Joachim Grubich

Joachim Grubich (born January 16, 1935 in Chełmno ) is a Polish organist and music teacher .

Joachim Grubich (2008)

Career

From 1956 to 1961 Grubich studied organ with Bronisław Rutkowski , piano with Ludwik Stefański and harmony and counterpoint with Artur Malawski at the State Music Academy in Kraków . From 1961 to 1964 he worked in the music department of the Polish Radio in Cracow. From 1964 he taught at the State Academy of Music in Cracow, where he received an extraordinary professorship in 1969 . From 1970 he taught at the State University of Music (today Fryderyk Chopin University of Music ) in Warsaw, from 1994–95 he was visiting professor in Seoul .

In 1961 he was a prizewinner at the competition for early music in Łódź , the following year he won first prize at the International Music Competition in Geneva . This was followed by international concert activities with performances in the Royal Festival Hall in London, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the De Doelen in Rotterdam, the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, the Schauspielhaus in Berlin, the Victoria Hall in Geneva, the Crystal Cathedral in California, the cathedral from Strasbourg, at the Conservatory and Philharmonic in Moscow and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic. He worked with numerous orchestras and chamber orchestras under conductors Massimo Pradella, Aldo Ceccato , Ferruccio Scaglia, David Daniels, Mircea Basarab, André Lodéon, Bohdan Wodiczko , Witold Krzemienski , Andrzej Markowski, George Katlewicz , Christopher Misson, Tadeusz Strugała , Karol Teutsch, Mark Pijarowski and Tomasz Bugaj and recorded 26 albums.

honors and awards

Grubich received prizes from the Ministry of Art and Culture (1978 and 2004), the Golden Cross of Merit (1984), the Art Prize of the City of Krakow, the Prize of the Phonographic Academy “Fryderyk 2004”, the Officer's Cross and Commander of the Order Polonia Restituta (2005 and . 2010), the papal order Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice (2006) and an honorary doctorate from the Warsaw Fryderyk Chopin Music Academy (2007; today Fryderyk Chopin University of Music).

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• Joachim Grubich on Culture.pl
• Joachim Grubich at the Polish Music Information Center (Polskie Centrum Informacji Muzycznej)