Piotr Lachert's Biography

Education

1952 - 1957 : High School of Music, Diploma of piano, Hanna Lachertowa, Warsaw
1957 - 1961 : Academy of Music, MA, Jan Ekier, Warsaw
1964 - 1965 : Master Class, Vlado Perlemuter, Paris
1966 - 1967 : Virtuosity Course, Maria Wilkomirska, Lòdê
1967 - 1968 : Hochschule für Musik, Solistenklasse, Reimar Dahlgrün, Hannover
1968 - 1969 : Conservatoire Royale Bruxelles, chamber music, Louis Poulet; conducting class, René Defossez

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Composer

Self-taught, first compositions written in 1970. Music has been performed in countless festivals and contemporary music concerts, among others:
Mixed Media Festival - Gent, 1972 - 1975,
Brugge Festival, 1975,
SEM Festival Antwerpen, 1973, 1974,
De Ijsbreker Konzerte - Rotterdam, 1973 -1985,
Gaudeamus Konzerte - Amsterdam, den Haag, Tilburg, Breda, Gronningen, Utrecht, Zwolle,
Hilversum, 1973 -1979,
Middelberg Festival, 1974, 1976,
Festival de Bourge 1976,
Goethe Institut Koncerte, Teheran, Shiraz, Edinbourgh, York, London, Brussels, 1977
Einstein Konzerte Berlin, 1977 - 1980,
Neue Musik Tage Hamburg, 1978,
ISCM Festival as representative of Belgium in Bonn, 1977, Brussels 1981
Gulbenkian Festival Lisabon, 1979
Wienner Neue Musik Woche, 1979
Festival Funchal, 1979
Edinburgh Festival, 1980,
Festival Plan Pol K, Brussel, 1981
Aspekte Salzburg, 1978, 1981
Pan Festival Soeul, 1981
Miro Festival de Barcelone, 1982,
Festival Klagenfurt, 1976, 1981,1983
New Music in Stockholm, 1983
Festiwal Europejski Krakow, 1985
Poznanska Wiosna Poznan, 1985
New Music in Mexico City, 1984, 1987
Tage für Neue Musik Stuttgart, 1988
Nuova Consonanza Roma, 1989
Nuova Musica Milano, 1989
Tempere Festival, 1990
Festival Performing Arts & Artists from Poland in Lincoln Center, New York,1995,
Festival de Santos, 1979, 1983, 1985, 1988, 1990, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2009, 2010
Laboratorium Bialystok, 1996,
Festival di Sao Paolo, 1985, 1988, 1990, 1996, 1998, 2009, 2011
Interensemble in Padova, 1995, 1996, 1997

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Merende d’Arte Pescara, 1996,1997, 1998
Rode Pomp Fsetival, Gent, 1996, 2000
Festival Kamerton in Pescara, 1997, 1988, 1999, 2000, 200, 2002, 2003
New Music in Osaka, 1997
Belgian Music in Italy, 1998
Festival Nuova Musica Consonante, Bucaresti, 1998, 1999, 2000
Festival New Music in Tirana, 2000
Slaska Jesien Gitarowa, 2002
Interferenze Festival, Teramo, 2006
Audio Art, Krakow, Warszawa,2008
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Compositions also performed in: Beijing, Rio de Janeiro, Melbourne, Madrid, Mons, Cork, Warszawa, Poznan, Katowice, Helsinki, Recklinghausen, Hannover, Pekin, Vilna, Moscow, Madrid, Kijev, Seoul, Beograd, Sarajevo, Graz, Liège, Charkov, Tokyo, Chicago, Torino, Venezia, Verona, Budapest, Frankfurt, München, Cosenza, Essen, Basel, Heidelberg, Münster, Vigo, Porto, Frankfurt, Bielefeld, Palermo, Catania, Rimini, Sassari, Katowice, Karlsruhe, Insbruck, Genève, Gdynia, Brescia, Siedlce, St. Petersburg, Verona, Lecce, Zakopane, Caltanissetta, Tokyo, Kalisz, Pforzheim, Poitiers, Limoges, Bielefeld, Taranto, Dublin, Oldenburg, Wroclaw, Sidney, Montreal, Toronto, Funchal, Kharkov, Périgeux, Montclair, New York, Bucarest, Gdansk, Osnabrück, Elk, Spoltore, Bussi, Ortona, Guardiagrele, Gioia delle Colle, Latina, Sassari, San Francisco, Bialystok, Bratyslawa, Perugia, Città di Castello, Las Vegas, Zagreb, Bydgoszcz, Bialystok, Muenchen, Cremona, Yverdon les Bains, Chioggia, Palerrmo, Civitanova Marche, Cretona, Colle San Paolo, Corciano, Belo Horizonte, Campinas, Ribeirao Preto, Tradate, Bacau, Tripoli, Helsinki, Pescara, Lanciano, Melburne, Sidney, etc.

