100 Notable alumni of Academy of Music of Warsaw

Adelina Paschalis-Souvestre was a Polish soprano and music teacher.

Gustaw Lewita was a pianist from Płock, Poland. He attended the Vienna Conservatory and graduated with distinction, before heading to Paris. There he became a member of the Pasdeloup Orchestra. In 1882, he became a professor at the Warsaw Conservatory. He later gave concerts to Archduke Franz Karl in Vienna, and, touring America, before the Emperor of Brazil.

Andrzej Rozbicki, also known as Andrew Rozbicki, is a Polish-Canadian conductor, music educator, producer and promoter of Polish music in Canada and United States. He is the founder and artistic director of Celebrity Symphony Orchestra. He is a Music Educator with Toronto Catholic District School Board.

Przemysław Lechowski is a Polish classical pianist.

Shaul Berezovsky was a Polish and Israeli composer, pianist, and music director. He composed music for productions by many of the leading figures of the Polish Yiddish Theatre of the interwar and postwar period, including Shimon Dzigan and Israel Shumacher, Moishe Broderzon, and Ida Kamińska. He was also well known as a choir director and arranger.

Max Shakhnovich Fishman, (December 12, 1915—September 24, 1985) was a Moldavian Soviet composer, pianist, and teacher. Fishman was raised within Jewish, Polish, and Russian cultural traditions.

Augustyn Bloch was a Polish composer and organist, student of Feliks Rączkowski and Tadeusz Szeligowski. He was an active concert organist, conducted his own music, and wrote music for the Polish Radio Theater.

Tymoteusz "Timothee" Adamowski was a Polish-born American composer, conductor, music teacher, and violinist. He was a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1884 to 1886 and from 1889 to 1907. He formed the Adamowski String Quartet in 1888 and was conductor of the Boston Pops from 1890 to 1894 and from 1900 to 1907. He formed the Adamowski Trio...

Ewa Strusińska is a Polish British conductor, General Music Director (Generalmusikdirektorin / GMD) of the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Theater Görlitz-Zittau and principal conductor of the Neue Lausitzer Philharmonie in Germany. Former music director and principal conductor of Szczecin Philharmonic Orchestra, first became known to the artistic world as a laureate and prize winner at the prestigious Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition in Bamberg.

Daniel Vnukowski is a Polish Canadian pianist and classical music broadcaster.

Jerzy Lefeld born 17 January 1898 in Warsaw, died on 22 February 1980 in Warsaw, was a Polish composer, pianist and a music teacher.

Wojciech Rajski is a Polish conductor, and the founder and current Artistic Director of the Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Sopot. His recordings can be heard on such labels as Deutsche Grammophon, Dux Records, and EMI Classics.

Witold Friemann was a Polish composer, pianist, conductor and pedagogue. He was very prolific and composed more than 350 Opuses, most of which remain inedited.

Paweł Kotla is a Polish-British conductor, arts manager and cultural diplomacy expert. In November 2024 he was awarded by the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage the medal Meritorious for Polish Culture.

Michał Kondracki was a Polish composer. His work was part of the music event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics.

Piotr Tomaszewski is a classical guitarist from Poland. He has studied classical guitar since 1990 and has won awards in several competitions, as well as being a guest performer at festivals and events around Europe. Tomaszewski's repertoire includes guitar concertos and works for solo guitar, playing both modern pieces and classical works of centuries past. He also records for Spain's...

Elżbieta Sikora is a Polish composer who has been resident in France since 1981. She has composed stage, orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal, and electroacoustic works as well as film scores.

Zbigniew Turski was a Polish composer. He was born in Konstancin and died in Warsaw. Polish composer and conductor Zbigniew Turski won the gold medal at the 1948 London Olympic Art Competitions for his Symfonia Olimpijska ("Olympic Symphony") in the category of Music, Compositions for Orchestra.

Włodzimierz Kotoński was a Polish composer.

Krzysztof Knittel is a Polish composer of symphonic, chamber, stage and electroacoustic works.

Bolesław Szabelski was a Polish composer of modern classical music. While his style shifted and varied over the course of his life, he is best known for his atonal work composed during the 1950s and 1960s.

Ana Lara is a Mexican composer.

Stanisław Szpinalski was a Polish pianist.

Iwona Sobotka is a Polish soprano and Grand Prix Winner of the Queen Elizabeth Music Competition.

Janusz Wawrowski is a Polish violinist, lecturer at the Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, and director of multiple violin festivals.

