Krzysztof Meyer

Composer, pianist and educator; born 11 August 1943 in Krakow. Upon graduating from the Fryderyk Chopin Music School in Krakow, he enrolled in the State Higher School of Music in Krakow (later the Academy of Music in Krakow); he studied composition, initially under Stanislaw Wiechowicz and after Wiechowicz's death under Krzysztof Penderecki, graduating with honors in 1965. Meyer was also a music theory student under Aleksander Fraczkiewicz and similarly completed this course of study with honors in 1966. In 1964, 1966 and 1968 he supplemented his musical education in Paris and Fontainebleau, where he studied composition and piano performance under Nadia Boulanger. Between 1966 and 1968 he performed as a pianist with the first Polish ensemble exclusively devoted to performing contemporary music, with emphasis on the avantgarde - MW 2