prof. dr hab. Jacek Wota

He graduated from the State Higher School of Music in Wrocław, where he studied percussion under Eugeniusz Waloszczyk in 1977. While still a student (1974), he was hired by the Wrocław Philharmonic Orchestra, where he served as soloist and timpani from 1980 to 2020.

As a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral musician, he has performed in Poland, almost all European countries, as well as in the United States, Canada, Japan, and South Korea. He has given world and Polish premieres of percussion works, performed at prestigious music festivals, and recorded for radio stations, television stations, and record companies.

In addition to his artistic work, he is also an active teacher; In 1977, he was employed at the State Higher School of Music in Wrocław (now the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music), where he completed successive stages of his academic and teaching career, culminating in the awarding of the academic title of Professor of Musical Arts by the President of the Republic of Poland in 2000. At his alma mater, where he currently holds the position of professor, he served as Dean of the Instrumental Faculty (1996-2002) and Head of the Jazz Music Department (2000-2002).

From 2006 to 2014, he taught at the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań, where he was a member of the only Department of Percussion in Poland.

He supervised and reviewed doctoral theses, and reviewed habilitation and professorship proceedings. He is regularly invited to serve on juries at national and international percussion competitions and lectures at master classes, workshops, seminars, and percussion congresses in Poland and abroad.

Since 1989, he has been a member of the Board of the Percussive Arts Society in Warsaw, where he currently serves as Vice President, and a member of the Percussive Arts Society (Polish Chapter) in the USA.