Ewa Kupiec is a Polish classical pianist.

Bolesław Kon was a Polish concert pianist who won international acclaim in his brief career.

Konstanty Antoni Gorski was a Polish composer, violinist, organist and music teacher.

Boleslaw Stanislavovich Przybyszewski was a Soviet public person, teacher, and musicologist. Head of the Moscow Conservatory in 1929–1932.

Karol Mikołaj Radziwonowicz is a Polish pianist.

Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński was a Polish composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher. He was the Director of the Warsaw Conservatorium from 1922 until 1928, when he reportedly died while giving a lesson. His students included composer and pianist Jadwiga Sarnecka.

Roman Maciejewski was a Polish composer. His mother, Bronisława Maciejewska, was a talented violinist and music teacher who taught him to play piano.

Bohdan Wodiczko was a Polish conductor and music teacher.

Sergiusz Pinkwart is a Polish writer, traveler, journalist and classical musician. He is the author of novels, books for children and travel guides, and is also a television, radio and press journalist and TV personality.

Henryk Pachulski was a Polish-born pianist, composer and teacher who spent most of his life in Russia.

Tomasz Szukalski was a Polish jazz saxophonist, composer and improviser. Szukalski worked with Tomasz Stańko, Edward Vesala and Zbigniew Namysłowski. Awarded Magister of Music (Master of Arts) at Fryderyk Chopin University of Music, Warsaw. Szukalski was a revered master of tenor saxophone and his style was often compared to that of John Coltrane and Ben Webster.

Kazimierz Wiłkomirski; was a Polish cellist, composer and conductor. Son of Alfred Wiłkomirski, brother of Maria Wiłkomirska, Wanda Wiłkomirska and violinist Michael Wilkomirski. Graduate of the Moscow Conservatory (cello student of Alfred von Glenn).

Piotr Perkowski was a Polish composer.

Moshe Wilensky was a Polish-Israeli composer, lyricist, and pianist. He is considered a "pioneer of Israeli song" and one of Israel's leading composers, and was a winner of the Israel Prize, the state's highest honor.

Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński was a Polish pianist and composer. He was the son of Ignacy Dobrzyński, the brother of Edward Dobrzyński, and the father of Bronisław Dobrzyński.

Jan Adam Maklakiewicz was a Polish composer, conductor, critic, and music educator. His most known compositions belong to the choral music.

Eugenia Umińska was a Polish violinist.

Alexander Kipnis was a Russian and American bass singer. Having initially established his artistic reputation in Europe, Kipnis became an American citizen in 1931, following his marriage to an American. He appeared often at the Chicago Opera before making his belated début at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City in 1940.

Elisabeth Chojnacka was a Polish harpsichordist living in France. She was one of the world's foremost harpsichordists specializing in the performance of contemporary harpsichord music.

Franciszka Themerson was a Polish, later British, painter, illustrator, filmmaker and stage designer.

Zbigniew Drzewiecki was a Polish pianist who was for most of his life a teacher of pianists. He was especially associated with the interpretation of Frédéric Chopin's works. His pupils include several famous pianists of the 20th century, and his influence was therefore very pervasive.

Felicja Blumental was a Polish pianist and composer. "She was one of the relatively few women born in the first quarter of the twentieth century to have achieved an important career as a concert pianist."

Paweł Łukaszewski is a Polish composer of contemporary classical music. He has won seven Fryderyk Awards. According to David Wordsworth, Łukaszewski is the best-known Polish composer of his generation in and out of Poland "by far" (Wordsworth 2013, p. 50).

Olga Pasichnyk is a Polish-Ukrainian classical soprano singer. She lives in Poland.

Aleksander Jabłoński was a Polish physicist and member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. His research was in molecular spectroscopy and photophysics.

Grzegorz Fitelberg was a Polish conductor, violinist and composer. He was a member of the Young Poland group, together with artists such as Karol Szymanowski, Ludomir Różycki and Mieczysław Karłowicz.

Ilya Alekseevich Shatrov was a Russian military musician, conductor and composer. He is known for composing the waltz On the Hills of Manchuria in 1906. The waltz recounts his experiences at the Battle of Mukden during the Russo-Japanese War, and he dedicated it to one of his comrades who was killed in the battle.

Witold Małcużyński was a Polish pianist who specialized in the works of Frédéric Chopin.

Zygmunt Noskowski was a Polish composer, conductor, and teacher.

