Academy of Music in Kraków

{{Infobox school

| name = The Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Kraków

| native_name = Akademia Muzyczna im. Krzysztofa Pendereckiego w Krakowie

| latin_name =

| logo =

| image = Akademia Muzyczna Kraków.JPG

| caption = The main building of the Academy at St. Thomas Street in Kraków Old Town; view from Planty Park

| motto = "Per Academiam ad astra"

| streetaddress = ul. św. Tomasza 43

| region = Lesser Poland

| city = Kraków

| postcode = 31-515

| country = Poland

| coordinates = {{coord|50|03|42.1|N|19|56|35.9|E|type:landmark|display=inline,title}}

| founded = 1888

| founder = Władysław Żeleński

| status = Public

| rector = Prof. dr hab. Wojciech Widłak

| affiliations = The European Association of Conservatoires, Association of Baltic Academies of Music, CEEPUS, Socrates-Erasmus

| website = {{URL|http://www.amuz.krakow.pl}}

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The Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Kraków ({{langx|pl|Akademia Muzyczna im. Krzysztofa Pendereckiego w Krakowie}}) is a conservatory located in central Kraków, Poland. It is the alma mater of the renowned Polish contemporary composer Krzysztof Penderecki, who was also its rector for 15 years. The academy is the only one in Poland to have two winners of the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw (Halina Czerny-Stefańska and Adam Harasiewicz) as well as a few further prize-winners among its alumni.{{cite web|url=http://www.amuz.krakow.pl/pl/29/2/7/Historia |title=Mission statement |publisher=Akademia Muzyczna w Krakowie (homepage) |access-date=June 15, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120603084122/http://www.amuz.krakow.pl/pl/29/2/7/Historia |archive-date=June 3, 2012 }}

Historical background

The academy was founded in 1888 by the eminent Polish composer Władysław Żeleński thanks to his artistic connections and patronage of Princess Marcelina Czartoryska, a concert pianist and former pupil of Frédéric Chopin.{{Cite web |title=Akademia Muzyczna w Krakowie obchodzi 130. rocznicę działalności |url=https://www.pap.pl/aktualnosci/news,1107592,akademia-muzyczna-w-krakowie-obchodzi-130-rocznice-dzialalnosci.html |access-date=2024-04-05 |website=www.pap.pl}} Until 1945 it operated as a conservatory under the name of Conservatory of the Music Society or, the Cracow Conservatory. During the partitions of Poland, as the region of Lesser Poland and Kraków was ruled by the Austrian Empire – in the late 18th century, it was necessary to gain the consent of the Austrian administration and meet the imperial requirements set for all conservatoires. The newly opened school was inspected by Joseph Dachs and Johann Fuchs, both professors of the Vienna Conservatoire, and received their enthusiastic opinion. It enjoyed a period of great growth in the twenty years between the two wars under directors Wiktor Barabasz and Boleslaw Wallek-Walewski.

The professorial staff included such names as Zbigniew Drzewiecki, Jan Gall, Zdzisław Jachimecki, Egon Petri and Severin Eisenberger.

Closed during the Nazi occupation of 1939–1945, especially after Sonderaktion Krakau in 1939, the conservatoire continued its activity underground and finally reopened on 1 September 1945, becoming the State Higher School of Music as of 1 February 1946 under its first rector, Prof. Zbigniew Drzewiecki. In 1979 it gained the rank of an Academy of Music. On 1 October 2000 the academy inaugurated its new premises at 41–43, St. Thomas Street (ul. Sw. Tomasza).

Structure

File:Krzysztof Penderecki 20080706.jpg (b. 1933)]]

= Composition, Interpretation and Music Education Faculty =

Composition Department
Conducting Department
Music Theory and Interpretation Department
Music and Education Research Department
Choral Department
Religious Music Department
Electroacoustic Music Studio

=Instrumental Faculty=

Piano Department
Organ Department
Early Music Department
Guitar and Harp Department
Violin and Viola Department
Cello and Double Bass Department
Woodwinds and Accordicon Department
Brass Department
Jazz Department
Percussion and Contemporary Music Department
Chamber Music Department

= Voice and Drama Faculty =

Voice Department

People associated with the academy

File:Krzysztof Meyer.jpg (b. 1943)]]

=Notable alumni=

The list does not include graduates who later became staff of the Academy.

Sylvia Čápová-Vizváry, pianist{{cite web|last=Jancik|first=Filip|title=Curriculum Vitae|url=http://www.sylviacapova-vizvary.com/biography.html|work=Sylvia Čápová - Vizváry|access-date=22 October 2017|year=2013}}
Halina Czerny-Stefańska (pianist)
Janina Garscia (composer)
Adam Harasiewicz (pianist)
Jan Hoffman (pianist)
Kazimierz Kord (conductor)
Adam Kopyciński (conductor)
Abel Korzeniowski (film music composer)
Waldemar Maciszewski (pianist)
Władysława Markiewiczówna (pianist)
Elżbieta Szmytka (soprano)
Wacław Kiełtyka (accordionist, guitarist)