oboe
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He began his music education at the age of three at the Experimental Music Studio in Cracow. He studied in the oboe class of Edward Szcześniak; he also participated in a masterclass run by Lothar Koch. In 1977, he went on his first US concert tour with a group of students of the State Higher Music School in Cracow (now the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music). He has received the Grand Prix of the Confrontations of Art School Students.
He performs as a soloist, playing with excellent conductors and orchestras. The oboist is regularly invited to the Warsaw Autumn festival. He has recorded theatre and film music and performed in theatre plays. He used to be a concertmaster of the Cracow Philharmonic Orchestra. The artist has participated in international and European projects – Bridges and Ensamble Spiel. He took part in the German and Austrian tour of Nigel Kennedy and the Berliner Philharmoniker and in the Bach meets Ellington project, as part of which he played with Nigel Kennedy and his Orchestra of Life.
Mariusz Pędziałek’s achievements include numerous archival recordings for Polish Radio, appearances in television programmes and CD recordings. He received a nomination for the Fryderyk 2001 award for the recording of the Concerto for oboe and harp by Witold Lutosławski with harpist Anna Sikorzak-Olek. The artist recorded the album 20th-Century Polish Music for Oboe and Piano with pianist Renata Żełobowska-Orzechowska. He also registered Sinfonietta No. 2 by Krzysztof Penderecki and Lamento by Joanna Wnuk-Nazarowa on an album published by the Polish Chamber Philharmonic.
Member of the ‘Muzyka Centrum’ Art Association, the Polish Society for Electroacoustic Music and the Witold Lutosławski Society. He used to be a lecturer at the International Academy for New Composition and Audio-Art Avantgarde Tirol in Seefeld. Decorated with the Gold Cross of Merit and the Gloria Artis Medal for Merit to Culture, the Cracow badge Honoris Gratia and the Polonia Minor medal of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship.