Prof. Jerzy Mrozik (1995-2002)
He graduated with honours from the State Higher School of Music in Wrocław, where he studied under Leon Tejkowski and Stanislav Michalik. He supplemented his education at the Academy of Music in Prague under Prof. František Čech.
Since 1966 he has taught flute at the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław, in the years 1968-74 also at the then State Higher School of Music in Katowice. He was awarded the academic title of professor in 1987. In 1980-96, with a two-year break, he held the post of Head of the Chair of Wind Instruments and Percussion at the Wroclaw Academy. During the 1985-88 term, he was a member of the Council for Higher Artistic Education. From 1995 to 2002 he was the rector of the Academy of Music in Wrocław. He was a flutist with the Polish Radio Orchestra in Bydgoszcz (1954-55), the State Opera Orchestra in Wrocław (1955-58), the State Philharmonic Orchestra in Wrocław (1959-70), as well as the first flutist-soloist of the Great Symphony Orchestra of the Polish Radio and Television (now the National Symphony Orchestra of the Polish Radio) in Katowice (1970-95), with which he performed many times in 26 countries in Europe, Asia and both Americas on the most prestigious stages.
As a soloist and chamber musician, he has performed in Poland (e.g. at festivals: Warsaw Autumn, Poznań Music Spring, Festival of Polish Contemporary Music in Wrocław), in Germany and the Netherlands. In 1987-95 he was a member of the Wind Quintet of the Polish Radio and Television. He participated in many world premieres of works by contemporary Polish composers. He has made a number of recordings for the Polish Radio and Television, as well as for Polish and foreign phonographic companies; as a soloist and chamber musician he has recorded over 30 works (including world premieres); as a soloist of the Great Symphony Orchestra of the Polish Radio and Television - several dozen records. In addition to his teaching activities at the university, he is also a course lecturer; he teaches master classes in chamber music and flute at home and abroad. In the years 1980-2006 he was a lecturer in the flute class and artistic director of Interpretation Courses on wind instruments in Duszniki Zdrój.
He is a juror of national and international music competitions. In his theoretical work, he deals with issues of musical interpretation, technique of playing wind instruments and methodology of teaching flute playing. He has organised and exercised scientific leadership of four scientific sessions on the topic: ‘Technique of playing wind instruments’ held at the Academy of Music in Wrocław in 1986-95 with the participation of instrumentalists and theoreticians from Poland and abroad. Reviewer of first and second degree qualifications, doctoral and post-doctoral theses and proceedings for the award of the title of professor; reviewer in the proceedings related to the awarding of an honorary doctorate of the Academy of Music in Warsaw to the world-famous flutists Jean Pierre Rampal and Peter Lucas Graff at the Academy of Music in Krakow.
Artistic supervisor of first-degree dissertations, promoter of doctoral theses and promoter of honorary doctorates of Maestro Kurt Masur and Wojciech hr. Dzieduszycki. Co-founder of the Association of Polish Flutists, which has existed since 1995, in the years 1997-2000 and in the term of office 2006-2010 its president. He was editor-in-chief of the periodical ‘Flecista’, published in Wrocław, as well as author of journalistic and methodical articles published in it.