Prof. Grzegorz Kurzyński (2002-2008)
Academic career: piano studies - State Higher School of Music in Wrocław (in the class of Professor Włodzimierz Obidowicz), (1972); Royal Conservatory in Brussels (in the class of Professor Jean Claude Vanden-Eyden) (1984); postgraduate master's studies at the Juilliard School of Music in New York in the class of Professor Joseph Kalichstein and Professor Abbey Simon (1987).
Academic title of Professor of Musical Arts (1992). Internships and collaborations abroad: private scholarship of the eminent American pianist Malcolm Frager., scholarship from the Belgian Government Ministry of Culture and the Arts (1984) and the Barbara Piasecka-Johnson Foundation in the United States (1986).
Professional career: research and teaching staff at the Academy of Music in Wrocław (since 1972), the Academy of Music in Poznań (since 1996-2002).
Functions held: Academy of Music in Wrocław: head of the Piano Department (since 2001); vice-rector for scientific and didactic affairs (1999-2002). From 2002-2008 Rector of the Academy.
Artistic activity: soloist and chamber musician; concerts in Poland, England, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Russia, Ukraine, Luxembourg, former Czechoslovakia, Austria, the United States, Australia, Korea, Latvia and Italy. Recordings for CD, radio and television. Juror of national and international piano competitions; master classes in Poland, the Netherlands, Latvia, Romania, Germany, Israel, Serbia, Iceland.
Other: Member of the Council for Artistic Education in the Ministry of Culture (2002-2004); Member of the Accreditation Commission - Bologna Process - of the Conference of Rectors of Academic Schools in Poland (KRASP); Chairman of the Accreditation Commission of Artistic Universities (AKUA); Vice-Chairman of the Conference of Rectors of Artistic Universities (KRUA); member of the CRASP Economic Commission; member of the Team for the Development of the Procedure and Criteria for the Assessment of Academic Achievement at the Ministry of Science and Higher Education; member of the Team for the Development of a Model for Academic Progress in the Polish Academy of Sciences; member of the Team for the Development of a Model for Academic Progress in the Polish Academy of Sciences. Member of the Board of the Chain of Music and Dance (CHAIN) network of European Performing Arts Colleges;
member of the Polyphony Tuning Working Group of the Association Européenne des Conservatoires, Académies de Musique et Musikhochschulen (AEC); member of the Polyphony Accreditation Working Group of the Association Européenne des Conservatoires, Académies de Musique et Musikhochschulen (AEC); AEC Tuning Counselor; since 2010. Member of the 9-member General Council of the Association Européenne des Conservatoires, Académies de Musique et Musikhochschulen (AEC, Council member); Member of the 5-member European Accreditation Committee of the Association of European Music Schools (AEC Accreditation Committee); expert in accreditation procedures conducted by the European University Association (EUA) and the Association Européenne des Conservatoires; member of the General Council of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education; Bologna expert nominated by the Minister of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education; chairman of the team of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education creating the National Qualification Framework for the field of ART.