ethnochoreologist; b. 28th November 1921 in Warsaw; d. 12v May 2016 in Warsaw. She studied pedagogy in Łódź and ethnography in Warsaw (under W. Dynowski) and Wrocław (with A. Nasz). In 1957-61 she attended Laban-Knust kinetography courses run by...
Polish composer and music teacher, b. 2nd May 1913 in Rosko near Czarnków on the Noteć River, d. 20th November 2002 in Poznań. In 1930-39 he studied theory of music with Stefan Bolesław Poradowski and piano with Edward Rezler at Bydgoszcz City Music...
ethnomusicologist; b. 21st July 1958 in Warsaw. In 1977-82 she studied at the Institute of Musicology at the University of Warsaw, receiving a degree with honours for a thesis on folk techniques of playing fiddle (on the example of the Kielce region),...
violinist and pedagogue; b. 25th March 1949 in Kraków. At the age of eight she started studying the violin with Eugenia Umińska, who became her teacher at the State Higher School of Music in Kraków. She graduated with honours in 1972. In the same year,...
composer, jazz violinist and conductor, b. 26 October 1953 in Wałbrzych. He studied composition with Andrzej Koszewski and conducting with Witold Krzemieński at the State Higher School of Music in Poznań. From 1980, as the leader of the "String...
composer, conductor, music producer (working under the pseudonym JIMEK); b. 30 April 1987 in Szczecin. He started his musical education at the age of 6. He studied violin, percussion, trumpet, and piano. Having graduated from the St. Paul’s British...
ethnographer; b. 22nd February 1907 in Tomaszów Mazowiecki, d. 20th November 1988 in Łódź. At the age of 19 he enrolled in a teaching collage in Tomaszów, emerging with a diploma in 1931. While still a student he joined a Student Tourist Club, and...
conductor; b. 3rd April 1981 in Koszalin. In 2005 she finished with distinction Mieczysław Gawronski's conducting class at Karol Lipinski Academy of Music in Wroclaw. She finished at Universitat fur Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna Uros Lajovic's...
conductor, composer; b. 17th January 1983 in Gdynia. He graduated with distinctions in both music theory (2008) and composition (from Andrzej Dziadek’s composition class – 2011) from the Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk. In 2013 he also...
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