Zbigniew Śliwiński (pianist)

Zbigniew Śliwiński (born April 18, 1924 in Warsaw , † November 16, 2003 in Jędrzejow ) was a Polish pianist and music teacher .

Life

From 1937 to 1940 Śliwiński had piano lessons with Lech Miklaszewski in Milanówek. He then studied at the underground conservatory in Warsaw with Zofia Buckiewiczowa and took private lessons with Bolesław Woytowicz in Milanówek from 1944-45. After the war he studied at the State Academy of Music in Katowice with Bolesław Woytowicz until 1949, and from 1953 to 1956 he completed a graduate degree with him in Krakow.

As a concert pianist, Śliwiński has performed with conductors such as Andrzej Markowski , Kazimierz Kord , Antoni Wit and Tadeusz Strugała with almost all major Polish orchestras. He made recordings for the Polish Radio and performed as a chamber musician a. a. with the singers Irena Lewińska and Zofia Janukowicz .

Śliwiński gave piano lessons during the occupation. After the war he taught in the music schools of Milanówek, Kattowitz and Chorzów, and from 1946 he also directed a piano class at the State Music Academy in Katowice. From 1961 he taught at the State Music Academy in Sopot, from 1966 in Gdansk. From 1965 he held the chair for piano at the University of Gdansk , whose vice- rector he was from 1982 to 1984. 1982–83 he taught as a visiting professor at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts . He also gave master classes in Berlin, Brno, Duszniki, Stuttgart and Volterra. His students included u. a. Jerzy Sulikowski , Bogdan Czapiewski , Maciej Szymański , Ewa Pobłocka and Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń .

Piano concertos arranged for print by Michał Kleofas Ogiński , Franciszek Lessel , Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , as well as piano pedagogical works by Carl Czerny , Samuil Majkapar and Sergej Prokofjew . For his services Śliwiński u. a. Awarded the Knight's Cross, the Officer's Cross and the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1976, 1984 and 1994, respectively).

source

• culture.pl - Zbigniew Śliwiński