Professor Jerzy Łukasiewicz

He stud­ied at the State Higher Col­lege of Music in 1969–1974 and grad­u­ated with hon­ours in Pro­fes­sor W. L. Puchnowski’s, He then went on to con­tinue his post-graduate doc­toral stud­ies which he com­pleted in 1977. He received the title of Pro­fes­sor of Music Arts from the Pol­ish Pres­i­dent in 2001.

Win­ner of national and inter­na­tional competitions:

• Vichy (France — 1973) — bronze medal
• Helsinki (Fin­land — 1975) — bronze medal
• Białys­tok (Poland — 1971 and 1975) — 2^nd prize

In 1979 Jerzy Łukasiewicz estab­lished the War­saw Accor­dion Duo (with W. Strombek) with which he has given over 600 con­certs in Poland and abroad as well as 850 school con­certs. He has also played with sym­phony orches­tras and co-operates on a per­ma­nent basis with the Cam­er­ata Vis­tula orches­tra. He has made numer­ous radio, tele­vi­sion and record record­ings of con­tem­po­rary music as well as pop­u­lar and film music. He has taken part in the most pres­ti­gious musi­cal events includ­ing War­saw Autumn, Styr­ian Autumn — Musikpro­tokoll (Graz, Aus­tria), Poz­nań Musi­cal Spring, Sile­sian Com­posers’ Plat­form, Baranów Music Encoun­ters, Musica Mod­erna (Łódź), the Fes­ti­val of Con­tem­po­rary Music in Lis­bon (Por­tu­gal), the Inter­na­tional “Jeunesses Musi­cales” Fes­ti­val, Pol­ish Cul­ture Days in Hun­gary and Aus­tria. He takes advan­tage of state-of-the art tech­nol­ogy dur­ing his per­for­mances, e.g., elec­tronic sound cor­rec­tors, com­put­ers, syn­the­sis­ers etc., in order to enrich the sound of the accordion.

His stu­dents have won many com­pe­ti­tions in Poland and abroad, play­ing both solo and cham­ber music, e.g.:

• the P. Sójka (accor­dion) and M. Sójka (clar­inet) duet — 1^st prize at the Inter­na­tional Accor­dion Com­pe­ti­tion in Castelfi­daro (Italy — 2001),
• the W. Wid­larz (accor­dion) and T. Kawa (clar­inet) duet — 1^st prize at the Pol­ish National Accor­dion Cham­ber Ensem­ble Com­pe­ti­tion (Chełm, 1998),
• the G. Toporowski and R. Toporowski accor­dion duet — 1^st prize at the Pol­ish National Accor­dion Cham­ber Ensem­ble Com­pe­ti­tion (Chełm, 2004),
• the H. Giziewski and P. Sulej accor­dion duet — win­ners of the “Ibla World Com­pe­ti­tion” (Sicily, 2005),
• and many other prizes at com­pe­ti­tions and fes­ti­vals, also dur­ing his ear­lier co-operation with Pro­fes­sor W. L. Puch­nowski as his assistant.

Jerzy Łukasiewicz also does sci­en­tific research. He con­ducted research on tun­ing tol­er­ance for the music indus­try at the Chair of Acoustics, Fry­deryk Chopin Acad­emy of Music. This work led to the devel­op­ment of new meth­ods of tun­ing accor­dions using mod­ern elec­tronic devices. The results of this research have been pub­lished (J. Łukasiewicz, Accor­dion Tun­ing. Con­tem­po­rary Meth­ods and Organ­i­sa­tion).

Jerzy Łukasiewicz has pre­pared many solo arrange­ments and scores for var­i­ous groups of instru­ments. This work encour­aged him to deepen his knowl­edge in the field of score and sci­en­tific pub­li­ca­tion edit­ing by means of com­puter tech­nol­ogy. This led to the pub­li­ca­tion of sev­eral scores and sci­en­tific works in co-operation with the UMFC Press as well as a series ini­ti­ated by Pro­fes­sor S. Moryto and edited by J. Węcowski — “Musi­cal First Edi­tions of Pol­ish Composers”.

Pro­fes­sor Jerzy Łukasiewicz shares his research expe­ri­ence in his char­ter lec­tures called Com­puter Tech­nol­ogy for Music where stu­dents learn about all pos­si­ble appli­ca­tions of com­put­ers and other elec­tronic devices in music.