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Over 90 compositions published by ten publishers : Andel Uitgave (Oostende), CeBeDeM (Brussels), Alain Van Kerckhoven Editeur (Brussels), TEMV! (Hoeilaart), Jobert (Paris), Baerenreiter Verlag (Kassel), Mieroprint (Münster), Chiola Music Press (Pescara), New Art (Siedlce), Consonant Music Press (Spoltore).

Compositions on several CDs and in archives of european radio stations several compositions for music theatre, for ballet, for films several volumes of piano studies (over 300)

Creator of an original computer-assisted composition system called Letter Music.

1974 - present : member of Belgian School of New Consonant Music

Some performers of Piotr Lachert's music :

Directors: André Philippe, Wojciech Michniewski, Anton Salazar, Patrick Beire, Andrea di Mele, Helmut Imig, Ulrich Fauth, Filippo Cuscito, Pieter Guralumi, Sabatino Servilio, Marco Moresco, Maurizio Colasanti, Francesco Damiani, Ovidiu Balan,

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Ensembles: Philharmonie d'Uccle, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Orchestre de la BRT, Westfalischer Philharmoniker, Kamerton Pescara, Spectra, Interensemble, Filharmonia Poznanska, The Slavic Arts Ensemble, The Waterville Trio, The Lira Singers, Jugendsinfonieorchester, Groupe Fusion, American-Dance-Center Ballet, Margot Krammer Company, Compagnie Angèle Albrecht, Ballet du XX-ème siècle, Gruppo Iliana Alvarado, TEMV!'s Trio, EKA, Orchestre de Communautées Européennes, Pescara Dance Theater, Grupa XX, Grupo di musica conteporanea, Ensemble de Dieter Salbert, Trio Phoenix, Ensor Quartet, Groupe Osiris, Collegium Brussensis, Filarmonica di Spoltore, Filarmonica di Bussi, Orchestra da Camera di Tirana, Filarmonica di Ortona, Filarmonica di Guardiagrele, Insieme Strumentale "Serafino Aquilano", Altenberg Trio Wien, The Waterville Quartet, Fiati Italiani, The Waterville Trio, Michail Bezvierkhni Trio, Lachert Kwartet, Musicarchetipi, Filharmonica di Teramo, Duo Gastesi-Bezerra, Ensemble 900, groupe Osiris, Walasek Kwartet, Trio Talweg, Duo Maclé, orchestra Michail Jora,

 

