Stefan Kamasa

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Stefan Kamasa (born July 18, 1930 in Bielsk Podlaski ) is a Polish violist and music teacher .

Kamasa studied from 1948 to 1963 at the State Music Academy in Poznan with Jan Rakowski and continued his education from 1953 to 1956 at the State Music Academy in Warsaw with Tadeusz Wroński and 1957-1958 in Paris with Pierre Pasquier .

As a chamber musician, he was a member of the Warsaw Quartet (from 1962) and the Quartet of Polish Radio and Television ( Kwartet Mistrzów ) (with Konstanty Andrzej Kulka , Roman Jabłoński and Jerzy Marchwiński ) and performed as a soloist with major European symphony orchestras ( Dresden Philharmonic , Royal Philharmonic) Orchestra , Orchester National de France ) under the direction of conductors such as Charles Groves , Stanislaw Skrowaczewski , Jan Krenz , Moshe Atzmon , Jerzy Maksymiuk , Eliahu Inbal , Hiryoki Iwaki , Manuel Rosenthal , Witold Rowicki and Antoni Wit .

His repertoire includes works for the viola from the baroque period to the present. Tadeusz Natanson , Roman Palester , Krzysztof Penderecki , Marek Stachowski , Tadeusz Wieczorek , François Rose and Marc Cales wrote works for him. With Grażyna Bacewicz ' Orpheus he won the prize for best conductor at the Warsaw Autumn Festival in 1970 , and the Diapason d'or in 1989 with a composition by Tadeusz Baird .

Since 1958 Kamasa has taught at the Warsaw State Music Academy, where he received the title of Associate Professor in 1980. In addition, from 1984 he was professor of viola at the Conservatory of Tarbes and visiting professor at the Krakow Conservatory and led masterclasses in St. Petersburg, Stockholm, Karlsruhe, Düsseldorf, Bordeaux, Toulouse and at the Louisiana State University . In 1975 he received the Prize of the Minister of Culture and Art of the First Degree, in 1977 the Prize of the Polish Composers' Association and was awarded the Golden Cross of Merit of the Republic of Poland and the Knight's Cross of the Polonia Restituta Order.

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SURNAME Kamasa, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish violist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielsk Podlaski