Tadeusz Strugała

Tadeusz Strugała (2007)

Tadeusz Strugała (born February 10, 1935 in Katowice ) is a Polish oboist, conductor and music teacher.

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Strugała studied music theory, composition and conducting with Adam Kopyciński at the State Music Academy in Wroclaw and continued his training in Weimar with Arvid Janson and in Venice with Franco Ferrari . From 1954 to 1957 he was oboist in the Wroclaw Symphony Orchestra, and from 1960 to 1964 conductor of the Opole State Symphony Orchestra. From 1964 to 1980 he then directed the Wroclaw Symphony Orchestra. In addition, he was director and artistic director of the Katowice Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1975-76 and General Music Director of the Ankara Symphony Orchestra from 1977 to 1979.

In 1979 he was one of the founders of the Leopoldinum Chamber Orchestra , of which he became the first director. From 1979 to 1990 he was deputy artistic director and conductor of the National Philharmonic in Warsaw , and from 1981 to 1986 conductor of the Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra. In the 1989–90 season he held the position of general music director of the National Symphony Orchestra in Istanbul, after which he was conductor of the Radio Symphony Orchestra in Warsaw until 1993. From 1994 to 2001 he worked as a permanent guest conductor with the Prague Symphony Orchestra. From 1998 to 2006 he directed the Chopin Festival in Gaming, Austria.

Strugała performed as a guest conductor with around 120 Polish and international symphony orchestras. He worked with well-known soloists such as Krystian Zimerman , Maurice André , Victoria de los Angeles , Martha Argerich , Stefan Askenase , Emanuel Ax , Gina Bachauer , Paul Badura-Skoda , Yuri Bashmet , Rudolf Buchbinder and Pierre Fournier , Bruno Leonardo Gelber , Natalia Gutman , Ida Haendel , Steven Isserlis , Byron Janis , Oleg Kagan , Louis Kentner , Elisabeth Leonskaja , John Lill , Zara Nelsova , Garrick Ohlssohn , Michel Ponti and Robert Cohen together. In addition to compositions by the Viennese classical and romantic, the focus is his repertoire of works by contemporary Polish composers like Bacewicz , Tadeusz Baird , Henryk Górecki , Wojciech Kilar , Witold Lutoslawski , Roman Maciejewski , Christopher Meyer , Zygmunt Mycielski , Roman Palester , Andrzej Panufnik , Krzysztof Penderecki , Peter Perkowski , Karol Szymanowski , Aleksander Tansman and Romuald Twardowski .

For more than 20 years - from 1954 to 1975 - Strugała was a lecturer at the Music Academy in Wroclaw, after which he taught at the Music Academy in Cracow. He also gave master classes in Hong Kong and Tokyo and acted as a juror in international conducting competitions. For his services he was honored with the Knight's Cross, the Officer's Cross, the Commander's Cross and the Commander's Cross of the Order Polonia Restituta , the gold medal "Gloria Artis" and an honorary doctorate from the Wroclaw University of Music.

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SURNAME	Strugała, Tadeusz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Polish conductor and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	February 10, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH	Katowice