Andrzej Guz

Andrzej Guz (* before 1960 ) is a Polish pianist and music teacher.

Guz began his piano training at the Pabianice Music Center and continued it at the State Elementary School of Music in Łódź near Zdzisława Roszkowska . From 1970 he was a student of Maria Wiłkomirska at the Łódź Music Academy and studied chamber music with Kiejstut Bacewicz and Bronisław Hajna . After graduating with honors in 1973, he continued his studies at the Warsaw Music Academy with Maria Wiłkomirska on a scholarship from the Fryderyk Chopin Society until 1978 , where he studied chamber music with Kazimierz Wiłkomirski and Jerzy Marchwiński . In 1978 he received the diploma with distinction. In Weimar, Guz took part in international music courses from Wera Gornostajewa (1973) and Rudolf Kehrer (1975). As a Fulbright scholar , he finally studied at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore from 1983-84 .

As a chamber musician, he took part in numerous national and international violin, viola, cello and singing competitions (including Krakow, Poznań, Lublin, Łódź, Prague, Moscow, Zagreb, Folkestone, Vienna, Belgrade, Weimar, Markneukirchen and Hanover). In Poland and abroad he gave duet recitals in the repertoire, among others with the violinists Konstanty Andrzej Kulka , Anna Wódka-Janikowska , Piotr Pławner and Łukasz Błaszczyk , the violists Stefan Kamasa and Rajmund Główczyński and the cellist Maria Czajkowska .

From 1979 Guz taught at the Warsaw Music Academy as an assistant to Jerzy Marchwiński . In 2007 he received an extraordinary professorship and teaches piano chamber music. He is also active as a teacher for piano and chamber music at preparatory music schools. In 2001 he was appointed an expert in professional teacher training by the Ministry of National Education. The Polish Minister of Culture and Art awarded him the order of “Meritorious Cultural Activist ” (Zasłużony Działacz Kultury) .

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• prof. UMFC Andrzej Guz. Fryderyk Chopin University of Music (Chair of Chamber Music for Piano; Polish)
• Andrzej Guz at Discogs (English)