Marcin Stańczyk – a lawyer, composer, winner of the Toru Takemitsu Composition Award, scholarship IRCAM scholarship holder at the Pompidou Centre, Polish ambassador of culture in the framework of the 16 + 1 programme – talks to Anna Karahan about his impressions from his first study visit to China.
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Marcin Stańczyk, a lawyer and a composer, the only Pole to receive the prestigious Toru Takemitsu Composition Award, will represent Poland in the cultural cooperation programme between China and 16 European countries (16+1) in 2016 and 2017.
Włodek Pawlik – Grammy Award winning Polish composer, jazz pianist and teacher. Composer and performer of dozens of original jazz albums, and composer of film and theatre music. In an interview with Anna Karahan, he talks about his inspiration, new projects and the freedom of choice.
Sławomir Zubrzycki, a Polish pianist, composer and designer of old musical instruments, is talking with Anna Karahan about reconstructing viola organista, the power of imagination and his concerts.
A smile full of kindness, impeccable elegance, charm, yet clearly perceptible distance. At the piano, with a baton, or in the company of outstanding musicians, always charming. When he was working, he was on his element, permanently focused, stern, dignified and inaccessible. That is how Witold Lutoslawski remained in the memory of those who knew him only from photographs. Those who knew him personally remember the ennoblement that they felt in his company.
He is our national pride, symbol and icon of Polish culture. The vast majority of Poles can distinguish him from Mickiewicz and Kosciuszko. We also have no doubts that he lived in the nineteenth century, inspired by Polish folk music, composed music for the piano, created mazurkas, polonaises, nocturnes and ballades. Moreover, it is commonly known that his image appears on vodka, chocolates and postage stamps.