Dr hab. Julita Przybylska-Nowak, prof. AMKL

Pianist, soloist and chamber musician from Wrocław. She graduated with honours from the Karol Szymanowski Secondary Music School in Wrocław, in the class of Professor Janina Butor. She studied piano at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice under Prof. Czesław Stańczyk. She crowned her studies with a performance of Ignacy Jan Paderewski's Piano Concerto in A minor with the Symphony Orchestra of the Katowice Philharmonic under the baton of its artistic director, Maestro Mirosław Jacek Błaszczyk. During her studies, she came into contact with many eminent pedagogues, such as Prof. Maria Szwajger-Kułakowska, who opened the world of chamber music to her, and Prof. Józef Stompel, Prof. Sabolcs Esztenyi.
She completed her postgraduate studies in the Master Piano Class of Prof. Włodzimierz Obidowicz at the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław. She has honed her skills at master classes given by many outstanding pianists, including legendary Chopinists: Halina Czerny-Stefańska, Edith Picht-Axenfeld and Tadeusz Kerner. She has participated in performance and pedagogical courses covering early and contemporary music.

The beginnings of Julita Przybylska-Nowak's pianistic career were connected with the music of Fryderyk Chopin. Numerous domestic and foreign competitions (Göttingen, Darmstadt, Marianske Lazne), scholarships of the Fryderyk Chopin Society in Warsaw, concerts in places of the composer's cult (Żelazowa Wola, Duszniki Zdrój), give testimony to the artistic bond which links the pianist with the repertoire of the greatest of the Romantics.

Invited to the World̨ Euro Gate Exhibition in Taipei, she gave a number of recitals in the Taiwanese capital. She also performed at the World EXPO in Hanover, where she had the opportunity to present̨ Polish music. In 2002, she made the world premiere and then the premiere CD recording of the last sonatas by the Wrocław composer Ryszard Bukowski. As a soloist, she has collaborated with many orchestras under the baton of Jacek Mirosław Błaszczyk, Marzena Diakun, Anna Duczmal-Mróz, Mieczysław Gawroński, Robert Kabara, Klemens Kamiński, Agnieszka Nagórka, Marek Pijarowski, Wojciech Rodek, Jacek Rogala and Marek Tracz. Among Julita Przybylska-Nowak's solo performance interests, a special place is occupied by the brillante style, which she also seeks in chamber music. She has presented chamber music concerts in Italy, the Czech Republic, Romania and Turkey.

Since 2010, she has been performing with the violinist Jarosław Pietrzak, forming the Art Chamber Duo ensemble. Their collaboration has resulted in 5 CD albums, containing both world premieres of forgotten works and grand duo style compositions. Two CD albums were honoured with the prestigious award in the 1st International Competition ,,Musical Eagles’ in 2021 in three categories: premiere performance, chamber ensemble and phonograph album.  ‘Grand Duo Brillant’, realised by RecArt and the Polonia Music Art Foundation, was co-financed by the Polish History Museum in Warsaw as part of the “Patriotism of Tomorrow” Programme, where joint compositions by the Polish pianist Edward Wolff and the Belgian violinist Henri Vieuxtemps were presented for the first time in the history of world phonography. The second album , ‘Irena Regina Wieniawska vel Poldowski’, was produced by Grantor, subsidised by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage from the Fund for the Promotion of Culture as part of the programme ‘Musical Footprint’, implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance. The year 2023 brought another award for the album ,,Their Voices‘ (,,Their Voices’) released by the DUX Company. The Museum of the History of Polish Jews POLIN in Warsaw has assumed honorary patronage of the release and the partners of the Polonia Music Art Foundation, co-publisher of the album, are: Jewish Community Center in Warsaw, the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław and the sponsor, the Union of Artists and Performers STOART. The project was co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage from the Fund for the Promotion of Culture as part of the ‘Musical Footprint’ programme, implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance.

