Professor Roman Siwek

has taught the tuba and the trom­bone at the Fry­deryk Chopin Uni­ver­sity of Music in War­saw for 25 years.

He pre­vi­ously taught at music col­leges in Kraków and Katow­ice. He also taught at a sec­ondary music school in Katow­ice for 10 years. Sev­eral of Roman Siwek’s for­mer stu­dents are now aca­d­e­mic teach­ers and hold exposed posi­tions in the best Pol­ish orches­tras. Some have also won com­pe­ti­tions at home and abroad.

Roman Siwek still per­forms as a solo trom­bon­ist in the National Phil­har­monic Orches­tra and he used to play with the Great Sym­phony Orches­tra of the Pol­ish Radio and Television.

Thanks to prizes won in Prague (II) and Geneva (I) he has played in many Pol­ish phil­har­mon­ics at sym­phony con­certs, recitals and cham­ber con­certs, mainly with a brass quin­tet estab­lished by musi­cians from the National Philharmonic.

Roman Siwek and the Great Sym­phony Orches­tra of the Pol­ish Radio and Tele­vi­sion have recorded a num­ber of solo con­certs for the Pol­ish Radio includ­ing con­certs by K. Serocki, M. Spisak, J. F. Händel, H. Tomasi, J. G. Albrechts­berger, G. Ch. Vagen­seil and H. Malecki, as well as many pieces with the piano or cham­ber orches­tra works.

Pro­fes­sor Siwek was head of the Chair of Cham­ber Music at the Fry­deryk Chopin Acad­emy of Music for two terms of office and he was head of the Chair of Wind Instru­ments in 1999–2005. He organ­ised the Pol­ish National Trom­bone Fes­ti­val (three times) and the Pol­ish National Wind Instru­ment Ensem­ble Com­pe­ti­tion (also three times). Both these events are held at the Fry­deryk Chopin Acad­emy of Music. He has fre­quently judged national and inter­na­tional wind instru­ment com­pe­ti­tions. For many years he has been a pro­gram expert at the Cen­tre for Artis­tic Education.