Marian Borkowski

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Borkowski, Marian (b. 1934, Pabianice). Polish composer of mostly orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal, and piano works that have been performed throughout the world. Prof. Borkowski studied composition with Kazimierz Sikorski and piano with Jan Ekier and Natalia Hornowska at the Frédéric Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw from 1959-65, where he earned his MA in both subjects. He also studied musicology with Józef M. Chominski at Warsaw University from 1959-66 and there earned an additional MA. He then studied composition with Nadia Boulanger and Olivier Messiaen at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris from 1966-68 and musicology with Barry S. Brook and Jacques Chailley at the Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne from 1966-68, both on a grant from the government of France. He later attended Darmstadt in 1972 and 1974, as well as courses with Franco Donatoni at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena in 1973 and 1975, where he earned a Diploma di Merito, and with Iannis Xenakis at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. His honors include Second Prize in the young composers competition in Warsaw (1966, for Dram), a prize in the G.B. Viotti competition in Vercelli (1969, for Toccata) and Third Prize in the Karol Szymanowski competition in Warsaw (1974, for Acclamations). He has also received three awards of the Minister of Culture and Art (1976, 1980, 1982), the Silver Cross of Merit in Poland (1977), Silver Medal in the Premio Vittorio Gui in Florence (1979), a

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Prayer

Borkowski: Choral Works

Piotr Borkowski Conducts Marian Borkowski

Marian Borkowski: Complete Works for Solo Piano

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Zdzislaw Piernik Tuba 1 (AGP146

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Zdzislaw Piernik Tuba 2 (AGP147)

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Symphonic and Sacred Music

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Solos And Duets

Chór Akademii Teologii Katolickiej

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Tuba

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Zdzisław Piernik (LP Polskie Nagrania)

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Zdzislaw Piernik Tuba 1 (AGP146)

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