composer

composer and double bassist; b. 5th July 1954 in Warsaw. He studied double bass with Alfred Wieczorek and Andrzej Mysiński and composition with Włodzimierz Kotoński at the Warsaw Academy of Music. In 1986 he received the Witold Lutosławski scholarship....

Wieniawski Henryk

violinist, composer and teacher; b. 10th July 1835 in Lublin; d. 31 March 1880 in Moscow. His father Tadeusz was a renowned surgeon, and his mother Regina née Wolff – an excellent amateur pianist. The Wieniawski house was Lublin’s main artistic salon,...

Wieniawski Józef

Wierzbicki Marcin Mateusz

Wiłkomirski Józef

composer, cellist and conductor; b. 15th May 1926 in Kalisz; d. 1st August 2020. Son of Alfred Wiłkomirski, brother of Wanda and half-brother of Maria, Kazimierz and Michał. In the years 1936-1939 he attended the Helena Kijeńska-Dobkiewiczowa Music...

Wiłkomirski Kazimierz

Wincenty z Kielc

Wisłocki Leszek

Wisłocki Stanisław

Wiszniewski Zbigniew

Wnuk-Nazarowa Joanna

composer, conductor and teacher; b. 28th May 1949 in Gdynia. She has lived in Kraków since the age of 5. She studied piano and also took oboe and violin lessons at the Fryderyk Chopin Secondary Music School in Kraków. In 1974 she graduated from the...

Wojciechowski Sławomir

composer, journalist and translator; b. 3rd May 1971 in Łódź. Having completed two years of composition studies with Marian Borkowski at the Academy of Music in Warsaw (1995-97), he graduated from the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende...

Wojtacki Emil Bernard

composer, academic teacher, editor, and publisher. Born in 1981 in Olsztyn, he studied information technology at the University of Warmia and Mazury in 2000-01 and music theory at the Academy of Music in Kraków in 2001-07. In 2007 he obtained a degree...

Wołek Krzysztof

composer, improviser, installation artist; b. 14th April 1976 in Bytom. In 1999 he graduated from the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice in the composition class of Edward Bogusławski. Then he studied composition with Louis Andriessen,...

Wośko Miłosz

pianist, composer, arranger, music producer, songwriter; b. 25th May 1979 in Szczecin. He studied composition and arrangement at the Jazz and Popular Music Department of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice and at the Department of Sound...

Woytowicz Bolesław

Woźniak Franciszek

Woźny Joanna

composer, born on 27 July 1973 in Zabrze, in 1992-98 she studied philosophy at the Silesian University in Katowice. In 1996-2003 she studied composing with Beat Furrer at the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Graz, graduating with...

Woźny Zbigniew Stanisław

Wróbel Piotr

Zagajewski Artur

composer; b. 10th April 1978 in Tomaszów Mazowiecki. He graduated with honours from the music theory class of Ryszard Daniel Golianek (2005) and the composition class of Bronisław Kazimierz Przybylski (2008) at the Academy of Music in Łódź. In...

Zakrocki Patryk

Zakrzewska Barbara

Zalewski Ignacy

Załubska Paulina

composer; b. 6th April 1984 in Kraków. She studied composition with Krystyna Moszumańska-Nazar and later with Anna Zawadzka-Gołosz at the Faculty of Composition, Interpretation and Musical Education of the Academy of Music in Kraków (diplomas with...

Zamuszko Sławomir

Zapała Rafał

composer, sound artist, improviser (piano, drums, electronics); b. 1st November 1975 in Kielce; d. 18 July 2025 in Poznań. He studied the piano with Jolanta Płoska at the Secondary Music School in Kielce. Apart from playing the piano, he was associated...

Widłak Wojciech

Wiechowicz Stanisław

Wielecki Tadeusz