Sławomir Dobrzański has been a member of the Kansas State University music faculty since 2005 as artist/teacher of piano. He is a graduate of the prestigious Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, Poland where he was a student of Regina Smendzianka and Andrzej Dutkiewicz. He has also studied at the University of Kansas with Jack Winerock, and the Lucerne Conservatory in Switzerland (under Malcolm Frager and Mieczysław Horszowski). In May of 2001, Dobrzański completed the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano performance at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT, where he studied piano performance with Neal Larrabee and Zelma Bodzin.
Dr. Dobrzański comes to KSU from the University of Rhode Island in Kingston where he served as Guest Artist/Teacher of Piano. Prior to his work at URI, he taught piano at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. Dobrzański’s recent solo appearances in the U.S. include concerts in New York City, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Corpus Christi, Miami, and West Palm Beach. His overseas activities have taken him to Peru, Paraguay, Germany, Belgium, Poland, Lithuania, Ecuador, China, and Italy. He has recorded solo and chamber music by Lutosławski, Szymanowski, Chopin, Kisielewski, Malawski, Rybicki, Tausig, and Brahms for Polish Radio and Television in Warsaw, Poland.
He is a member of the “Atma” piano trio, along with cellist Cheung Chau and violinist Blanka Bednarz. The ensemble regularly tours Europe and the US.
His research interests are on the early romantic composer and pianist Maria Szymanowska. His biography/musicological study of the early 19th century Polish pianist-composer Maria Szymanowska is currently available at http://www.usc.edu/dept/polish_music/pmhsbooks/historyser.html and on amazon.com.
