Peter Paul Koprowski

Peter Paul Koprowski (Piotr Paweł Koprowski, born August 24, 1947 in Łódź ) is a Canadian composer, pianist, conductor and music teacher of Polish descent.

Koprowski studied from 1966 to 1969 at the State Academy of Music in Krakow at Bolesław Woytowicz and headed here an ensemble for new music. From 1969 to 1971 he continued his studies with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. In 1971 he emigrated to Canada and started a PhD degree in composition with John Weinzweig at the University of Toronto. In 1973 he was Assistant Professor at McGill University in Montreal, since 1974 he has taught at the University of Western Ontario. In 1981 he was composer in residence at the Leighton Artists' Colony, the Banff Centre for the Arts and 1988-89 of the Canadian Opera Company (COC ).

Koprowski became known for his orchestral works as In Memoriam Karol Szymanowski (1963). For the COC, he composed the one-act opera Dulcitius, which premiered in 1989. His Letters for mezzo- soprano, violin, clarinet and piano was premiered by Laura Pudwell 1984, Rivka Golani for 1995 he composed a concerto for viola and Eric Schulz 1998, a trumpet concerto. His Millennium Cantata was performed in 2001 by the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra and the Ottawa Choral Society, the symphonic works of Behind the Iron Curtain in 2005 by the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra under Andrey Boreyko. Twice awarded the Jules Léger Prize Koprowski: 1989 for the Sonnet for Laura and 1994 for his Woodwind Quintet. His Viola Concerto was awarded the National Music Award of the Chalmers Fund and nominated for a Juno Award ( 2002). He was awarded the Order of Polonia Restituta 2005, 2009, he was awarded the National Arts Centre Award for Canadian composers.

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  • The Canadian Encyclopedia - Peter Paul Koprowski ( 1)
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  • Polish Music Newsletter - August 2007, Vol 13, No. 8 - SZYMANOWSKI YEAR
  • Culture.pl - Paweł Piotr (Peter Paul ) Koprowski
  • Man
  • Born in 1947
  • Person ( Łódź)
  • Polish composer
  • Canadian Composer
  • Classic pianist
  • Conductor
  • Music teacher
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