2019 IPPEC Examiner

Dr. Sławomir Dobrzański

Kansas State University
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Sławomir Dobrzański frequently performs a soloist and chamber musician Europe, South America, China, and throughout the United States. As a soloist, he performed with such orchestras as the National Philharmonic in Warsaw, Poland, the ¡§Leopoldinum¡¨ Chamber Orchestra, ¡§Connecticut Virtuosi¡¨ Chamber Orchestra, ¡§Amadeus¡¨ Orchestra, Lincoln (NE) Symphony Orchestra, and the Frederic Chopin Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra.

He participated in the "Mozart Festival" in Poznań, Poland, "Chopin Festival" in Antonin, Poland, "Warsaw Autumn¡¨ Contemporary Music Festival, Festival of Polish Pianists in Słupsk, Poland, ¡§Chopiniana¡¨ Festival in Buenos Aires, Argentina, ¡§Music Gettysburg!¡¨ Festival in Gettysburg, American Liszt Society National Festival, in Lincoln, NE, Chopin Festival in Miami, FL, Karol Szymanowski Festival in Beijing, China, and The World Piano Teachers Conference in Novi Sad, Serbia.

He is a graduate of the Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, Poland and the University of Connecticut, where he received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree of in 2001. In 2013, 2016 and in 2018, the London-based label Acte Prealable released Dr. Dobrzański¡¦s world-premiere CD recordings of piano music by Maria Szymanowska (1789-1831) and Anton de Kontski (1817-1899).

Dr. Dobrzański is also very active nationally and internationally as a pedagogue, lecturer, clinician and adjudicator. He was a member of music faculties at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota and the University of Rhode Island. Currently he serves as Professor of Music at the School of Music. Theatre and Dance at Kansas State University, where he teaches piano performance, chamber music and piano literature. In 2017, Dr. Dobrzański was honored with the title of ¡§Meritorious for National Culture¡¨ by the Government of Poland.