Professor Andrzej Dutkiewicz, PhD

Andrzej Dutkiewicz is a grad­u­ate of the War­saw Con­ser­va­tory in piano and com­po­si­tion. He also received the DMA degree from The East­man School of Music as a Ful­bright Scholar in 1976. His teach­ers at East­man includes 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 prize win­ner 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. He has been hon­ored by the Min­istry of Cul­ture for pro­mot­ing con­tem­po­rary Pol­ish music abroad.

Widely known for his appear­ances at col­lege sym­posia and mas­ter classes which empha­size the inter­pre­ta­tion of twen­ti­eth cen­tury music Dr Dutkiewicz has given lec­tures and recitals 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. His com­po­si­tions are pub­lished by Sonoton Pro Nova, Authors Agency, Pol­ish Music Pub­lish­ers (PWM), and Neil Kjos in the USA, Eumang Churchu, South Korea.

From 1999 until 2005 Pro­fes­sor Andrzej Dutkiewicz served as Dean of the Depart­ment of Piano, Harp­si­chord and Organ at Fry­deryk Chopin Acad­emy of Music in War­saw. Now he is Head of the Unit of Con­tem­po­rary Music.

More infor­ma­tion: www.dutkiewicz.republika.pl