Pianists: Mireille Gleizes, Eugenia Zurek, Galina Markova, Justyna Philipp, Annette Sachs, Danusia Oslizlok, Suzanne Paul, Friederike Ernst, Michael Frohnmeyer, Valentina Chiola, Sergio Mascarà, Anthony de Mare, Fabio Locatelli, Hiroiko Ooi, Claudia Mariani, Cristina Campi, Laila Di Michele, Eun-E Goh, Claudio Bergamini, Juin-Yoong Lim, Guy Liwingston, Miwako Matsuki, Olga Scobryashenskaja, Andrei Serdetchnyi, Yoshiko Takase, Luk', Dunja Roboti, Alessia Toffanin, Ya Ou Xie, Bernardino Beggio, Elpidia Giardina, Hanna Lachertowa, Rosario Randazzo, Maria Sicari, Lea Cumbo, Slawomir Zubrzycki, Katrijn Friant, Karol Radziwonowicz, Michal Salomon, Paul Hermsen, Viviana Foniciello, Dawid Witten, Krystyna Makowska, Roman Markowicz, Ivana Todorovic, Maja Apostolska, Alicia Menes, Daniela Cantarini, Beata Nowicka, Diacoma Marrone, Daniela Callea, Catherine Leendres, Marcel Backaert, Isabelle Staripolski, Philippe Trefois, Martine Neyrynck, Piotr Grzybowski, Patricia Hecq, Nathalie Culot, Thomas Bene, Nathalie Delacroix, Alain Latteur, Annick Rongveaux, Pascale Marcelino, Philippe Perreaux, Philippe Riga, Sigrid Ehring, Renata Cicuttini, Peter de Groot, Marianne Hemeleers, Isabele Legros, Sarah Monheim, Grazyna Rzym, Catherine Delahaye, Carine de Vinck, Olga Bezverkhni, Catherine Feist, Daniel Leuridan, Anna Cymbor, Finneke Rottiers, Sophie Dumont de Chassard, Philippe Libois, François Houtart, Jeannette Noteboom, Bernard Woronoff, Michel Mathu, Alessandro de Riva Onestis, Annette Adler-Kirkby, Karla Germonprez, Martin Goetz, Marianne Lohman, Christian Much, Antonio Sardi de Letto, Ewa Osinska, Jolanta Ploska, Katarzyna Chyznikowa, Daniela Cantarini, Maria Rita Pellitteri, A.Scarpitta, D. Callea, Ada Braschi, Daniela Marrone, Laura Ernandez, Dorota Popek, Annette Ehrentreich, Scott Tinney, Martin Rosenberg, Jacek Kierdel, Marike Kaneda, Annamaria Di Gianpietro, Alessandro Bistarelli, Martyna Kosecka, Elzbieta Sternlicht, Marina Bergamini, Maria Elena Caboni, Guy Livingston, Fabio Locatelli, Martin Goetz, Alessandro Deljavan, Krzysztof Stanienda,Emanuele Marletta, Justyna Fikus, Hélène Jeanney, Sante Bruno, Muhidin Durruoglu, Alessia Misti, Adien Vasilachu, Miuhdin Demiriz, Emiliano Giannetti (clav), Luisa Torrese (cl), ChiaraAnnamaria2a Pulsoni (cl), Jean-Noel Remiche, Anait Karpova, Sabrina Dente, Annamaria Garibaldi (foto) ,

Marco Allevi, Andreacchio Sara, Matteo Bisbano Memmo, Bruno Sante, Cristina Campi, Francesco Campili, Ilaria Campili, Maria Grazia Caponnetto, Lilia Cazzetta, Angela Clerico, Margareth Caroline Coda, Aurora Cogliandro, Giorgia Ghiurghena Cugia, Filippo De Bona, Assunta De Marcellis, Carmelo Di Girolamo, Andrea Di Lorenzo, Giacomo Di Rosario, Angela Di Sante, Adolfo Luca Di Tomasso, Michele Di Toro, Cristina Donofrio, Valentina Fabbrizzi, Luca Gambellini, Francesca Guatteri, Federico Laudadio, Daniela Mameli, Sara Mancini, Francesca Mangialardo, Daniela Mascione, Silvia Clara Meda, Alessandro Melchiorre, Aurora Merciaro, Jessica Mincione, Francesco Minniti, Angelo Nasuto, Angelo Luca Ottaviano, Grazia Pellegatta, Itziar Perez De Ziriza Makaia, Francesca Perrotta, Stefano Petrocco, Marianna Proietti, Chiara Pulsoni, Carla Ricci, Lucia Romanelli, Alessandra Romano, Michele Russo, Antonella Salvatore, Paola Salvatore, Marco Francesco Schirru, Dino Silvestri, Mariantonina Stillitano, Sabrina Suppa, Sabrina Tamborini, Silvia Umile, Luca Viceré, Mihaela Spiridon, Ozana Kalmuski - Zarea,  

 

