The Department started its activities in 2019 on the initiative of the research and teaching staff of woodwind instruments such as flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and saxophone. Its first head was saxophonist dr Rafał Rachwał. Currently the Department is headed by flutist prof. dr hab. Ewa Murawska.

The present-day image of the Department is the result of work of several generations of eminent musicians associated with the Poznań music community. Since 1958 the directions of the Department’s development have been set by its successive heads: clarinetist Professor Józef Madeja, flutist Associate Professor Franciszek Langner, oboist Professor Mieczysław Koczorowski, clarinetist Professor Zdzisław Nowak, and trumpeter Professor Roman Gryń.

The Department of Woodwind Instruments can pride itself on organizing many periodic artistic and academic projects, which are recognized both nationally and internationally. The most significant festivals include “Colors of Wind Instruments”, “Bassoonist’s Lab”, “Poznań SaxEvent”, “Poznań Clarinet Spring”, and the Eugeniusz Towarnicki International Flute Competition. Moreover, the Department actively participates in the European Union educational mobility program Erasmus+ and acquires financial grants for cultural and academic activities from Norwegian Funds.

Every year the Department organizes numerous masterclasses, inviting the most outstanding musicians from all over the world. In recent years the following artists have presented their artistry: flutists: Patrick Gallois, Raphael Leone; oboists: Christoph Hartmann, Marino Bedetti; clarinetists: Florent Heau, Julian Bliss; bassoonists: Jarosław Augustyniak, Sebastian Stevensson; and saxophonists: Vincent David, Sergey Kolesov.

 

Members of the Department of Woodwind Instruments:

Flute

prof. dr hab. Ewa Murawska – Head

dr Ewa Mizerska

prof. dr hab. Andrzej Łęgowski  (collaborator)

 

Oboe

prof. dr hab. Tomasz Gubański

dr Łukasz Krzemiński

 

Clarinet

prof. dr hab. Paweł Drobnik

dr Jakub Drygas

dr Paweł Kroczek

 

Bassoon

dr hab. Arkadiusz Adamczyk

mgr Krzysztof Zabłocki

mgr Kristian Oma Rønnes

 

Saxophone

dr hab. Magdalena Jakubska-Szymiec

dr Rafał Rachwał

 

Piano

dr hab. Joanna Balewska

dr Hanna Lizinkiewicz

dr Maria Rutkowska

mgr Renata Pabich

mgr Mateusz Kowalski

mgr Agnieszka Karpińska

mgr Yang Xu-Czaja