Authors
World-famous pianist, composer and educator, but also a politician and champion of Poland’s independence. He learned at Warsaw’s Music Institute (1873–1878), where he later taught the piano. In 1882 and again in 1884 he studied twice for half a year in Berlin. His piano studies with Theodor Leschetizky in Vienna were made possible by Helena Modrzejewska’s support. He was a lecturer in harmony and counterpoint at Strasbourg Conservatory.
One of the most significant twentieth-century Polish composers, Palester is often seen as a “successor to Karol Szymanowski.” He studied piano at the Krakow Institute of Music and at the conservatory in Lwów (now L’viv), as well as art history as the University of Warsaw and composition and music theory at Warsaw Conservatory.
Jazz saxophonist and composer, a leading figure in the Polish and European jazz scene; 15-time ‘Jazz Forum’ magazine’s Best Soprano Saxophonist.
Full name: Radosław Rak, veterinary surgeon and writer, author of fantasy books. He graduated in veterinary medicine from the University of Life Sciences in Lublin and works in this profession. In his writings, combines real history, customs, and social life with fairy-tale elements, frequently drawing on myths and legend. As a novelist, Rak made his debut with the 2014, the book that brought him the greatest popularity is 'The Tale of the Serpent’s Heart, or a Second Word about Jakób Szela' (2019), for which he received the 2020 Nike Literary Award among other.
A composer of the young Poland movement, born on 18th September 1883 in Warsaw; he died on 1st January 1953 in Katowice. He received his first music lessons from his father, who was a pianist and a professor at Warsaw Conservatory. Having studied piano with Aleksander Michałowski and composition with Zygmunt Noskowski in Warsaw, Różycki made a successful debut as a composer with the symphonic scherzo Stańczyk (1903), which opened the way to studies with Engelbert Humperdinck at Berlin’s Königliche Akademie der Künste. It was in Berlin that he founded (together with Karol Szymanowski, Apolinary Szeluto, and Grzegorz Fitelberg) the Young Polish Composers’ Publishing Company (1905).
An artist combining acoustic tradition with electronic modernity; composer of, among others, the opera Madame Curie. Born on 20th October 1943 in Lwów (now Lviv), she graduated in sound engineering from the class of Antoni Karużas at the State Higher School of Music in Warsaw
A philologist, author of prose and poetry, translator, professor of the human sciences. His special fields are literary theory as well as the history of British and American literatures. An eminent intellectual, ranking among the elite of Polish humanist authors, he has published texts in such periodicals as ‘Brulion’, ‘Odra’, ‘Res Publica Nowa’, and ‘Gazeta Wyborcza’, as well as regularly contributing to ‘Tygodnik Powszechny’.
Composer, lawyer, and educator, author of the concept of musical ‘aftersounds’. He studied law at the University of Łódź, music theory with Marta Szoka and composition with Zygmunt Krauze at the G. and K. Bacewicz Academy of Music in Łódź. He then took up postgraduate studies with Ivan Fedele at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome (2007–2010), and at the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique in Paris (2011–2014).
