Professor Krystyna Makowska-Ławrynowicz

Krystyna Makowska-Ławrynowicz began to learn the piano with Pro­fes­sor Hanna Lacher­towa at the age of six. In 1971, she grad­u­ated with hon­ours from the Szy­manowski High School of Music in War­saw (Pro­fes­sor Lachert’s class). She stud­ied the piano with Pro­fes­sor Maria Wiłkomirska at the Fry­deryk Chopin Acad­emy of Music and grad­u­ated with hon­ours in 1971. In the years 1971–1973 she was awarded artis­tic fel­low­ships from the Pol­ish and Aus­trian gov­ern­ments. She also par­tic­i­pated in inter­na­tional piano and cham­ber mas­ter courses in Switzer­land, Ger­many, and Austria.

Pro­fes­sor Makowska-Ławrynowicz has received awards from sev­eral inter­na­tional piano com­pe­ti­tions such as the Robert Schu­mann Com­pe­ti­tion in Zwickau (1969), Fest­wochen in Vienna (1972), Lud­wig van Beethoven Com­pe­ti­tion in Vienna (1973) and Bay­erischer Rund­funk in Munich (1974). She has per­formed as a soloist and as a mem­ber of cham­ber ensem­bles in Aus­tria, Bul­garia, Cuba, Czech Repub­lic, Eng­land, Fin­land, France, Ger­many, Italy, The Nether­lands, Rus­sia, Swe­den, Switzer­land, Turkey, Yugoslavia, and in the USA (Carnegie Hall). She has also par­tic­i­pated in numer­ous fes­ti­vals, e.g., the George Sand Fes­ti­val in France, and the Steirischer Herbst in Austria.

Pro­fes­sor Krystyna Makowska-Ławrynowicz has made numer­ous record­ings as a soloist and cham­ber musi­cian for Pol­ish and for­eign com­pa­nies, e.g., Bay­erischer Rund­funk und Fernse­hen, Öster­re­ichis­che Run­funk, Radio Cuba, Pol­ish Radio and Tele­vi­sion. She has recorded sev­eral CDs, giv­ing spe­cial atten­tion to works by Pol­ish com­posers: F. Chopin, H. Moniuszko, K. Lipiski, L. Róży­cki, J. Zaręb­ski, A. Zarzy­cki H. Wieni­awski, J. Wieni­awski, K. Szy­manowski, and H. Swolkień.

Since 1973 she has been employed at the Fry­deryk Chopin Acad­emy of Music in War­saw, first at Pro­fes­sor Maria Wiłkomirska’s piano class and later at the Chair of Piano Cham­ber Music under pro­fes­sor Jerzy March­wiński. She was nom­i­nated a lec­turer in 1979 and assis­tant pro­fes­sor in 1990, when she obtained her sec­ond level degree in music. She has been an asso­ciate pro­fes­sor since Feb­ru­ary 1992. She has reviewed and super­vised many qual­i­fi­ca­tion pro­ce­dures for first and sec­ond degrees in music at Acad­e­mies of Music in Łódź, Poz­nań and War­saw, In period 1999–2005 she was a prorec­tor for Inter­na­tional Affairs of the AMFC in Warsaw.

For many years, Pro­fes­sor Krystyna Makowska-Ławrynowicz has been a co-organiser of the Inter­na­tional Musi­cal Courses in Łańcut and has given lec­tures and con­certs dur­ing the courses. She has also acted as a juror at the Pol­ish Cham­ber Music Com­pe­ti­tions in Stalowa Wola, Kosza­lin, and Byd­goszcz sev­eral times.

In 1995 she was appointed a Con­sul­tant to the Pol­ish Artis­tic Edu­ca­tion Sys­tem and still holds this function.