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 Gabriel Chmura, Christian Eschenbach, Jacek Kaspszyk, Lorin Maazel, Jerzy Maksymiuk, Jerzy Samkow, Krzysztof Penderecki, Antoni Wit.

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. He conducted many oboe courses and was jury member in music competitions around the country. He is a university teacher at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, where – as a result of receiving the degree of Doctor of Arts – he became an assistant professor in 2008. His students and pupils win laurels at many competitions both in Poland and abroad.