Halina Nowacka-Durnaś
Halina Nowacka-Durnaś (born October 30, 1909 in Poznan , † September 28, 2005 in Szczecin ) was a Polish pianist and teacher, co-founder of music schools in Szczecin in the post-war years.
Life
Halina Nowacka-Durnaś (also known as Halina Durnasiowa) studied with Zygmunt Lisicki at the Conservatory in Bydgoszcz (Bromberg) and with Gertruda Konatkowska in Poznan, where she lived since 1936. Until the outbreak of the Second World War , she made several recordings for the regional stations of the Polish Radio in Bromberg, Thorn and Posen. In 1940 she and her family were forcibly relocated to Janowiec near Lublin . In 1942 she married her first student, the veterinarian and major of the underground army Armia Krajowa (AK) Stanisław Marian Durnaś, who was arrested by the German occupiers in May 1944 for participating in the resistance and executed a month later. Her brother was the university professor and president of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) Witold Nowacki .
Act
In August 1945 Halina Nowacka-Durnaś came to the now Polish city of Szczecin with her young son to organize the first concert agency and the music school system. In February 1946 she opened the first post-war music school in Szczecin, which was nationalized on January 1, 1950. Until her retirement in 1986 she taught piano at the State Music School of the Second Degree " Feliks Nowowiejski " in Szczecin and at the music high school there. In 1991 she was awarded the title of "Honored Teacher of the Republic of Poland" by President Lech Wałęsa .
Nowacka-Durnaś trained a whole generation of Szczecin pianists and music teachers. One of her numerous students was the composer and university professor Marek Jasiński , another the music teacher, critic and composer Roman Kraszewski .
Individual evidence
- ^ Encyclopedia Pomorza Zachodniego. Retrieved November 21, 2016 (Polish).
- ↑ Wlodzimierz Gibasiewicz: Niepowtarzalni. Lekarze weterynarii ofiary II wojny światowej . Krajowa Izba Lekarsko-Weterynaryjna, Warszawa 2009, ISBN 978-83-928526-3-6 , p. 20 .
- ↑ Piotr Piechocki (Ed.): Zespół Szkół Muzycznych im. Feliksa Nowowiejskiego w Szczecinie. 60-lecie (commemorative publication for the 60th anniversary of the "Feliks Nowowiejski" music school association in Stettin) . ZSM, Szczecin 2006, p. 13/14 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nowacka-Durnaś, Halina |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish pianist and teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 30, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Poses |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 28, 2005 |
| Place of death | Szczecin |