Strings: Hanna Lachert (vn), Michail Bezvierkhny (vn), Serban Nichifor (vc), Kazimierz Wròbel (vc), Kazimierz Pyzik (cb), Yaniv Segal (vn), Alexandru Rebenciuc, (vn) Jakub Kowalski (vc), Gabriel Bugu (vn, vl), Simina Renea (vl), Dorothy Lawson (vc), Yuval Waldmann (vn), André Siwy (vn), Yaga Siwy (vn), Renata Zatti (vc), Violette Beaujean (tcheng), Rafael Lara-Gonzales (cb), Igor Unterberg (vn), Sharon Yamanda (vn), Alexandru Rebenciue (vn), Martha Abraham (vn), Beata Bedkowska-Huang (guit), Tadeusza Samarek (vc), Pawel Kuklinski, (vn), Elzbieta Wojciechowska (vn), Jadwiga Moskal (cb), Piero Meneghini (vn), Adam Matysek (guit), Henryk Kowalski (vn), Jakub Kowalski (vc), Otto Tolonen (guit), Piero Mencatini (vn), Ilya Laporev (vc), Rafaelle Latra-Gonzales (cb), Pawel Kuklinski (vn), Tadeusz Samerek (vc), Adam Matysek (guitar), Angelo Di Ianni (vn), Marina Monti (vn), Patrycja Piekutowska (vn), Anna Czerny (vn). Angela dI Iani (vn), Marina Monti (vn), Augusti Gasparri (vc), Michel Torrosetti (vn), Michele Torresett (vn)i, Fabrizio Casu (vn), Fabio Pellegatti (vc), Marc Seto (vn), Leah Swann (vl), Jean.Frédéric Molard (vn), Alain Di Liberatore, vc

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Winds: Grzegorz Olkiewicz (fl), André Philippe (tp), Anca Matthies (cl), Hans De Jong (sax), Manuela Martinelli (fl), Dirk Meursing (fl, ob), Marco Felicioni (fl), Dorota Dominiczk (fl), Milos Pahor (fl), Gaby Breuninger (fl. dolce), Stefano Lo Monaco (cl), Mario Sicuri (cl), Paul Andriessen (sax), Maria Verhulst (sax), Halina Brzozowska (fl), Malgorzata Martyka (cl), Sylvia Kedzierska (fl), Lieve Scheuremans (fl), Stefania De Marco (fl), Stefano Circeo (fl). Katia Di Iorio (cl), Stefania Di Marco (fl), Denis-Pierre Gustin (fl), Mario Marzi (sx), Emiliano Rodriguez (sx), Robin Berg (fl), Amerigio Orlando (cl)

Singers: Cristina Ascher, Olga Szwajcer, Françoise Vanhecke, Rolande Vande Paal, Milena Sarti, Antonella Cesari,Violette Beaujean, Brigite Lindhardt, Antonia Kawecka, Hanna Skarzanka, Marcel Novek, Ersila Di Fonzo, Sabrina Di Blasio (soprano), Agnieszka Hauzer (soprano), Adrana Bernardes (soprano), Marie-Noelle de Callatay, Sopkie de Tillesse (mezzo)

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Actors/Directors : Nicolle Mossoux, Estelle Marion, Alexandre von Sivers, Dominique Grosjean, Maria-Luisa Merlo, Michel Wright, Marie-Christine Duprez, Nathalie Materne, Beniamino Cardinez, Suzanna Castiglione, Danillo Volpone, Gulia Basel, Massimo Velaccio, Anna-Paola Velaccio, Franca Minnucci, Carlo Orsini, Giacomo Valozza, Tommaso di Giorgio, Annette Ehrentreich, Christa Reichert, Charles Kleinberg, Catherine Schaeffer, Joerg Lanner, Ewa Skarzanka, Elzbieta Krakowska, Ksawery Jasinski, Wlodzimierz Pruss, René Van Leggello, Andrzej Slowikowski, Wojciech Siedlik, Alicja Stasiowska, Ewa Krzystanska, Marta Bodzak, Fabienne Schaller, Jean-Marie Schaller, Michel Page, Freddy Kersellaers, Marco de Lisi, Caio Gaiarsa, Kazimierz Grochmalski, Brigitte Frohnmeyer, Marie-Christine Duprez, Frederic Lepers, Nathalie Materne

