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Jan £ukaszewski
is conductor, artistic director and director general of The Polish
Chamber Choir -Schola Cantorum Gedanensis-. He also conducts the boys'
and men's choir Pueri Cantores Olivenses. Besides that, he is in demand
as a guest conductor and e.g. occasionally works with the Polish Radio
Choir at Cracow and recently has spent several months guest conducting
in Spain. His main interest lies in the fields of romantic and of
contemporary music, and, especially in connection with the Polish
Chamber Choir he has gained a reputation of being able to make possible
the impossible and in a very short time prepare musically valid
interpretations of even the most complex of works. Hence the number of
premier performances directed by him is vast.
Jan Lukaszewski is a graduate of Gdansk University, yet he regards the
foundations of his present day musical successes to have been laid by
his father, Leon and his elder brother, Ireneusz. Based on their ideas,
he developed a distinctive sound. Its "instrumentality", flexibility,
and great diversity of colours never fail to impress critics all over
the world. The Polish Chamber Choir, of which for some years he had
been assistant director, he took over in 1983. |
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Nowadays he also teaches at Bydgoszcz in the Podyplomowe Studium
Dyrygenckie (postgraduate conducting course) and worldwide gives master
classes and seminars for choral conductors (in Japan, for example
[Tokyo/Nagano] or as a lecturer at the "World Symposium on Choral
Music" in Rotterdam in 1999). Taking an educational interest in amateur
singing, he often works in the juries of internationally renowned
choral contests, among others in Japan, Wales, Lithuania, Italy, and
Switzerland.In Poland, Jan Lukaszewski is regarded as one of the few
that progate the music of such composers as Schönberg, Messiaen,
Xenakis, Globokar, Takemitsu, R. Strauss, Pepping, Tippett, Ives, and
Barber. His recordings for Polish Radio, Sender Freies Berlin,
Bayrischer Rundfunk and Westdeutscher Rundfunk and for Polish
Television as well as his numerous CD-, MC-, LP- and video-recordings
reflect the quality of his work. The high artistic level of The Polish
Chamber Choir -Schola Cantorum Gedanensis- under his direction time and
again inspires composers to write works for unaccompanied choir.
Jan £ukaszewski has received countless awards. In 2000, he was given
the "Pommeranian Cultural Award" as well as the renowned
"Jerzy-Kurczewski-Award" for exceptional achievements in the field of
vocal music bestowed by a committee of internationally respected
musical authorities chaired by Krzysztof Penderecki.
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