Aleksander Lasoń

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Aleksander Lasoń (born 10 November 1951) is a Polish composer and teacher. He was born in Siemianowice Śląskie. Lasoń studied at the Faculty of Jazz and Popular Music, the National Higher School of Music in Katowice, in 1970-74, and continued his education in Jozef Świder's composition class, graduating with distinction in 1979. A laureate of the 4th Piano Improvisation Competition in 1972, Lasoń won the second prize at the 1975 Grzegorz Fitelberg Composition Competition for his Symphony No. 1 for wind instruments, percussion and two pianos, composed the same year; was awarded a prize at the 1978 Piano Competition accompanying the Stalowa Wola Young Musicians for a Young Town Festival; won the second prize at the 1980 Young Competition of the Association of Polish Composers for his piece Mountains for symphony orchestra, composed in 1979-80, as well as the 1980 City of Bonn Beethoven Prize for Symphony No. 2 (The Concerting Symphony) for piano and orchestra, composed in 1977-9. UNESCO's International Tribune of Composers in Paris awarded Lasoń the first prize in the works by young composers category for his Symphony No. 1, and distinguished him, respectively, in 1988 and 1997, for the String Quartet No. 2 from 1987 and for Concerto Festivo for violin nad orchestra composed in 1993-1995. Lasoń's composition output earned him also the Silesian Polyhymnia Award in 1985, the Stanisław Wyspiański Artistic Award in 1986, the Exclusiv Award of the Tonos Music Publishers in Darmstad

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Polish Collection of the Warsaw Autumn 1956-2005

Polish Collection of the Warsaw Autumn 1956-2005: Generation 1951+

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Warsaw Autumn 2007 [07]

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warsaw autumn - generation 1951

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Nieznany album (2009-01-28 20:40:03)

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Polish String Quartets

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NeoQuartet

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Bacewicz Bujarski Górecki Lasoń Łukaszewski

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I Symfonia

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Andrzej Krzanowski in memoriam

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Polish Collection of the Warsaw Autumn 1956-2005: CD-04 Pocolenie 1951+

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Muyzka kameralna nr 5: Cztery pory roku

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