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PEDAGOGY

1962 - 1967 : piano teacher at the Warsaw High School for Music
1971 - 1991 : director école de piano Piotr Lachert Brussels/Hoeilaart
1971 - present : judged (as part of a panel of judges) numerous international piano competitions in Brussels, Paris, Antwerpen, Pescara, Latina, Caltanissetta, Padova, Ostuni, San Salvo, Rimini; Tychy (guitar), Rende (composition), Pescara (composition), Katowice (composition), Lavello (composition), Fermo (composition).
1974 - 1978 : chargé de cours in conservatoire royal, Brussels
1976 : Author of methode creative (six printings), a studying system for beginner pianists
1978 - present : visiting professor (piano) for workshops and masterclasses in belgium, germany, austria, poland and italy invited by european pianoteachers association, (international congress: berlin 1983, antwerpen 1987, rome 1992), musikalisches jugend (weichengarten, 1982) ; internazionaler arbeits kreis (kassel 1984) ; international society of music education (belgium, germany, austria 1979 - 1998) ; musiques et recherches (lasne 1985) ; siem (fermo, grosseto, bellaria, poretta, (1983 - 1998) ; internazionaler gesselschaft für neue musik (frankfurt 1994) ; temv! (bruxelles, 1990 - 1993) ; ministerstwo kultury i sztuki (warsaw, 1995 -1998) ; ministerstwo kultury i dziecictwa narodowego (warsaw, 1999 - 2000) ; stowarzyszenie polskich artystòw muzykòw (wroclaw, zakopane, siedlce, (1992 -2002) ; Ass. Anton Diabelli (Padova, 1995 - 1998) ; SIEM Palermo, Marsala, Caltanissetta, Catania, Messina (1986) ; SIEM Pescara (1992, 1996) ; SIEM Lecce (1993, 1994), - Spazi Sonori (Cosenza 1994, 1995) ; Amici di Musica (Mantova, 1995) ; SIEM (Novellara 1995) ; SIEM Taranto (1995, 1996, 1998) ; SIEM Verona (1996) ; Aulos (Rimini, 1992 - 1996) ; Amici della Musica (Cesena 1998) ; Centro Studi per la Didattica Strumentale e Musicale di Kamerton (Cepagatti 1997, Tocco da Casaura 1998, Francavilla 1999, Pescara 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003) ; Scuola di Musica Follonica (1999) ; Istituto musicale Faenza (1999) ; Istituto musicale Teramo (2001) ; CLAMAR Albano Terme (2002) ; EPTA Suisse, Saint Gallen, (2002) ; Ass. Fryderyk Chopin, Agrigenti. Master Class (2004).
1991 - 1994 : chamber music seminars, Hoeilaart
1992 - present, professor of piano pedagogy, Accademia Musicale, Pescara
1993 - 1994 : Creator and host for "Lezioni di Pianoforte a casa" (piano lessons at home), twenty segments aired on Italian TV
1993 - present : Artistic director for special pedagogical project organised by Polish State Department of Art and Culture
2000 - member of the jury of the Guitar Competition "8 Slaska Jesien Gitarowa", Tychy
2003 - President of the jury of the First Percussion's composition Competition, Fermo
2003 - President of the jury of the first "Free Music" (composition) competition, Pescara
2003 - President of the jury of the I° Concorso internazionale di Composizione ed Esecuzione per Strumenti a Percussioni e Batteri, Conservatorio di Fermo
2004 - Conservatorio di Trieste, Master Class di pianoforte
2004 - President of the jury of the 2nd Concorso internazionale di Composizione ed Esecuzione per Strumenti a Percussioni e Batteri, Conservatorio di Fermo
2004 - Corsi Estivi Atri, member of the jury of the Guitar composition Competition
2008 - President of the Jury of the School Music Composition Competition, Trani
2009 - member of the jury of the percussion’s compositions Competition Fermo


2010 - pianolachert, Piano course on line

2011 - member of the jury of the percussion Competition Fermo

 

Click here for a partial list of Piotr Lachert's students.

