-Llenguadoc-Rosselló and the Orquesta de la Ciu­dad de Granada, among oth­ers, per­form­ing the con­cer­tos of Clara Schu­mann, Mozart, Shostakovich, Poulenc, Gersh­win, Albéniz, Brahms, Grieg, etc. He has played under the direc­tion of con­duc­tors such as Bern­hard Güeller, Sal­vador Bro­tons, Ernest Martínez-Izquierdo and Josep Pons. A pianist open to all styles, in 2002 he took part in the first per­for­mances, in Berlin’s Hebbel The­atre and Barcelona’s Teatre Lli­ure, of the pro­duc­tion Pre­ludis by the choreographer/dancer Cesc Gelabert, later accom­pa­ny­ing a solo of his through­out Spain, Europe and the United States. Since 2006 he has been on tour in Spain (more than 50 per­for­mances have been given so far) with the actress Vicky Peña in a Kurt Weill recital. Recently he has pre­sented the first per­for­mance of his own work: X-Ray, Radi­ografia d’un paisatge inte­rior (X-Ray of an Inte­rior Land­scape), which incor­po­rates a video pro­jec­tion. Among his record­ings should be men­tioned the CDs of piano music by Ger­hard together with some of Grana­dos’ Goyescas, the Clar­inet Sonatas by Bern­stein, Bro­tons and Poulenc with Josep Fuster, a piano recital which includes works by Viñes, Poulenc and Mousorgsky’s Pic­tures at an Exhi­bi­tion, and the Binomis CD (2008) with the Cobla Sant Jordi Ciu­tat de Barcelona and a num­ber of other dis­tin­guished pianists. Beside his con­cer­tiz­ing activ­i­ties, Jordi Camell is intensely involved with teach­ing. He is cur­rently Pro­fes­sor of Piano and Direc­tor of the Depart­ment of Clas­si­cal and Con­tem­po­rary Music at the Escola Supe­rior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC).

Vocal classes:

EWA IŻYKOWSKA (soprano, mezzo-soprano) belongs to the group of the most out­stand­ing Pol­ish singers. She grad­u­ated from Fry­deryk Chopin Acad­emy of Music in War­saw where she stud­ied singing under Prof. Kaz­imiera Goławska. She con­tin­ued her stud­ies at the Acad­e­mia Musi­cale Chi­giana in Siena under Geor­gio Favaretto and Ettore Capogagliani, Accad­e­mia di Santa Cecilia in Rome and Teatro alla Scala in Milan under Giuli­etta Simion­ato and Eduardo Mueller. She is also summa cum laude grad­u­ate of Acad­emy of Drama in War­saw, Poland. Ewa Iżykowska won sev­eral prizes at the inter­na­tional vocal com­pe­ti­tions, such as Belvedere Com­pe­ti­tion in Vienna, Aus­tria, Mozart Com­pe­ti­tion in Alessan­dria, Italy, Szy­manowski Com­pe­ti­tion in War­saw, Poland. Ewa Iżykowska started her pro­fes­sional career at the Opera House in Poz­nań, Poland in 1981 where she cre­ated Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte, Vio­letta in La Travi­ata, Micaela in Car­men, Liu in Turan­dot and many oth­ers. Ewa Iżykowska is a dis­tin­guished ora­to­rio / can­tata singer. Her reper­toire includes the best known works start­ing from Baroque through Roman­tic ora­to­rios to con­tem­po­rary works like Mahler’s Sym­phony No. 7 or Górecki’s Sym­phony No. 3 and the whole Penderecki’s ora­to­rio reper­toire. Dur­ing her career she per­formed in the world’s most pres­ti­gious opera the­atres and con­cert halls like La Scala, Musikverein, Carnegie Hall, and she was tour­ing around Europe, Amer­i­cas, Philip­pines and Rus­sia. She has recorded with Pol­ish Radio & TV and Aus­tria TV ORF. In 2000, she started her world-wide tour with two solo recitals: From Baroque to Jazz and Songs of Chopin and Paderewski. Since 2000 she began to share her expe­ri­ence with young stu­dents at Uni­ver­sity in Olsten, Poland, Pol­ish Acad­emy of Sci­ences in War­saw, and she become a vice Direc­tor of Keimyung F. Chopin Acad­emy of Music in South Korea. Since 2004, she is asked to par­tic­i­pate in many inter­na­tional opera work­shops, sem­i­nars, courses and fes­ti­vals, like, Schlern Music Fes­ti­val in Italy, Mas­ter Class at the Texas Chris­t­ian Uni­ver­sity, Mas­ter Class at the Catholic Uni­ver­sity in Daegu, S. Korea, From Chopin to Górecki Fes­ti­val at the Fry­deryk Chopin Uni­ver­sity of Music in War­saw. She holds PHD degree and is pro­fes­sor at the Fry­deryk Chopin Uni­ver­sity of Music in War­saw, Poland.

