The 3rd Eugeniusz Towarnicki Flute Competition For Students
The 3rd Eugeniusz Towarnicki Flute Competition For Students is organized by The Grażyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz Academy of Music in Łódź and coorganized by The Chopin University of Music in Warsaw and I.J. Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań.
The competition will take place between November 4th-7th 2025 in the Grażyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz Academy of Music in Łódź.
The Competiton is open to undergraduate and graduate students of flute classes of all nationalities who are under 25 years of age at the time of the competition, and talented high school students who meet the competition/program requirements. Persons under the age of 18 may participate in the Competition with the written consent of their legal representative.
The goal of the Competition is:
- raising the level of flute fundamentals education;
- promoting flute solo and chamber music, including the contemporary works of Polish and foreign composers;
- raising the artistic education level of flute solo and flute and piano repertoire presentation across the music academies;
- review of education level in Poland and abroad;
- students’ achievements confrontation;
- flute popularization through international meeting of young instrumentalists;
- choosing the most talented young instrumentalists;
- flute playing experience exchange between Competition participants;
- expanding the solo flute repertoire;
- search for new Poland’s promotion possibilities as well as establishing flute’s position as Poland’s musical calling card.
Applications for the competiton will be accepted unitl June 23rd, 2025 using the registration form available www.towarnickicompetition.pl (website will be launched by April 23rd, 2025).
TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION
REGULATIONS
REGISTRATION FORM
FEES
- 400,00 PLN – for those studying at an academy or university based in Poland
- 100,00 EURO – for those studying in an academy/university outside Poland
The competition entry fee should be transferred to the account:
Bank PEKAO SA
IBAN PL 97 1240 3028 1111 0000 2822 1999
SWIFT/BIC PKOPPLPW
Title of transfer: „The Participant’s first and last name – E. Towarnicki Competition”
The enrolment fee cannot be reimbursed and does not cover the costs of accommodation and alimentation.
Transfer fees and any other bank commissions shall be covered by the participant.
PATRON OF THE COMPETITION
Eugeniusz Michał Towarnicki
He was born on 4.01.1904 in Kolomya (territory of present-day Ukraine), died in Kraków on 19.03.1971. From 1917 to 1920, he was a student of the High School of Economics in Lviv. After graduating, he began studying at the Polish Music Society Conservatory in Lviv. He graduated in 1927 the class of A. Spata and St. Szera. In the same year, he studied supplementary studies with M. Moyse in Paris. Since 1928 he was the flutist of the Municipal Theatre Orchestra (Grand Theatre and Theatre of News) in Lviv. From 1933 to 1939 he ran a flute class at the Polish Music Society Conservatory. In 1938 he was appointed as flutist by the Polish Radio Orchestra in Lviv under the direction of T. Seredyński. In 1939, when the World War II broke out, he was called into the army, then evacuated to Romania from where he was sent to France in 1940, where the 1st Grenadier Division was formed. In June 1940, in the Battle of Lagarde, the formation ceased to exist and Towarnicki unfortunately went to the prisoner camp and then a concentration camp, where he had been imprisoned until 1945. In 1947 he began working as the Principal Flutist of the Polish Radio and Television Orchestra in Kraków, where he had played concerts until 1970, both as a soloist and a chamber musician and also made numerous recordings. As of 1947 he was also a flute teacher at the W. Żeleński State High School of Music in Kraków. In addition to working as a musician and educator, he created important flute handbooks, which represented a breakthrough in the teaching of flute playing in Poland after the World War II: School for flute – volumes I, II, III (1955-1962) and the Study of Technique on the Small Flute (1966). This gave all the flute students a unique opportunity to learn the exercises of the greatest masters and previously inaccessible or quite new repertoire – written by contemporary composers. The last publication was the collective work Flute from A to Z (1977).
Sebastian Łukaszewski
Soloist of the Grand Theatre in Poznań Orchestra with significant number of concerts, chamber performances and premieres of ballet, opera, operetta and musical performances. The artist cooperates with the Opera at the Castle in Szczecin, the Wrocław Opera, the Nova Opera, the Poznań Philharmonic, Warmian-Masurian and the Musical Theatre in Poznań. He has performed in most European countries with titles such as e.g.: Der Rosenkavalier, Arena di Verona gala, Verdi-Gala, Strauss-Gala, Verdi-Requiem, Tosca, La Boheme, Aida, Carmen, Nabucco, Hänsel und Gretel, Carmina Burana and many others. In addition to his artistic creative work, the flutist is fascinated by history, architecture and music exploration, implementing the idea of writing a biography of a well-known Poznań flutist and educator – Prof. Augustyn Boczek.
CO-ORGANIZERS
The Chopin University of Music
I. J. Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań
PRIZES
Younger category: undergraduate (bachelor's student)
- 1st Prize – 5000 PLN
- 2nd Prize – 2500 PLN
- 3rd Prize – 1500 PLN
- Distinction Awards – 1000 PLN
Older category: graduate (master's student)
- 1st Prize – 5000 PLN
- 2nd Prize – 2500 PLN
- 3rd Prize – 1500 PLN
- Distinction Awards – 1000 PLN