PERFORMER

Solo career (pianoforte)

1961 - prizewinner of the 3rd Ignacy Paderewski Piano Competition Bydgoszcz, Poland
1969 -over 300 recitals, radio, TV broadcasts, also in Sonata Duo with sister, violinist Hanna Lachert

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1969 - 1971 : Sonata Duo with violinist Andre Siwy, Brussels
1970 - 1972 : founder and artistic director of Baroque ensemble con moto ma giocoso, Brussels

Contemporary music performer

1973 - 1992 : founder and artistic director of Théâtre Europeen de Musique Vivante! Numerous tours with this ensemble in western Europe, Poland, Iran, Korea, USA, den Haag, Bruxelles, Stockholm, London, Paris, New York, Roma, Wien, Warszawa, Teheran, Soeul, Berlin, Lisabon, Barcelona, Milano, Salzburg, Hamburg, Bremen, Middelburg, Maastricht, Eindhoven, Brugge,  Heidelberg, Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Glasgow, Utrecht, Zwolle, Tilburg, Gent, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Krakòw, Poznan, Limoges, Poitiers, Antwerpen, Shiraz, Venezia...) as a director, actor, commentator, keyboard player. Div Performers2
Programms: Ernst und Scherz, Clavichord & Co, Aroka Tre, TEMVÕS Trio 89, Tasten Musiktheater, Le Rite de... 3 x 2, Patchwork, Am Sam Pike Pike, Serioso ma non troppo, Divertimento Musicale, Tango macabre, Serenades & Fantaisies.
1992 - present, director, actor, pianist with ensemble Espace Kamerton Abruzzo, programms: Sorella, Per Voce (versione italiana) Per Voce (wersja polska), Improvisations during poetry performances.

MISCELLANEOUS

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1938 : born on 5 September in Warsaw
1962 - present : music journalist for professional periodicals in Poland, Belgium, Germany, France and Italy
1961 - 1968 : member of SPAM (Polish artists association)
1968 - 1969 : poetry published in Lodz and Paris
1969 : prizewinner in poetry contest in Lodz, Poland
1972 - present : producer of new music concerts in Belgium and Italy
1976 - 1979 : artistic advisor of the Institute for Music Pedagogy CEFCAM, Belgium
1977 - present : citizen of Kingdom of Belgium
1978 - 1987 : member of Belgian Composers Union
1981 : artistic director of New Sound Festival, Brussels
1981 - present : member of European Piano Teachers Association
1981 : founder and director of Belgian artists to Polish artists
1983 - 1997 : editorials for Mensa's Bulletin (Belgium-Luxembourg)
1984 - 1989 : member of board of directors of Belgian section of Mensa International
1987 : founder of TEMV! publishing co., Hoeilaart (Belgium)
1987 - 1998 : artistic director of New Music for New Pianists competition, Brussels
1989 - 1991 : artistic advisor to publisher Alain Van Kerckhoven in Brussels
1990 : Founder of Concert Artists Guild, Brussels
1992 : elected Man of the Year 1992 by International Biography Center, Oxford
1992 : winner of Trophee Royale in theatre music, Brussels
1992 : founder of KAMERTON a.a. in Pescara
1993 : present, artistic director of Espace Kamerton Abruzzo
1994 : founder and artistic director of publishing co Chiola Music Press, Pescara
1994 : artistic director of New Consonante Music Festival, Pescara
1995 : recipient of Italian Ghiroconda Award
1995 : initiator and artistic director of competition for composers Premio Città di Rende
1996 : artistic director of New Music for New Pianists competition, Pescara
1996 - 2000 : artistic director of Festival Centri Storici in Musica, Val di Pescara
1997, 1999 : initiator and artistic director of competition for composers Premio Città di Pescara
1997 : founder and president of Clean Music Ass., Pescara
1997 : creator and producer of Pescara, Pescara, a musical project involving 70 commissioned pieces of 70 sec.
duration each for symphony orchestra written to commemorate 70 years of Pescara
1997 - 2003 : artistic director of Kamerton Festival, Pescara
1998 - 2003 : artistic director of "Spoltore Musica - Nuove Produzioni"
1999 : recipient of SABAM’s Médaille et Diplôme d’honneur
2002 : Award by American-Polish Association, poetry Competition, New York
2004 : First Prize poetry Competition "D'Annunzio - Michetti" Pescara
2005 : Award by American-Polsh Association, poetry Competition, New York
2005 : Founder and President of PORTO Autorità Artistica
2005 - 2006 : Author of Pendrak, a book for boys
2006 - 2007 : Author of Pendrak Dwa
2006 - 2007 : Author of Quattro racconti erotici e quaranta non, sui tempi che non esistono più.
Successive residences : Warsaw, Paris, Hannover, Bruxelles, Pescara.
Since 1977 citizen of Kingdom of Belgium

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