Tomasz Dobrzański / fot. Łukasz Rajchert
Tomasz Dobrzański / fot. Łukasz Rajchert
Tomasz Dobrzański
Artistic director of Forum Musicum

He graduated from the Academy of Music in Wrocław in the clarinet class of Prof Mieczysław Stachura. He studied recorder with Gabriel Garrido at the Early Music Centre at the Conservatoire Populaire in Geneva and with Michel Piguet in the Basel Schola Cantorum, where he also studied historical clarinet under the direction of Pierre-Andre Taillard. Tomasz Dobrzański is a multi-instrumentalist - he also plays medieval plucked instruments, as well as shawms, bagpipes and onehand flutes. In addition, he reconstructs old musical instruments himself and makes copies of them.Since 2000, he has been in charge of the Wrocław ensemble Ars Cantus, which has recorded numerous recordings of unknown music from Wrocław and Silesia. At the same time, he is involved in teaching and championing of early music. At the Wrocław Academy of Music and the Second Degree State Music School, he runs the recorder class.

During his lectures and workshops, he talks on historical performance practice and technique of playing historical instruments. He also edits music for theatrical performances. In 2016, at the Wrocław Academy of Music, he defended his doctoral thesis based on Italian old prints from the collection of Wrocław University Library.

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