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Krzysztof Meyer
Composer, pianist and music theorist, he studied composition and music theory with Stanisław Wiechowicz, graduating with honours from Krzysztof Penderecki’s composition class and Aleksander Frączkiewicz’s theory class at the State Higher School of Music (now the K. Penderecki Academy of Music) in Kraków. He continued his education with Nadia Boulanger in Paris and Fontainebleau.
The artist’s numerous accolades include prizes at the Grzegorz Fitelberg Competition for Composers, the International Rostrum of Composers in Paris, from the Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco (Grand Prix de Composition musicale), and the Karol Szymanowski Competition in Warsaw. He was history’s youngest composer to make his debut at the Warsaw Autumn festival.
Meyer’s output includes orchestral, chamber and solo pieces, vocal works with and without instruments, as well as theatre and film music. His compositions have been presented at New York’s Carnegie Hall, Berlin Philharmonie, and the Wiener Musikverein, among others. In his early works, Meyer drew on the sonoristic, bruitist, and aleatory techniques of the then avant-garde. In later years, he turned towards formal order, balance between various components of the work, and a traditional concept of beauty in sound. He constructs the narrative of his compositions out of these elements. Meyer is also the author of numerous papers and books on music, including Poland’s first monograph of the life and work of Dmitri Shostakovich.
Meyer has taught at his alma mater (where he was also deputy rector and Chair of Music Theory), the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Cologne, and at the Chair of Musicology of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. He was a long-time member of the Managing Board and President of the Polish Composers’ Union, member of the PAU Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Akademie der Künste Mannheim, as well as an honorary professor of Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy.
The artist’s accolades include the Golden Cross of Merit, the Knight’s and Officer’s Crosses of the Order of Polonia Restituta, as well as the ‘Gloria Artis’ Gold Medal for Merit to Culture.
The artist’s numerous accolades include prizes at the Grzegorz Fitelberg Competition for Composers, the International Rostrum of Composers in Paris, from the Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco (Grand Prix de Composition musicale), and the Karol Szymanowski Competition in Warsaw. He was history’s youngest composer to make his debut at the Warsaw Autumn festival.
Meyer’s output includes orchestral, chamber and solo pieces, vocal works with and without instruments, as well as theatre and film music. His compositions have been presented at New York’s Carnegie Hall, Berlin Philharmonie, and the Wiener Musikverein, among others. In his early works, Meyer drew on the sonoristic, bruitist, and aleatory techniques of the then avant-garde. In later years, he turned towards formal order, balance between various components of the work, and a traditional concept of beauty in sound. He constructs the narrative of his compositions out of these elements. Meyer is also the author of numerous papers and books on music, including Poland’s first monograph of the life and work of Dmitri Shostakovich.
Meyer has taught at his alma mater (where he was also deputy rector and Chair of Music Theory), the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Cologne, and at the Chair of Musicology of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. He was a long-time member of the Managing Board and President of the Polish Composers’ Union, member of the PAU Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Akademie der Künste Mannheim, as well as an honorary professor of Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy.
The artist’s accolades include the Golden Cross of Merit, the Knight’s and Officer’s Crosses of the Order of Polonia Restituta, as well as the ‘Gloria Artis’ Gold Medal for Merit to Culture.
