Krystyna Makowska-Ławrynowicz

Krystyna Makowska-Ławrynowicz (born December 16, 1947 ) is a Polish pianist and music teacher .

Makowska began her piano training with Hanna Lachertowa , continued it at the Warsaw Music School with Piotr Lachert and studied at the Higher State Music School in Warsaw with Maria Wiłkomirska . After graduating, she continued her studies from 1971 to 1973 as a scholarship holder of the Austrian government with Dieter Weber at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna . She also attended master classes for piano and chamber music in Switzerland, Germany and Austria.

She has won prizes at international piano competitions and festivals, including the Robert Schumann Competition in Zwickau (1969), the Wiener Festwochen (1973) and the Bavarian Radio Piano Competition in Munich (1974). She has performed as a concert pianist and chamber musician in Germany, Austria, France, Finland, Switzerland, Russia, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, England, Turkey, Italy, the USA (including Carnegie Hall ) and Cuba and made numerous radio, television and CD recordings. The focus of her interest are Polish composers such as Fryderyk Chopin , Stanisław Moniuszko , Karol Lipiński , Ludomir Różycki , Juliusz Zarębski , Aleksander Zarzycki , Henryk Wieniawski , Józef Wieniawski , Karol Szymanowski and Henryk Swolkień .

Since 1973 Makowska has been teaching at the Higher State Music School (since 1979 Warsaw Music Academy , since 2008 Fryderyk Chopin University for Music ), first as assistant to Maria Wiłkomirska, then in Jerzy Marchwiński's department for piano chamber music , and finally as assistant professor (from 1979), associate Professor (from 1990), associate professor (from 1992) and full professor (since 2010). She worked as an examiner at the final exams of the music academies in Łódź, Poznan and Warsaw and has been a juror at chamber music competitions in Stalowa Wola, Koszalin and Bydgoszcz several times. Since 1995 she has been an artistic educational advisor at the Polish Ministry of Culture and Art.

Since 1993 she worked with her future husband Mirosław Ławrynowicz in organizing the music courses in Łańcut. After his death in 2005, she became the scientific and artistic director of these courses. She is also co-organizer of the string academy for children in Goch near Düsseldorf and president of the jury of the international Mirosław Ławrynowicz meeting for young violinists in Płock. For her services she was u. a. Awarded the Golden Cross of Merit of the Republic of Poland , the Badge for Services to Polish Culture, a Diploma from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage and the Silver Gloria Artis Medal for Cultural Services . Her daughter Joanna Ławrynowicz also embarked on a career as a pianist.

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• prof. dr got Krystyna Makowska-Ławrynowicz. Fryderyk Chopin University of Music
• Krystyna Makowska-Ławrynowicz at Festival Artelier, 2011