Roger Robert Woodward AC OBE is an Australian classical pianist, composer, conductor, teacher and human rights activist. He is widely regarded as a leading advocate of contemporary music.

Tadeusz Baird was a Polish composer.

Juozas Naujalis was a Lithuanian composer, organist and choir conductor. He is acclaimed as Lithuanian music patriarch.

Paul Kletzki was a Polish conductor and composer.

Wacław "Wacek" Kisielewski was a Polish pianist. He was the son of Polish politician Stefan Kisielewski, and one half of the pianist duo Marek i Wacek (Marek and Wacek) with Marek Tomaszewski. He made arrangements of classical and modern music, and played concerts in many countries worldwide.

Piotr Anderszewski is a Polish pianist and composer.

Dorota Miśkiewicz [dɔˈrɔta miɕˈkʲɛvit͡ʂ] is a Polish singer, songwriter, composer, and violinist.

Jerzy Jan Maksymiuk is a Polish composer, pianist and orchestra conductor.

Roman Totenberg was a Polish-American violinist and educator. A child prodigy, he lived in Poland, Moscow, Berlin, and Paris, before formally immigrating to the U.S. in 1938, at age 27. He performed and taught nationally and internationally throughout his life.

Ludomir Różycki was a Polish composer, conductor and pedagogue. He was, with Mieczysław Karłowicz, Karol Szymanowski and Grzegorz Fitelberg, a member of the group of composers known as Young Poland, the intention of which was to invigorate the musical culture of their generation in their mother country.

Julian Fontana (31 July 1810 — 23 December 1869) was a Polish pianist, composer, lawyer, author, translator, and entrepreneur, best remembered as a close friend and musical executor of Polish composer Frédéric Chopin.

Marek Tomaszewski is a Polish pianist. He was one half of the pianist duo Marek and Wacek with Wacław Kisielewski from 1963 until his death on 12 July 1986. He is the father of French music video director David Tomaszewski.

Zdzisław Karczewski was a Polish film actor. He appeared in more than 30 films between 1933 and 1970.

Ida Haendel, CBE was a world renowned Polish-British-Canadian violinist. Haendel was a child prodigy, her career spanning over seven decades. She also became an influential teacher.

Grażyna Bacewicz Biernacka was a Polish composer and violinist of Lithuanian origin. She is the second Polish female composer to have achieved national and international recognition, the first being Maria Szymanowska in the early 19th century.

Wanda Aleksandra Landowska was a Polish harpsichordist and pianist whose performances, teaching, writings and especially her many recordings played a large role in reviving the popularity of the harpsichord in the early 20th century. She was the first person to record Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations on the harpsichord in 1933. She became a naturalized French citizen in 1938.

Janusz Olejniczak was a Polish classical pianist, academic teacher and actor. He made an international career as a pianist, especially with the piano music of Chopin which he played on modern and period instruments. He portrayed the composer in the 1991 film Blue Note, and played piano music in the 2002 film The Pianist, also appearing as the hand double.

Mieczysław Karłowicz was a Polish composer and conductor.

Sofia Sigizmundovna Dzerzhinskaya was a leading Polish Social Democrat and later Communist politician. During World War II, she was director of the Polish language Tadeusz Kościuszko radio station, broadcasting the communist messages into occupied Poland.

Jan Stanisław Ekier was a Polish pianist and composer known for his authoritative edition of Chopin's music for the Chopin National Edition.

Sir Andrzej Panufnik was a Polish composer and conductor. He became established as one of the leading Polish composers, and as a conductor he was instrumental in the re-establishment of the Warsaw Philharmonic orchestra after World War II. He also served as Principal Conductor of the Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra.

Alexander Tansman was a Polish composer, pianist and conductor who became a naturalized French citizen in 1938. One of the earliest representatives of neoclassicism, associated with École de Paris, Tansman was a globally recognized and celebrated composer.

Bronisław Huberman was a Polish violinist. He was known for his individualistic interpretations and was praised for his tone color, expressiveness, and flexibility. The Gibson ex-Huberman Stradivarius violin, which bears his name, was stolen twice and recovered once during the period in which he owned the instrument. Huberman is also remembered for founding the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (then known as...

Henry Vars was a Polish-American composer, arranger and conductor whose compositions spanned popular, jazz and classical genres. He is regarded as the most important musical theatre, pop and film music composer of the interwar Poland.

Bernard Ładysz was a Polish bass-baritone and actor. He performed internationally at major opera houses and festivals, and was known especially for the title roles of Mozart's Don Giovanni and Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov. His recordings include Lucia di Lammermoor alongside Maria Callas. He took part in the world premieres of Krzysztof Penderecki's opera The Devils of Loudon at the Hamburg...

