The Institution for the Promotion and Dissemination of Music "Silesia" invites you to the next concert of the "Vivat Academia!" series of meetings with outstanding artists and professors of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. The concert will take place on 30 May 2019 at 6.00 p.m. at the Archdiocese Museum in Katowice (16 Wita Stwosza street).
The guest of the May meeting and concert at the Archdiocesan Museum will be Professor Jan Wincenty Hawel, who held the office of the rector of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music for 12 years. This musical evening as part of the "Vivat Academia" cycle will be an opportunity to recall its versatile and valued artistic activity related from the beginning to his alma mater. He graduated from the State High School of Music in Katowice with three diplomas: of the Department of Music Education (1960), Composition (1964, as a student of Bolesław Szabelski), and Conducting (1967, in the class of Karol Stryja). Immediately after finishing his musical education, he became a lecturer, led composition and conducting classes, served as the head of the Department of Composition and Music Theory and Research Team ("Music in Silesia – aspects, trends, activities, people"), and from 1975 managed the Academic Symphony Orchestra. In 1981, on his initiative and under his artistic direction, the Silesian Chamber Orchestra was formed, with whom he gave concerts in Poland and abroad.
Meeting at the Archdiocesan Museum will also be an opportunity to talk about Professor's ouvre. The programme of the concert will include selected works by Jan Wincenty Hawel performed by eminent artists and current pedagogues of the Katowice Academy of Music, Krzysztof Lasoń and Piotr Sałajczyk.
Admission free!.
Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.
Full programme available at: https://www.silesia.art.pl/strona-glowna/koncerty/407_vivat-academia-koncert-i-spotkaniebrz-prof-janem-wincentym-hawelem