Com­po­si­tion classes:

MARIAN BORKOWSKI Com­poser, musi­col­o­gist, pianist, teacher, ani­ma­teur and orga­nizer of musi­cal life, was born in 1934 in Pabi­an­ice (Poland). He stud­ied com­po­si­tion with Kaz­imierz Siko­rski and piano with Jan Ekier and Natalia Hornowska at the Acad­emy of Music in War­saw (1959–1965; Mas­ter of Arts in 1965). At the same time he stud­ied musi­col­ogy at War­saw Uni­ver­sity under Józef M. Chomiński (Mas­ter of Musi­col­ogy in 1966). In the years 1966–1968, thanks to a French Gov­ern­ment grant, he con­tin­ued post­grad­u­ate stud­ies in com­po­si­tion with Nadia Boulanger and Olivier Mes­si­aen at the Paris Con­ser­va­tory and Amer­i­can Con­ser­va­tory in Fontainebleau and with Ian­nis Xenakis at the Ecole Pra­tique des Hautes Etudes, and in musi­col­ogy under Jacques Chail­ley and Barry S. Brook at the Paris Uni­ver­sity (Sor­bonne). Simul­ta­ne­ously, he stud­ied phi­los­o­phy with Jean Hyp­po­lite and Jules Vuillemin at the Sor­bonne and the Col­lège de France. He par­tic­i­pated in the Inter­na­tional Courses of New Music in Darm­stadt (1972, 1974) and in the courses given by György Ligeti, Ian­nis Xenakis, Karl­heinz Stock­hausen and Franco Dona­toni at the Accad­e­mia Musi­cale Chi­giana in Siena (1973, 1975; Diploma di Mer­ito). He has been on the fac­ulty of the Chopin Acad­emy of Music in War­saw since 1968, as lec­turer (1968–1971), assis­tant pro­fes­sor (1971–1976), asso­ciate pro­fes­sor (1976–1989), full pro­fes­sor (since 1989); deputy dean of the Fac­ulty of Com­po­si­tion, Con­duct­ing and Music The­ory (1975–1978), vice-president of the Acad­emy (1978–1981, 1987–1990), head of the Chair of Music The­ory (1993–1999), dean of the Fac­ulty of Com­po­si­tion, Con­duct­ing and Music The­ory (1996–1999), orga­nizer and direc­tor of the Post­grad­u­ate Stud­ies in Music The­ory (1998–2008), head of the Chair of Com­po­si­tion (1999–2004), orga­nizer and direc­tor of the Post­grad­u­ate Stud­ies in Com­po­si­tion (2000–2008).  He has edu­cated sev­eral dozen Pol­ish com­posers and has also offered instruc­tion to many for­eign under­grad­u­ate, post­grad­u­ate and doc­toral stu­dents from Bel­gium, Canada, Chile, Italy, Paraguay, South Korea, Great Britain and the United States. His stu­dents and grad­u­ates have won over 250 awards and hon­ourable men­tions at national and inter­na­tional com­posers’ competitions.

