Witold Szalonek

Witold Szalonek, ein Foto für das Musikfestival “Warszawska Jesień” (Warschauer Herbst) 1985
Witold Szalonek, ein Foto für das Musikfestival “Warszawska Jesień” (Warschauer Herbst) 1985

Curriculum vitae:
 

02.03.1927     Witold Szalonek was born in Czechowice-Dziedzice (Poland/Silesia)

1939 - 1945 – piano lessons at the private Conservatorium in Bytom

1945 - 1949 – Music grammar school in Katowice

1949 – A-levels at the music grammar school in Katowice

1949 - 1956   Student at the State Music Academy in Katowice

1962 - 1963   Composition studies in Paris

1967 – Composition teacher at the State Music Academy in Katowice

From 1970 – Seminars and courses in composition techniques at universities in Denmark, Germany, Finland, Poland and Slovakia

1970 - 1971 – DAAD grant in Berlin

1970 - 1974 – Head of the department of music theory and composition at the State Music Academy in Katowice

1973 - 1992 - Professor of Composition at the Academy of the Arts in Berlin (until his retirement)

12.10.2001 Witold Szalonek dies in Berlin


Important awards:
 

1952 – Second prize in the Polish Composers’ Union competition for “Pastorale” (Oboe and Piano)

1964 – The Music Prize of the city of Katowice

1966 – Third prize in the Artur-Malawski Composers’ competition for “Quattro monologhi per oboe solo”

1967 – The Prize of the Ministry of Culture and Art

1968 – Second prize at the Artur Malawski Composers’ competition for “Mutazioni”

1990 – An honorary doctorate (doctor honoris causa) from the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster

1994 – The prize of the Polish Composers’ Union

1999 – “The Silesian Culture Prize” awarded by the state of Lower Saxony

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