{"id":880,"date":"2016-01-23T23:04:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-23T22:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/strony.amuz.krakow.pl\/?page_id=880"},"modified":"2022-12-09T14:05:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T13:05:26","slug":"katedra-jazzu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.amuz.krakow.pl\/en\/wydzialy\/wydzial-ii-instrumentalny\/katedra-jazzu\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of Jazz"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The idea behind the activities of the Department is expressed in the words of the founder of the Academy of Music in Krak\u00f3w, W\u0142adys\u0142aw \u017bele\u0144ski, appealing to “work with music in a creative and competent manner\u201d.<\/p>\n

We owe the permanent presence of jazz specialities at the Academy of Music in Krak\u00f3w to Professor\u00a0Jan Pilch, PhD, whose conceptual and organisational efforts led first to the formation of the Academy’s Big-Band in 2003, and subsequently to the establishment of instrumental jazz classes in 2007. Professor Jan Pilch became the head of the Department of Contemporary Music, Jazz and Percussion \u2013 a new organisational unit comprising classical percussionists, jazzmen and pedagogues responsible for contemporary music practice. The year 2020 saw a split of the Department of Contemporary Music, Jazz and Percussion into the Department of Percussion and Contemporary Music and the Department of Jazz headed by Piotr Wylez\u0307o\u0142, PhD (habil.).<\/p>\n

The first thirteen years of jazz specialities at the Academy of Music in Krak\u00f3w have been a period of numerous scientific and artistic events, such as:<\/p>\n