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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

2024-05-25

2024-05-25 - Zosia and Michał are laureates of the competition in Katowice

In the Academic Instrumental Miniatures Competition, Zosia takes 3rd place, while Michał takes 2nd place in their age categories.

2024-05-20

2024-05-20 - Success of students of my class in the OPUS 2024 competition

Gosia Cieszko - GRAND PRIX, Dominik Marszałek and Wiktoria Budzińska - First prize, Zosia Frączek - Second prize, Emilia Ciupek - Third prize

2024-05-07

2024-05-05 - Gosia is among the best oboists in the world

A first-year student in my class qualified for the prestigious 73th ARD Music Competition

2024-04-19

2024-04-18 - Michał Pasierbek

Michał is the winner of the "Young Poland" scholarship program for 2024

2024-04-19

2024-03-14 - Alex wins 2nd place in the competition

Aliaksandr Malej wins 2nd prize in the Świętokrzyskie Festival of Wind Instrument Classes in Kielce

2024-01-20

2024-01-20 - Gosia wins the Silver Medal in Budapest

In the International Virtuoso V4 Music Competition, which took place in Budapest, Gosia wins the Silver Medal.

2023-10-25

2023-10-25 - Michał Pasierbek receives the Minister's Scholarship

Four students of Karłowicz Music School in Katowice receives a Scholarship from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage

2023-10-12

2023-10-12 - I received a distinction

At the request of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, I was awarded the Silver Cross of Merit

2023-08-18

2023-08-18 - Summer oboe and bassoon workshops

On August 14-18, summer music workshops took place in the Palace in Rybna.

2023-05-08

2023-05-08 - Minister's scholarship for Gosia

Gosia Cieszko receives a scholarship from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage

Awards

May 2024

Zofia Frączek

3rd place
Academic Instrumental Miniatures Competition
KATOWICE

May 2024

Michał Pasierbek

2nd place
Academic Instrumental Miniatures Competition
KATOWICE

May 2024

Dominik Marszałek

Soloist
W.A. Mozart - Oboe Concerto in C major
Afidare Musicae Symphony Orchestra
director Paweł Lelek
Castle Museum in Pszczyna

May 2024

Małgorzata Cieszko

GRAND PRIX
International Music Competition OPUS 2024
Cracow / POLAND

May 2024

Dominik Marszałek

1st prize
International Music Competition OPUS 2024
Cracow / POLAND

May 2024

Wiktoria Budzińska

1st prize
International Music Competition OPUS 2024
Cracow / POLAND

May 2024

Zofia Frączek

2nd prize
International Music Competition OPUS 2024
Cracow / POLAND

May 2024

Emilia Ciupek

3rd prize
International Music Competition OPUS 2024
Cracow / POLAND

May 2024

Małgorzata Cieszko

distinction
7th International Academic Competition for Oboists and Bassoonists in Łódź

May 2024

Małgorzata Cieszko

Qualifying for the prestigious
73rd ARD 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)

Gallery

Gosia at Virtuosos Talent Show - December 2023

Instrumental workshops in Katowice - 12.2023

Instrumental workshops in Wadowice - 12.2023

Albrecht Mayer concert in Kraków - 10.2023

CEA National Music Competition - May 2023

Alicja receives the Primus Inter Pares medal - 10.2022

Alicja in Silesian Philharmonic - 05.2022

Gosia - Competition finale in Warsaw - 05.2022

Recital - Konferencja - Kraków - 10.2021

Marin Alsop, NOSPR, Piotr Pyc, Skrowaczewski - February 2021

Gosia Cieszko takes 1st place in Kielce - March 2020

J.S. Bach - Double Concerto - Adam Mokrus, Academic Baroque Orchestra and Me - January 2020

Michał Pasierbek and Małgorzata Cieszko - 1st and 2nd place in Krakow - January 2020

Charles Ditua in PRNSO - Katowice - October 2019

Michał Pasierbek - 1st National Oboe Competition in Cracow - April 2019

Gordon Hunt / Michał Pasierbek - Oboe Conference - February 2019

ordon Hunt / Emil Trepka - Oboe Conference - February 2019

ordon Hunt / Barbara Kamińska - Oboe Conference - February 2019

Dominik Wollenweber - oboe classes - February 2019

Michał Pasierbek - Yound Soloist Competition in Jaworzno - november 2018

The 7th International Oboj Conference in Katowice

International Music Competition in Dąbrowa - Alicja Matuszczyk took 2nd prize - september 2017