composer

Pączkowski Marcin

composer, conductor and performer of acoustic and electroacoustic music. Born in 1983 in Kraków, he graduated from the Academy of Music in Kraków, having studied composition with Wojciech Widłak and conducting with Rafał Delekta. He then continued his...

Paderewski Ignacy Jan

Padlewski Roman

Palester Roman

composer, b. 28th December 1907 in Śniatyń (now Sniatyn, Ukraine), d. 25th August 1989 in Paris. He started learning the piano at the age of seven; he studied this instrument in the Music Institute in Cracow (1919-21), then with Maria Sołtys in Lvov...

Pałłasz Edward

composer, b. 30th August 1936 in Starogard Gdański; died 22nd December 2019. After studies at the Mechanical-Technological Departments of Gdańsk and Warsaw Polytechnics (1953-58), he studied musicology at Warsaw University (graduated in 1964). He is a...

Pałosz Mikołaj

Pałyga Bartłomiej

multi-instrumentalist and composer; b. 1st February 1979 in Warsaw. Pupil and collaborator of Maria Pomianowska. He learnt the ethnic vocal techniques and instrument playing from genuine folk masters performing traditional music. He specialises in...

Panufnik Andrzej

composer and conductor, b. 24th September 1914 in Warsaw, d. 27th October 1991 in Twickenham. In 1932-36 he studied music theory and composition with Kazimierz Sikorski at Warsaw Conservatory, obtaining an honours degree. In 1937-38 he started...

Panufnik Roxanna

British composer of Polish heritage, daughter of Andrzej Panufnik; b. 24th April 1968 in London, United Kingdom. She graduated from composition studies at the Royal Academy of Music under Paul Petersson, Melanie Daiken and Hanz Werner Hanze. She also...

Papara Michał

composer and music theoretician; b. 7th April 1984 in Kraków. He studied violin in the Stanisław Wichowicz Primary Music School and the Władysław Żeleński Secondary Music School in Kraków. In 2006 he graduated from Jagiellonian University with a...

Pasieczny Marek

Pasternak Klaudia

Patkowski Józef

musicologist and composer; b. 15th November 1929 in Vilnius, d. 26th October 2005 in Warsaw. He graduated in musicology from Warsaw University (1953) after studies with Prof. Zofia Lissa. His master’s thesis concerned The Significance of Acoustic...

Pawlak Ireneusz

musicologist, composer, teacher; b. 22nd March 1935 in Września; d. 15th July 2020 in Lubartów. In 1954-60 he studied philosophy and theology at the Archbishop's Ecclesiastical Seminary in Gniezno. In 1960 he was ordained a priest. In the same year, he...

Pawlik Łukasz

Pawlik Piotr

Pawlik Włodek

Pawłowski Kamil

composer and double-bassist; b. 2nd February 1986 in Bytom. In 2005 he completed with honours the Fryderyk Chopin Primary and Secondary School of Music in Bytom, having studied double bass with Gerard Przybyła. While at the school, he took piano...

Pęcherzewska-Hadrych Anna

Pękiel Bartłomiej

Penderecki Krzysztof

composer and conductor, b. 23rd October 1933 in Dębica; d. 29th March 2020 in Kraków. He studied composition in 1954-58 with Artur Malawski and, after the latter’s death – with Stanisław Wiechowicz in the State Higher School of Music in Kraków. In...

Penherski Zbigniew

composer; b. 26 January 1935 in Warsaw, d. 4 February 2019 in Warsaw. He studied composition with Stefan Bolesław Poradowski at the State Higher School of Music in Poznań (1955-56) and with Tadeusz Szeligowski at the State Higher School of Music in...

Perkowski Piotr

composer and academic teacher, b. 17th March 1901 in Oweczacze (now in Ukraine), d. 12th August 1990 in Otwock. In 1923-25 he studied composition with Roman Statkowski in Warsaw Conservatory as well as privately with Karol Szymanowski. He continued his...

Peszat Piotr

composer, sound artist and author of installations; b. 29th June 1990 in Kraków. He studied composition with Krzysztof Meyer at the Academy of Music in Kraków and Simon Steen-Andersen at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus. He has participated in...

Pfeiffer Irena

Pieniek Grzegorz

Grzegorz Pieniek, composer, b. 18th November 1982, Kamień Pomorski. He graduated with an honours degree in 2008 after composition studies with Lidia Zielińska at the Academy of Music in Poznań. He continued his composition studies with Michael Jarrell...

Pieprzyk Łukasz

composer, producer, video-art maker. Born on 9 March 1985 in Katowice, in 2004-09 he studied composition under Professor Zbigniew Bujarski at Academy of Music in Kraków, graduating with honours. He also studied with Professor Marek Chołoniewski at the...