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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

November 2024
Aleksander Malej
1st place (ex aequo)
6th Pomeranian Oboe Festival
November 2024
Michał Pasierbek
2nd PRIZE
Charleston International Music Competition (USA)
November 2024
Michał Pasierbek
1st PRIZE
7th SWISS INTERNATIONAL MUSIC COMPETITION (Szwajcaria)
October 2024
Małgorzata Cieszko
Passed exam
Young Academy of NOSPR
October 2024
Emil Trepka
Won competition for oboist position
Silesian Opera Orchestra in Bytom
October 2024
Michał Pasierbek
1st place
1st Michał Spisak Youth Music Competition in category II
October 2024
Alexander Malej
1st place
1st Michał Spisak Youth Music Competition in category I
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

Recordings

Stanisław Skrowaczewski - Concerto for English Horn and Orchestra
Manuel de Falla - Czarodziejska miłość (Love the Magican)
English horn - short presentation
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
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)