Paweł Łukaszewski, Poland
Paweł Łukaszewski (Poland) Born in Częstochowa in 1968, he is a graduate of the Fryderyk Chopin
Music Academy in Warsaw, where he studied the cello (with Andrzej Wróbel, diploma in 1992) and
composition (with Marian Borkowski, a diploma with distinction in 1995). He has been on the faculty
of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music since
1996. In 2000 he gained his Ph.D. in composition
and in 2006 he received a postdoctoral degree. He has
received numerous commissions from Poland and
abroad (Japan, Germany, Great Britain, Switzerland)
and has held many grants, including those from
the Częstochowa Town Council (1991–1992), the
Professor Bogdan Suchodolski Foundation (1995), the
ZAiKS Authors’ and Composers’ Association (1996),
the Arts Promotion Fund of the Ministry of Culture
(several times) and the President of Warsaw (2010).
His honours include an hono urable mention at the
Tadeusz Baird Composers’ Competition (1994), First
Prize at the Warsaw Music Academy Competition
(1994), Second Prize at the 2nd Young Composers’
Forum in Kraków (1994), and Second Prize at the 27th
International ‘Florilege Vocal de Tours’ Competition
in France (1998). He won the ‘Fryderyk’ Awards of the
Polish Phonographic Academy (Artist of the Year in 2013), the Award of the town of St Quentin (for the best
performance of a contemporary work) at the Concours
Europeen de Choeurs et Maitrises de Cathedrales (2006). He has received the Commander’s Cross of
the Order of Polonia Restituta (1998), the award of the
Mayor of Częstochowa for outstanding compositional
achievements (1995), the Saint Brother Albert
Chmielowski Award for outstanding achievements
in composition, conducting and organization of
musical life (2006), the Gloria Artis Medal of Merit
for Culture (2011) and the Award from the Primate
of Poland (2011).
His works have been performed
at over 100 festivals in Poland and abroad (Great
Britain, Argentina, Belarus, Belgium, Chile, China,
Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Spain, Germany,
Iceland, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta,
Monaco, Moldova, Peru, Romania, Russia, South
Korea, Switzerland, Ukraine, Uruguay, the Vatican
and the United States). His discography includes over
100 CDs. Over sixty of his pieces have been published
in many countries of Europe and the United States. He
has served as the Director of the International Festival
‘Laboratory of Contemporary Music’ (since 1995) and
as President of the Musica Sacra Association (since
2000). He has sat on the juries of the composers’
competitions in Italy, Russia and Romania. In recent
years Paweł Łukaszewski’s music has gained a high
recognition in Britain. His works have been performed
(and some premiered) by such renowned choral
ensembles from London and Cambridge as The Holst
Singers, BBC Singers, Trinity College Choir, Tenebrae,
Britten Sinfonia and Polyphony under the direction of
prominent conductors Stephen Layton and Nigel Short.