Peter Paul Koprowski

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Peter Paul Koprowski ( Piotr Paweł Koprowski ; born August 24, 1947 in Łódź , Poland ) is a Canadian composer, pianist, conductor and music teacher of Polish origin.

Koprowski studied from 1966 to 1969 at the State Music Academy in Cracow with Bolesław Woytowicz , where he directed an ensemble for new music. From 1969 to 1971 he continued his training with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. In 1971 he emigrated to Canada and began studying for a PhD in composition with John Weinzweig at the University of Toronto . In 1973 he became an assistant professor at McGill University in Montreal, and since 1974 he has taught at the University of Western Ontario . In 1981 he was composer in residence of the Leighton Artists' Colony , the Banff Center for the Arts and 1988-89 of the Canadian Opera Company (COC).

Koprowski became known with orchestral works such as In Memoriam Karol Szymanowski (1963). For the COC he composed the one-act opera Dulcitius , which premiered in 1989. His Letters for mezzo-soprano, violin, clarinet and piano was premiered by Laura Pudwell in 1984 ; he composed a viola concerto for Rivka Golani in 1995 and a trumpet concerto for Eric Schulz in 1998. His Millennium Cantata was performed in 2001 by the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra and the Ottawa Choral Society , the symphonic work Behind the Iron Curtain in 2005 by the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra under Andrey Boreyko . Koprowski received the Jules Léger Prize twice : in 1989 for the Sonnet for Laura and in 1994 for his Woodwind Quintet . His Viola Concerto was awarded the National Music Award of the Chalmers Fund excellent and for a Juno Award nomination (2002). In 2005 he was awarded the Polonia Restituta Order, and in 2009 he received the National Arts Center Award for Canadian Composers.

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SURNAME Koprowski, Peter Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koprowski, Piotr Paweł
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian composer, pianist, conductor and music teacher of Polish origin
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Łódź