Numerous DVDs and recordings for the Polish Television document performances during festivals and important cultural events, such as May with Early Music, Henryk Wieniawski International Festival, Singer's Warsaw Festival, International Feliks Mendelssohn Festival, 56th Jan Kiepura Festival Krynica Górska, International Holocaust Remembrance Day or the ceremony of awarding the Righteous Among the Nations medals conferred by the Yad Vashem Institute. The artist has performed in Poland (e.g. National Philharmonic in Warsaw, Philharmonics in Katowice, Lodz, Cracow, Wałbrzych, Jelenia Góra, Cracow, National Forum of Music in Wrocław, Polin Museum in Warsaw, Castle in Lublin) and abroad (Music Universities: Ankara, Ostrava, Rome, Bucharest). The pianist has collaborated with, among others, the harpsichordist Aleksandra Rupocińska, the violinist Ebru Karaagac, the cellists Izzet Naziliak, Agnieszka Kołodziej, Tomasz Daroch, and the winner of the International Violin Competitions in Moscow and Genoa - Ilya Grubert, owner of Henryk Wieniawski's last violin during a special concert commemorating the composer's performance in 1855, playing the same violin. Julita Przybylská-Nowak's activities also include pedagogy̨. In May 2006, she was elected to the board of the European Piano Teachers Association Poland. In 2013 she taught a chamber music course at the National University of Music in Bucharest, and 2015 at Haccettepe Universitesi in Ankara. Regularly invited to conduct in-service training for piano teachers, she acts as a lecturer for workshops for music school students and pedagogues and as a juror in competitions for young pianists.

She has given lectures at national and international conferences at the Academies of Music: Wrocław, Gdańsk, Poznań and Łódź, as well as methodical lectures for piano teachers in music schools in Brzeg, Namysłów, Opole and Leszno.

Since 2007, the Academy of Music has been her only workplace, where she works at the Instrumental Department. For several years she has been teaching: Learning accompaniment with a vista playing and Chamber ensemble, working in the Department of Chamber Music, since 1.03.2023 as professor at the AMKL.  Her students achieve laurels in chamber music competitions at home and abroad, as well as awards for outstanding pianist accompaniment. Between 2020 and 2024, the ensembles led by her won more than 30 awards. She received many congratulatory diplomas for the level of the chamber formations she prepared.  

She was awarded a doctor of arts degree in 2012 and a postdoctoral degree four years later in 2016. She is also active in organisational activities at the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław: in 2019-2020 she was the organisational manager of the Methodical Symposium for String Instruments, Harp and Guitar and the VII All-Polish Scientific Session , ‘Chamber Music in Polish Music of the 19th and 20th Centuries’ in 2018. In 2022 she was the secretary of the VIII Polish Duo Competition.

She participated in the work preparing the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music for MusiQuE accreditation (Certificate of Institutional Accreditation awarded by the Board of the European Accreditation Commission Music Quality Enhancement in 2020). She also served on the Commission for the Restructuring of the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław, appointed by JM Rector Prof. Grzegorz Kurzyński. His Magnificence the Rector, Prof. Dr. Krystian Kiełb, entrusted her with an honourable and responsible function - Leader of the Team for the Evaluation of the Quality of Artistic and Scientific Activities at the Faculty of Instrumental (category A+).  

Her research work, involving the discovery of forgotten musical literature and the performance editing of sheet music, has resulted in 11 volumes published and intended for use at home and abroad (mostly by the Eufonium publishing house), including nine volumes of virtuoso duos for violin and piano and two volumes of literature for solo piano.

To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music, she prepared a project entitled ‘Karol Lipiński's Piano’, subsidised from the funds of the Museum of Polish History in Warsaw as part of the ‘Patriotism of Tomorrow’ programme. As part of the project, she found piano literature of one of the most famous violin virtuosos of the Patron of the Music Academy in Wrocław. She compiled old prints and edited them for performance. Note materials including: Polonaise Pathetique ,Polonaise A No.5, Polonaise op. 5 No.1, Polonaise op. 5 No.2, Polonaise op. 5 No.3, Mazur op. posth. are available on the website of the Polonia Music Art Foundation. Thanks to a grant received by the Foundation - Studio Grantor recorded the concert in the Concert Hall of the Academy of Music, as part of the Lower Silesian Festival of Science on 19.09.2023. Julita Przybylska-Nowak's performance featured piano works by Karol Lipiński and Polonaises op. 26 by F. Chopin for violin and piano, composed by the composer. The violin part was performed by Prof. Jarosław Pietrzak, and the binding word in the form of an attractive lecture was given by Dr Aleksandra Pijarowska. The works made available on the YouTube platform constitute, apart from one pre-recorded work, a world premiere.