Adam Sztaba is a Polish composer, music producer, conductor, arranger, pianist and television personality.

Fou Ts'ong was a Chinese and British pianist who was the first pianist of his national origin to achieve international recognition. He came to prominence after winning third prize and the Polish Radio Prize for the best performance of Chopin's mazurkas in the 1955 V International Chopin Piano Competition, and remained particularly known as an interpreter of Chopin's music.

Małgorzata Walewska is a Polish opera singer, dramatic mezzo-soprano.

Michalina Olszańska is a Polish actress and writer. She is a daughter of actors Agnieszka Fatyga and Wojciech Olszański. She has published two novels as a teenager.

Witold Roman Lutosławski was a Polish composer and conductor. Among the major composers of 20th-century classical music, he is "generally regarded as the most significant Polish composer since Szymanowski, and possibly the greatest Polish composer since Chopin". His compositions—of which he was a notable conductor—include representatives of most traditional genres, aside from opera: symphonies, concertos, orchestral song cycles, other orchestral...

Jakub Józef Orliński is a Polish countertenor and breakdancer. He has performed leading roles with many opera companies, including Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House, Warsaw Grand Theatre and Oper Frankfurt.

Hania Rani is a Polish pianist, composer and singer.

Hilary Koprowski was a Polish virologist and immunologist active in the United States who demonstrated the world's first effective live polio vaccine. He authored or co-authored over 875 scientific papers and co-edited several scientific journals.

Anna Maria Jopek is a Polish vocalist, songwriter, and improviser. She represented Poland in the 1997 Eurovision Song Contest, with the song "Ale jestem" and finished 11th out of 25 participating acts; and in 2002, she collaborated on an album with jazz guitarist Pat Metheny. She has received numerous awards for her music, including Michel Legrand's Personal Award in Vitebsk...

Piotr Andrzej Rubik is a Polish composer of symphonic pop music for orchestra, film and theatre as well as conductor, music producer and vocalist. He gained nationwide popularity in the mid-2000s with the success of his songs Niech mówią, że to nie jest miłość (2005) and Psalm dla Ciebie (2006).

Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leading composer of his era whose "poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation".

Władysław Szpilman was a Polish Jewish pianist, classical composer and Holocaust survivor. Szpilman is widely known as the central figure in the Roman Polanski film The Pianist, which was based on his autobiographical account of how he survived the German occupation of Warsaw and the Warsaw Uprising.

Zuzanna Irena Grabowska, known professionally as sanah (stylized in all lowercase), is a Polish singer, songwriter, violinist, and composer. She received nationwide popularity in 2020, with the release of her single "Szampan", which became a number one hit in Poland. She later released her debut studio album Królowa dram (2020), which peaked at number one in Poland. She has gone...

Ignacy Jan Paderewski was a Polish pianist, composer, philanthropist, and statesman who became an international spokesman for Polish independence. Rising to prominence as a virtuoso in the late 1880s, he toured widely in Europe and the United States. As a composer, he wrote orchestral, instrumental, and vocal works and an opera, Manru (premiered 1901), which remains the only opera by...

Kyōhei Sorita is a Japanese classical pianist and conductor. In 2021, he won second prize, ex aequo, at the XVIII International Chopin Piano Competition, the highest prize for a Japanese-born pianist in the competition since Mitsuko Uchida's second prize in 1970.

Maria Sadowska, also credited as Marysia Sadowska or simply as Marysia, is a Polish pop singer, music producer, screenwriter and film director.

Romuald Twardowski was a Polish composer, pianist, organist and academic teacher who studied in Vilnius, Warsaw and Paris. In a style described as "developed neoclassicism", he composed operas, ballets, instrumental music and vocal works, especially sacred music for both Catholic use and the Orthodox Church. He achieved international prizes for his compositions, and many works were recorded in anthologies, including...

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis was a Lithuanian composer, painter, choirmaster, cultural figure, and writer in Polish.

Włodek Pawlik, Włodzimierz Pawlik is a Polish composer and jazz pianist. On 26 January 2014, he became the first Polish jazz musician to receive a Grammy Award, having won in the Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album category with his album Night in Calisia, recorded with Randy Brecker and the Kalisz Philharmonic Orchestra, released in the USA by Summit Records.

Eta Moiseyevna Tyrmand was a Belarusian composer.