Adamowski Juliusz - Towarzystwo Ferenca Liszta we Wrocławiu
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Adamowski Juliusz

Juliusz Adamowski - pianist, teacher, speaker and music activist - graduate of the Karol Lipinski Academy of Music  in Wrocław (after studying piano under the direction of Professor Włodzimierz Obidowicz). For 42 years (1960-2002) he combined his almost 70-year artistic activity, focused mainly on popularizing music, with teaching in several areas at his alma mater.

 

His artistic achievements include nearly 250 piano recitals and half-recitals, several thousand musical concerts, and authorship or co-authorship of several hundred word and music programs in which he participated as a pianist and speaker (six of them were presented at the International Chopin Festivals in DusznikiZdrój). As a pianist, he also appeared in Polish Radio and TV programs.

 

He is the author of, among others, the textbook "Playing a vista on a piano" and a dozen or so extensive studies in the field of didactics and music journalism as well as documentation of musical life in Lower Silesia. He was a juror of international and national piano competitions.

 

He initiated and organized 46 piano courses and competitions. He has a significant achievements in the field of about 65-year-long social activity (among others in The Association of Polish Artists Musicians, the Trade Union of Culture and Art Workers, the Lower Silesian Music Society and the home Academy of Music).

 

He is a co-initiator of the establishment in 1989 of the Ferenc LisztSociety, where he has been pro bono president for 34 years, organizing and conducting free-of-charge concert activities of the Society (in which, among others, 401 pianists from 33 countries took part). In the years 1990-2020, he also performed on a complimentary basisabout 550 piano tunings before TiFL concerts (he is an expert in the field of grandpianos and upright pianos).


He received high Polish state decorations (including the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, the Medal of the National Education Commission, the Wrocław Music Award Medal, the Gloria Artis Medal for Merit to Culture, and the Hungarian authorities honored him with the "Pro Cultura Hungarica" Medal.


  •  Juliusz Adamowski
    Juliusz Adamowski