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Music level is very high in Armenia: Krzysztof Penderecki
11:42, 18 January, 2014
YEREVAN, JANUARY 18, ARMENPRESS. A true connoisseur of human
psychology, Polish composer and conductor Krzysztof Penderecki
knows how to excite people through music. Krzysztof Penderecki, who
uses a variety of tricks in music and who has Armenian origin,
managed to excite even the Armenian audience. "20th century Beethoven"
spent around 6 days in Armenia within the frames of
"Days of Krzysztof Penderecki in Armenia" festive celebrations. 80-
year-old composer was venerated at the course of the festive days
in Armenia congratulating the maestro on the occasion of his
anniversary. The newly appointed honorary member of Armenia's
Union of Composers and Musicologists will carry an immense "basket" of
emotions and impressions from Armenia to Poland this
year. "Armenpress" had a conversation with Krzysztof Penderecki on his
impressions, his Armenian grandmother, meeting with Aram
Khachaturian and other issues.
Krzysztof Penderecki was born in Dębica on 23 November, 1933. He
studied composition privately with Franciszek Skołyszewski and
then (1955-8) with Artur Malawski and Stanisław Wiechowicz at the
State Higher School of Music in Kraków, where he also taught, being
appointed its rector (i.e., president) in 1972 (in the 1980s the
School was renamed "Academy of Music). Penderecki's career had a very
auspicious
beginning. In 1959 he came suddenly to prominence when three of his
works won first prizes in a national competition organized by the
Polish Composers' Union (he submitted them under different
pseudonyms). His reputation quickly spread abroad, notably through
perfomances of such works as Anaklasis (written for the 1960
Donaueschigen Festival) and Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima. The
latter piece, as well as the Passion according to St. Luke of 1963-
5, found an unusually wide audience for contemporary works, and
Penderecki soon received important commissions from diverse
organizations in Europe and the USA. He has also appeared widely as a
lecturer and in 1972 began to conduct his own compositions.
Penderecki has won numerous domestic and foreign prizes including the
First Class State Award (1968, 1983), the Polish Composers' Union
Prize (1970), the Herder Prize (1977), the Sibelius Prize (1983), the
Premio Lorenzo Magnifico (1985), the Israeli Karl Wolff Foundation
Prize (1987), a Grammy Award (1988), a Grawemeyer Award (1992), and a
UNESCO International Music Council Award (1993). He has
honorary doctorates from universities in Rochester, Bordeaux, Leuven,
Belgrade, Washington, Madrit, Poznań, Warsaw and Glasgow. He is
an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music in London, Accademia
Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Musikaliska Academien in
Stockholm, Akademie der Kunste in Berlin, Academia Nacional de Bellas
Artes in Buenos Aires, Academie Internationale de Philosophie et
de I' Art in Bern, Academie Internationale des Sciences,
Belles-lettres et Arts in Bordeaux, and the Royal Academy of Music in
Dublin. In
1990 he received the Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the
Federal Republic of Germany, in 1993 the Order of Cultural Merit
(Monaco), and in 1994 an Austrian honorary distinction For
Achievements in Science and Arts. In 1993 he was decorated with the
Commander's Cross with the star of the Order of Polonia Restituta.
Penderecki's teaching career developed in Germany, the U.S. and
Poland. He taught composition at the Volkwang Hochschule fur Music,
Essen (from 1966 to 1968); in 1973-78 he lectured at Yale University
in New Haven. In 1982-87 he was rector of the Academy of Music in
Kraków, in 1987-1990 he served as the artistic director of the Cracow
Philharmonic. Since his conductor's debut with the London Symphony
Orchestra (1973), he has performed with prominent symphony orchestras
in the United States and Europe, and he is chief guest conductor
of the Norddeutscher Rundfunk Orchestra in Hamburg. Apart from his own
works, his conducting repertoire covers the works of composers
from various epochs, with a preference for 19th-century and early
20th-century compositions. In 1997 he published a book entitled "The
Labyrinth of Time. Five Lectures at the End of the Century (Warsaw,
"Presspublica"). In 1996 the performance of his piece Seven Gates of
Jerusalem, commissioned by the city, commemorated the celebrations of
"Jerusalem - 3000 Years." in Israel.
