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\u00a9 Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne. Photo – Bartek Barczyk<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

Wojciech Wid\u0142ak, composer, profesor and from 2020 until 2024 rector of The Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Krakow, native Cracovian, born 1971 in a family with multi-generational musical traditions. In the field of composition he was a student of Marek Stachowski (1990-96, Academy of Music in Krak\u00f3w) and Hans Abrahamsen (1999, Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen). He enhanced his skills as a composer under the direction of a.o. Franco Donatoni, Per N\u00f8rg\u00e5rd, Goce Kolarovski, Robert Saxton. The graduate of the organ class of Jan Jargon (1990-95).<\/p>\n

Laureate of several composition competitions,\u00a0incl. a prestigious recommendation of the 56th<\/sup>\u00a0International Rostrum of Composers UNESCO in Paris, 2006 (for “Earthsumption” for orchestra and organ). Author of dozens of works\u00a0performed till now in 16 European countries, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Japan, South Korea, Turkey, USA, Mexico, recorded on a dozen of CDs in Poland and Italy, printed in Poland, France, Germany, commissioned by institutions, artists and ensembles of international renown (a.o.\u00a0The Warsaw Autumn Friends’ Foundation and the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung M\u00fcnchen, Polish Institute of Music and Dance and\u00a0Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, The National Museum in Cracow).<\/p>\n

In his early works\u00a0from the 90’s Wojciech Wid\u0142ak was using traditional, distinct harmony, expressive rhythm and obsessive repeatability. Since 2000 he has turned into more radical timbre, multilayered structure, game of musical idioms. Lately, he has been focusing on expression’s extremes, microtonality, perceptual time and his original conception of \u201eswivel harmony”. When reflecting on composition, he compares the process with the work of a sculptor. He finds inspiration in the visual sphere, in words and in the “images of the imagination”. He perceives the essence of his work as creating and expressing an individual world of sounds and experiences, discovering beauty and sharing it with a listener.<\/p>\n

In addition to composing orchestral, chamber, solo and choral music, an area of Wojciech Wid\u0142ak’s activity is church music. Since 1987 for almost 20 years he was active as church organ player in several catholic churches of Cracovian Archdiocese. 1998-2003 he was the first director of Diocesan School of Church Music in Bielsko-Bia\u0142a. He is author of religious works as well as utilitarian music for liturgical purposes (chants, arrangements, harmonizations). In 2000s for a few years he was member of Polish Church Music Association, active also in the Commission for Church Music of Cracovian Archdiocese.<\/p>\n

At the age of 41 Wojciech Wid\u0142ak received the title of Professor of Art from the President of Poland, having obtained before the first degree qualifications (PhD, 1999) and habilitation (Ass. Prof. degree, 2004). At the Academy of Music in Cracow\u00a0he has got a class of composition in which young composers from Poland and many other countries have studied (China, Brasil, Great Britain, Hungary, Lithuania, Norway, Slovakia, Syria, Turkey, Ukraine, USA). Among his students and graduates are: Katarzyna Szwed, Marcin P\u0105czkowski, R. Yigit \u00d6zatalay, Michal Pal’ko, Nadim Husni, Jaros\u0142aw P\u0142onka, Peter Javorka, Pawe\u0142 Malinowski, Pawe\u0142 Siek\u00a0et al<\/em>. He has been a supervisor of several doctorates in music arts (harpsichordist Goska Isphording, composers: Henryk J. Botor, Jaros\u0142aw P\u0142onka, Micha\u0142 Gronowicz, Issidoros Papadakis, Josu\u00e8 W. Amador, Wassim Ibrahim). He has held guest-lectures and composition masterclasses in USA, Israel, Turkey, Italy, Lithuania, Slovakia and Hungary. Employed since 1995 at the Academy of Music in Kracow, first at Chair of Organ, and since 1996 \u2013 at Chair of Composition (from 2005 to 2020 and again from 2024 as its head). 2012-2020 Dean of the Faculty of Music Composition, Interpretation and Education. During his tenure this Faculty twice obtained the prestigious, distinctive scientific category A+ (in 2013 as the only music faculty in Poland, and also in 2017).<\/p>\n

Wojciech Wid\u0142ak is a member of the Polish Composers’ Union.\u00a0He was a\u00a0member of jury panels in several composition competitions in Poland and Italy. The main publisher of Wid\u0142ak’s music\u00a0\u00a0is PWM Edition (Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne).<\/p>\n

www.widlak.art.pl<\/a><\/p>\n

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