Konstanty Andrzej Kulka

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Konstanty Andrzej Kulka (1980)

Konstanty Andrzej Kulka (born March 5, 1947 in Danzig ) is a Polish violinist .

From the age of eight, Kulka had violin lessons with Stefan Herman , which he continued with him at the music high school and at the State University of Music in Gdansk until 1971. In 1964 he won the International Niccolo Paganini Competition in Genoa and the ARD International Music Competition in Munich . From 1966 he gave more than 1500 concerts in almost every country in Europe, in North and South America, Australia and Japan. He has appeared as a soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic , the Chicago Symphony Orchestra , the London Symphony Orchestra , the Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra and the Leningrad Philharmonic and took part in festivals in Lucerne, Bordeaux, Flanders, Berlin, Prague, Barcelona, Brighton and Warsaw participated.

From 1968 Kulka appeared as a partner of the pianist Jerzy Marchwiński, on the Polish radio he played chamber music in a piano quartet with Stefan Kamasa , Roman Jabłoński and Jerzy Marchwiński. On record he took u. a. Compositions by Antonio Vivaldi , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , Alexander Glasunow , Édouard Lalo , Béla Bartók , Sergei Prokofjew , Ludwig van Beethoven , Johannes Brahms , Mieczysław Karłowicz , Paul Hindemith and Karol Szymanowski . The works of contemporary Polish composers such as Witold Lutosławski , Krzysztof Penderecki , Henryk Hubertus Jabłoński , Augustyn Bloch and Eugeniusz Knapik occupy an important place in his repertoire . Since 1994 he has been Professor of Music at the Fryderyk Chopin University . In 2008 the university awarded him an honorary doctorate.

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  1. ↑ Maestro Konstanty Andrzej Kulka receives Honorary Doctorate of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music. Fryderyk Chopin University of Music , May 17, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Kulka, Konstanty Andrzej
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish violinist
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig