Awards & Winners

Krzysztof Penderecki

Date of Birth 23-November-1933
Place of Birth Dębica
(Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Dębica County, Poland)
Nationality Poland
Also know as Krzystof Penderecki, 크리슈토프 펜데레츠키, Krystof Penderecki, Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki, Penderecki, 크르지스츠토프 펜데레키, 크지슈토프 펜데렉키, Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki, Krystof Penderecki
Profession Composer, Conductor, Film Score Composer, Teacher
Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki is a Polish composer and conductor. The Guardian has called him Poland's greatest living composer. Among his best known works are his Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima, St. Luke Passion, Polish Requiem, Anaklasis, four operas, eight symphonies and other orchestral pieces, a variety of instrumental concertos, choral settings of mainly religious texts, as well as chamber and instrumental works. Born in Dębica to a lawyer, Penderecki studied music at Jagiellonian University and the Academy of Music in Kraków. After graduating from the Academy of Music, Penderecki became a teacher at the academy and he began his career as a composer in 1959 during the Warsaw Autumn festival. His Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima for string orchestra and the choral work St. Luke Passion, have received popular acclaim. His first opera, The Devils of Loudun, was not immediately successful. Beginning in the mid-1970s, Penderecki's composing style changed, with his first violin concerto focusing on the semitone and the tritone. His choral work Polish Requiem was written in the 1980s, with Penderecki expanding it in 1993 and 2005.

Awards by Krzysztof Penderecki

Check all the awards nominated and won by Krzysztof Penderecki.

2008


Polish Academy Award for Best Film Score
Honored for : Katy?

Nominations 2008 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Polish Academy Award for Best Film Score Katy?

1998


Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition
Honored for : Penderecki: Violin Concerto No. 2, Metamorphosen
Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra)
Honored for : Violin Concerto No. 2 Metamorphosen

Nominations 1998 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition Penderecki: Violin Concerto No. 2, Metamorphosen
Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra) Violin Concerto No. 2 \"Metamorphosen\"

1996


Nominations 1996 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Direction The 39th Annual Pablo Casals Festival

1995


Nominations 1995 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Direction Pablo Casals Festival
38th Annual Pablo Casals Festival

1987


Wolf Prize in Arts
(music - for his achievements and innovations in the field of composition.)
Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition
Honored for : Penderecki: Cello Concerto No. 2

Nominations 1987 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition Penderecki: Cello Concerto No. 2