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2014/01/18/Pension-jan18/
From: Baghdasarian
11:42, 18 January, 2014
YEREVAN, JANUARY 18, ARMENPRESS. A true connoisseur of human
psychology, Polish composer and conductor Krzysztof Penderecki
knows how to excite people through music. Krzysztof Penderecki, who
uses a variety of tricks in music and who has Armenian origin,
managed to excite even the Armenian audience. "20th century Beethoven"
spent around 6 days in Armenia within the frames of
"Days of Krzysztof Penderecki in Armenia" festive celebrations. 80-
year-old composer was venerated at the course of the festive days
in Armenia congratulating the maestro on the occasion of his
anniversary. The newly appointed honorary member of Armenia's
Union of Composers and Musicologists will carry an immense "basket" of
emotions and impressions from Armenia to Poland this
year. "Armenpress" had a conversation with Krzysztof Penderecki on his
impressions, his Armenian grandmother, meeting with Aram
Khachaturian and other issues.
Krzysztof Penderecki was born in Dębica on 23 November, 1933. He
studied composition privately with Franciszek Skołyszewski and
then (1955-8) with Artur Malawski and Stanisław Wiechowicz at the
State Higher School of Music in Kraków, where he also taught, being
appointed its rector (i.e., president) in 1972 (in the 1980s the
School was renamed "Academy of Music). Penderecki's career had a very
auspicious
beginning. In 1959 he came suddenly to prominence when three of his
works won first prizes in a national competition organized by the
Polish Composers' Union (he submitted them under different
pseudonyms). His reputation quickly spread abroad, notably through
perfomances of such works as Anaklasis (written for the 1960
Donaueschigen Festival) and Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima. The
latter piece, as well as the Passion according to St. Luke of 1963-
5, found an unusually wide audience for contemporary works, and
Penderecki soon received important commissions from diverse
organizations in Europe and the USA. He has also appeared widely as a
lecturer and in 1972 began to conduct his own compositions.
Penderecki has won numerous domestic and foreign prizes including the
First Class State Award (1968, 1983), the Polish Composers' Union
Prize (1970), the Herder Prize (1977), the Sibelius Prize (1983), the
Premio Lorenzo Magnifico (1985), the Israeli Karl Wolff Foundation
Prize (1987), a Grammy Award (1988), a Grawemeyer Award (1992), and a
UNESCO International Music Council Award (1993). He has
honorary doctorates from universities in Rochester, Bordeaux, Leuven,
Belgrade, Washington, Madrit, Poznań, Warsaw and Glasgow. He is
an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music in London, Accademia
Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Musikaliska Academien in
Stockholm, Akademie der Kunste in Berlin, Academia Nacional de Bellas
Artes in Buenos Aires, Academie Internationale de Philosophie et
de I' Art in Bern, Academie Internationale des Sciences,
Belles-lettres et Arts in Bordeaux, and the Royal Academy of Music in
Dublin. In
1990 he received the Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the
Federal Republic of Germany, in 1993 the Order of Cultural Merit
(Monaco), and in 1994 an Austrian honorary distinction For
Achievements in Science and Arts. In 1993 he was decorated with the
Commander's Cross with the star of the Order of Polonia Restituta.
Penderecki's teaching career developed in Germany, the U.S. and
Poland. He taught composition at the Volkwang Hochschule fur Music,
Essen (from 1966 to 1968); in 1973-78 he lectured at Yale University
in New Haven. In 1982-87 he was rector of the Academy of Music in
Kraków, in 1987-1990 he served as the artistic director of the Cracow
Philharmonic. Since his conductor's debut with the London Symphony
Orchestra (1973), he has performed with prominent symphony orchestras
in the United States and Europe, and he is chief guest conductor
of the Norddeutscher Rundfunk Orchestra in Hamburg. Apart from his own
works, his conducting repertoire covers the works of composers
from various epochs, with a preference for 19th-century and early
20th-century compositions. In 1997 he published a book entitled "The
Labyrinth of Time. Five Lectures at the End of the Century (Warsaw,
"Presspublica"). In 1996 the performance of his piece Seven Gates of
Jerusalem, commissioned by the city, commemorated the celebrations of
"Jerusalem - 3000 Years." in Israel.
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2014/01/18/Pension-jan18/
From: Baghdasarian