Lecture „Roman Statkowski as a source of inspiration“ mit Jakub Stankiewicz (Karol Lipinski Academy of Music Wrocław)

Termine:
Di, 5. November 2024, 10:00―13:00 Uhr: Masterclass Komposition (BRA 1.31)
Mi, 6. November 2024, 11:30―13:00 Uhr: Masterclass Korrepetition (BRA 1.31)
Mi, 6. November 2024, 14:00―17:00 Uhr: Masterclass Klavier (BRA K 1.31)
Do, 7. November 2024, 11:00―13:00 Uhr: Vortrag (JOH 4.15)
Do, 7. November 2024, 14:00―15:40 Uhr: Jazz Composers Ensemble (BRA K.10)

Lecture Roman Statkowski as a source of inspiration for Polish composers Victor Young, Bronisław Kaper and Henryk Wars in the context of Hollywood film and jazz music

Roman Statkowski studied composition in Warsaw with Władysław Żeleński and instrumentation in St. Petersburg with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. As professor of composition at the Warsaw Conservatory his students included Victor Young and Henryk Wars who both made careers in Hollywood as film composers; Victor Young also composed several songs that became important standards of jazz music.
A comparative analysis of the music from Maria — Roman Statkowski's opera and scores from Victor Young's films Shane and Rio Grande as well as Henryk Wars Piano Concerto (1950) leads to the conclusion that Roman Statkowski had a significant impact on the shaping of his students' artistic personality, especially in the field of harmony and instrumentation.

Jazz pianist and arranger Jakub „Kuba“ Stankiewicz who enjoys a significant international concert career and has a number of notable recordings to his name. Stankiewicz embraced American jazz and decided to pursue studies at the renowned Berklee College of Music in Boston, graduating in 1990 with a diploma in piano performance. A laureate of the prestigious Oscar Peterson Award and a finalist in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition in Washington DC, Kuba Stankiewicz toured the United States with the world-famous Artie Shaw Orchestra in the early 1990s. After returning to Poland, he recorded the CD album Northern Song, which was voted the best Polish jazz recording of 1993 by Jazz Forum Magazine. In over two decades of concretizing and studio work, Stankiewicz has performed with such great artists as Art Farmer, Scott Hamilton, Sheila Jordan and Harvie Swartz, in addition to a wide variety of legendary Polish jazz musicians, including Darek Oleszkiewicz, Piotr Baron and others. Since 2020 Kuba Stankiewicz has held the title of Professor Doctor Habilitated in Music Art. He is employed as a Professor at the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław and also the Head of the Chair of Jazz Music.