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Hello and welcome !!!

Hello and welcome !!!
You have reached the website where I post information not only about me, but above all where I will share with you cultural life seen from the perspective of an instrumentalist of the NOSPR and a teacher of the Academy of Music in Katowice.
 
In the news section you will find the latest information about the latest, most important events for me and the projects I am currently working on. I also encourage you to follow my profile on Facebook.
 
I invite you to check out my recordings, gallery, achievements of my students and lectures on oboe issues. I hope to expand this website with new useful information in the future.
 
I also invite you to my concerts, both solo and chamber ones, as well as as a NOSPR musician, information about these events can be found in the NEWS
 
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About me

Piotr Pyc – oboe / cor anglais. He graduated from the Academy of Music in Kraków, where he was in Professor Jerzy Kotyczka's class, with distinction. Then he started to work as first oboe in the Silesian Philharmonic in Katowice. Since the 2004, he has been an oboist and a soloist (cor anglais) of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice..

As an orchestral musician he took part in over 1500 concerts, working with many ensembles – The Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra, the Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra, the Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Sopot and Sinfonietta Cracovia to name a few. He performed under the baton of such maestro conductors as Marin Alsop, Lawrence Foster, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Charles Dutoit, Simone Young, Gabriel Chmura, Christian Eschenbach, Lorin Maazel, Jerzy Semkow, Krzysztof Penderecki.

He is very active in soloist and chamber ensemble fields. He took part in numerous music festivals, including Nordsee and Schwetzinger Festspiele in Germany, as well as Warszawska Jesień (Warsaw Autumn). As a soloist, he recorded a concert by Stanisław Skrowaczewski for Medici.tv.

Teaching is an important part of his work. Piotr Pyc is also associated with the Academy of Music in Katowice, where he works as a university professor, teaching the oboe class. His students win laurels at national and international competitions. He lectures master classes and serves on the jury of many competitions dedicated to wind instruments. From 2021, consultant of the Artistic Education Center and expert of the Ministry of National Education and Science. In 2023, he was awarded the rank of professor of art. and was awarded the Silver Cross of Merit by the President of the Republic of Poland.

News

Awards

March 2024
Aliaksandr Malei
2nd prize
więtokrzyski Festival of Wind Instrument Classes - Kielce
January 2024
Małgorzata Cieszko
Silver Medal
Virtuoso V4 International Music Competition - Budapest
January 2024
Michał Pasierbek
3rd place
11th National Competition of Contemporary Children's and Youth Music - Srebrna Szybka in Krakow
December 2023
Michał Pasierbek
distinction - National Bassoon and Oboe Festival named after Wiktoria Osadzin and Edward Mandera
October 2023
Piotr Pyc
Decoration - Silver Cross of Merit
October 2023
Michał Pasierbek
Scholarship - Minister of Culture and National Heritage
June 2023
Michał Pasierbek
Distinction - 6th National Oboe and Bassoon Competition in Legnica
May 2022
Małgorzata Cieszko
Scholarship - Minister of Culture and National Heritage
May 2023
Małgorzata Cieszko
1st prize
OPUS 2023 International Music Competition
May 2023
Michał Pasierbek
1st prize
OPUS 2023 International Music Competition

Recordings

Antonio Vivaldi - Concerto in G major (P.129) - 3rd movement
Antonio Vivaldi - Concerto in G major (P.129) - 2nd movement
Antonio Vivaldi - Concerto in G major (P.129) - 1st. movement
Stanisław Skrowaczewski - Concerto for English Horn and Orchestra
Manuel de Falla - Czarodziejska miłość (Love the Magican)
English horn - short presentation
J. S. Bach Concerto for oboe and violin in D minor BWV 1060 - Allegro (3rd part)
J. S. Bach Concerto for oboe and violin in D minor BWV 1060 - Adagio (2nd part)
J. S. Bach Concerto for oboe and violin in D minor BWV 1060 - Allegro (1 part)
Pavel Haas - Suita for oboe and piano (1939)