Witold Szalonek (1927–2001)

Curriculum vitae:
 

02.03.1927 / Witold Szalonek was born in Czechowice-Dziedzice (Poland/Silesia)

1939–1945 / piano lessons at the private Conservatorium in Bytom

1945–1949 / Music grammar school in Katowice

1949 / A-levels at the music grammar school in Katowice

1949–1956 / Student at the State Music Academy in Katowice

1962–1963 / Composition studies in Paris

1967 / Composition teacher at the State Music Academy in Katowice

From 1970 / Seminars and courses in composition techniques at universities in Denmark, Germany, Finland, Poland and Slovakia

1970–1971 / DAAD grant in Berlin

1970–1974 / Head of the department of music theory and composition at the State Music Academy in Katowice

1973–1992 / Professor of Composition at the Academy of the Arts in Berlin (until his retirement)

12.10.2001 / Witold Szalonek dies in Berlin

Important awards:
 

1952 / Second prize in the Polish Composers’ Union competition for “Pastorale” (Oboe and Piano)

1964 / The Music Prize of the city of Katowice

1966 / Third prize in the Artur-Malawski Composers’ competition for “Quattro monologhi per oboe solo”

1967 / The Prize of the Ministry of Culture and Art

1968 / Second prize at the Artur Malawski Composers’ competition for “Mutazioni”

1990 / An honorary doctorate (doctor honoris causa) from the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster

1994 / The prize of the Polish Composers’ Union

1999 / “The Silesian Culture Prize” awarded by the state of Lower Saxony