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Lukaszewski, Marcin (b. November 20, 1972, Czestochowa). Polish composer of mostly choral, vocal and piano works that have been performed in Europe and elsewhere; he is also active as a musicologist and pianist.
Mr. Lukaszewski is the son of the composer Wojciech Lukaszewski (b. 1936 – d. 1978). He is primarily self-taught as a composer, but has had private lessons with Marian Borkowski and his brother Pawel Lukaszewski. He studied flute with Bogumila Tecza and piano with Zofia Miller at the High School of Music in Czestochowa from 1985-91. He also studied flute with Elzbieta Dastych-Szwarc at the Frédéric Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw from 1989-91, where he also studied piano with Jan Ekier, Bronislawa Kawalla and Edward Wolanin from 1991-96 and with Szabolcs Esztényi from 1996-98. There he received diplomas in piano in 1998 and music theory in 2000.
His honors include Second Prize (no First Prize was awarded) in the Feliks Nowowiejski competition in Warsaw (1996, for Prologue and Fugue), the award Fryderyk 2002 (2003, for the CD Piotr Perkowski – Piano Works) and the honor Mater Verbi (2003, for his writings on sacred music). He has also received grants from numerous organizations, including ZAiKS, the society of authors and composers (2003). His music has been performed in Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Poland, Romania, and the USA.
As a pianist, he has performed his own works, as well as those by Johannes Brahms and Frédéric Chopin, throughout Poland. As a musicologist, he has written more than 200 articles about Polish music of the 19th and 20th centuries, including a book about his father, Zycie i twórczosc – His Life and Compositions (WSP Editions, 1997). He has also written contributions to numerous Polish reference books, including the forthcoming Slownikiem Kompozytorzy Polscy 1918-2000 – Dictionary of Polish Composers from 1918-2000 (edited by Marek Podhajski).
Mr. Lukaszewski is also active in other positions. He served as accompanist, co-répétiteur and secretary of the Stefan Wyszynski University Choir in Warsaw from 1991-2001 and as an editor of the monthly journal Muzyka21 in Warsaw from 2001-03.
He has taught musicology and piano at Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw since 1996.
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail address: mlukaszewski@poczta.onet.pl
Street address: Mr. Marcin Lukaszewski, ul. Plac Hallera 9, M. 63, 03-464 Warsaw, Poland
COMPLETE LIST OF WORKS
ORCHESTRAL: Fantasy, piano, small orchestra, 1989
CHAMBER MUSIC: Neoclassical Sonata, flute, piano, 2001
CHORAL: Three Sacred Works, 1993-95 (each of its sections may be performed separately: Agnus Dei, mixed chorus, 1993; Tantum ergo, mixed chorus, 1993; Pater noster, 2 mixed choruses, 1995); Two Motets to the Virgin Mary, mixed chorus, 1995-96 (each of its sections may be performed separately: Sancta Maria, 1995; Sub tuum praesidium, 1996); Two Christmas Carols (texts by Katarzyna Kozlowska, traditional sources), mixed chorus, 1996 (each of its sections may be performed separately: Narodzil sie Jezus Chrystus; Ziemio nieszczesna); Beloved Warsaw (text by Jan Lechon), mixed chorus, 1996; In manus tuas, mixed chorus, organ, 1996; Hymnus de Spiritu Sancto (text from the hymn Veni Creator Spiritus), mixed chorus, 1997; Tre pezzi sacri, mixed chorus, 1996-99 (each of its sections may be performed separately: Parce Domine, 1996; De profundis, 1997; Ave Verum, 1999); Four Christmas Carols, female chorus, 2001; Polish Weddings at the Jasna Góra Monastery (text by Stefan Wyszynski), mixed chorus, 2002
VOCAL: Songs to the Virgin Mary, 1996-99 (each of its two sections may be performed separately: Inviolata, soprano, organ, 1996; Ave Maria, soprano, piano, 1999); Book of Proverbs (texts from Latin proverbs), voice, piano, 1999
PIANO: Études (15 studies), 1995-99; Miniatures, 1998-2003 (each of its two sections may be performed separately: Variations, 1998; Momenti espressioni, 2003); Sonata I, 1998-2003; Sonata II, 'Megasonata', 2003
ORGAN: Prologue and Fugue, 1992; Suite in Honor of the Birth of Christ, 1999; 24 Preludes, 2000; Miniatures, 1989-2001 (each of its three sections may be performed separately: Mother of God, 1989; Three Études, 1992; Patience, 2001)
DISCOGRAPHY (as pianist)
XXth Century Polish Piano Music (Grazyna Bacewicz, Marian Sawa, Jan Fotek, Wojciech Lukaszewski, Kazimierz Serocki, Marian Borkowski). (Acte Préalable: AP 0016, 1999)
Franciszek Lessel – Piano Works. (Acte Préalable: AP 0024-26, 1999)
Piotr Perkowski – Piano Works. (Acte Préalable: AP 0072, 2002)
(Last updated on March 8, 2004)
