Sławomir Czarnecki

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Sławomir Czarnecki, composer and music tutor, b. 23rd July 1949 in Jelenia Góra. He studied composition with Piotr Perkowski and Romuald Twardowski in the State Higher School of Music in Warsaw (master’s degree in 1974), then in 1980-81 with Olivier Messiaen in Paris (thanks to a French government scholarship). Since 1974, he has taught theory in Józef Elsner State Secondary Music School in Warsaw. He has received numerous awards and honourable mentions in competitions for composers, incl. in 1973 - 1st prize in a competition for didactic works for Piano Concerto for Young People No.1 op. 6 (1973), in 1975 – 2nd prize in the Composer Competition of the 9th Festival of Polish Piano Art in Słupsk for Concertino per pianoforte e orchestra op. 9 (1975), in 1976 – 1st prize in the Young Composers’ Competition of the Polish Composers’ Union for Gradito per orchestra op. 12 (1976), in 1980 - an honourable mention in the 19th Concorso Internazionale di Composizione “Premio Cittá di Trieste” for Concerto pesante per tuba e orchestra op. 14 (1978), in the same year - Darmstadt City Award in the Chopin-Gesellschaft Competition for Symphonia concertante per pianoforte e orchestra op. 16 (1979), twice the 1st price in the Competition of the Warsaw Section of the Polish Composers’ Union - in 1982 for Intrada, Elegy and Postlude for organ op. 19 (1982) and in 1985 – for Orpheus Songs for counter-tenor, flute, oboe and harp op. 24 (1985), in 1986 - the Bucchi Award in Rome for Five Pieces

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