Instru­men­tal classes:

SŁAWOMIR TOMASIK stud­ied the vio­lin at the Fry­deryk Chopin Acad­emy of Music in War­saw in Jan Tawroczewicz’s and Krzysztof Jakowicz’s vio­lin classes. He grad­u­ated with dis­tinc­tion in 1983. He then went on to study cham­ber music at Musikhochschule, Köln (Ger­many) in the Amadeus Quar­tet class. He con­tin­ued his stud­ies with the renowned Pol­ish vio­lin­ist and teacher Tadeusz Wroński and also attended mas­ter classes taught by Andre Gertlèr at the Brus­sels Con­ser­va­tory. He has won sev­eral awards and dis­tinc­tions at national and inter­na­tional com­pe­ti­tions (Lublin, Katow­ice, Wrocław, Han­nover). Sła­womir Tomasik has per­formed as a soloist and in cham­ber ensem­bles in Poland, Aus­tria, Fin­land, France, Japan, South Korea, Nor­way, Switzer­land, Rus­sia and Ukraine. He has played with many sym­phony orches­tras and co-operated with many dis­tin­guished cham­ber pianists. He has recorded for Leas­trem (Lon­don), Ton­star, Pol­ish Radio, Dux, Jap­oland (Japan), Pol­skie Nagra­nia — Muza. He has also made many library record­ings for Pol­ish Radio and Tele­vi­sion and also French, South Korean and Ger­man tele­vi­sions. He was first con­cert­mas­ter of Taegu Sym­phony Orches­tra, South Korea in 1992–94. He has also pub­lished method­olog­i­cal and poetry books.

ANDRZEJ ZIELIŃSKI was born in Wągrowiec on 26 Novem­ber 1937. He grad­u­ated from the State Col­lege of Music (now the Acad­emy of Music) in Kraków in 1962 where he stud­ied the cello under Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor Zofia Adamska. He con­tin­ued as a post-graduate stu­dent under M. Ros­tropovich at the P. Tchaikovsky Con­ser­va­tory in Moscow in 1966–1967. He obtained his 2nd degree in music in 1984 and became full pro­fes­sor in 1992. He was Vice-dean of the Białys­tok Branch of the F. Chopin Acad­emy of Music (1986–1990); Prorec­tor for Stu­dents’ Affairs and Białys­tok Branch Affairs at the Fry­deryk Chopin Acad­emy of Music in 1991–1996; Sec­re­tary of State (2000–2001) and Min­is­ter of Cul­ture and National Her­itage (2001). Artis­tic activ­i­ties: soloist (cello); sym­phony and cham­ber orches­tra con­cert­mas­ter and soloist in Kraków (1962), Poz­nań (1963–1966), War­saw (1967–1991), Stock­holm (1969–1970), and Teheran (1976–1977); record com­pany, radio and tele­vi­sion record­ings. He gave the first per­for­mance of D. B. Kabalewski’s cello con­certo and the recently recov­ered con­certo by I. J. Pleyel (which he also elab­o­rated and edited for pub­lish­ing in PWM in 1994). He has attended many fes­ti­vals includ­ing the Mas­ters of the Pol­ish Vio­lin and Stars Pro­mote (with his for­mer stu­dents). Teach­ing activ­i­ties: State Col­lege of Music (now the Acad­emy of Music) in Poz­nań (1964–1977); Fry­deryk Chopin Uni­ver­sity of Music in War­saw (since 1978; assis­tant pro­fes­sor 1984–1991, asso­ciate pro­fes­sor 1991–1996, full pro­fes­sor since 1996); he teaches the cello at the Depart­ment of Instru­men­tal Stud­ies of the Fry­deryk Chopin Uni­ver­sity of Music in War­saw and the Białys­tok; he also teaches the cello at sec­ondary music schools in War­saw and Białys­tok. He has edu­cated more than 100 cel­lists, many of whom have won both, national and inter­na­tional com­pe­ti­tions, who are now orches­tra lead­ers, con­cert­mas­ters and renowned soloists and teach­ers at home and abroad. He was vice-president then pres­i­dent of the Cen­tral Qual­i­fy­ing Com­mis­sion for Pro­fes­sional Spe­cial­i­sa­tion Degrees at the Cen­tre for Artis­tic Edu­ca­tion at the Min­istry of Cul­ture and Art (1990–1999). As of 2003 he has been an expert on qual­i­fy­ing com­mis­sions or exam­i­na­tion boards for teachers.