Paweł Łukaszewski (b.1968)

Paweł Łukaszewski graduated from the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw (currently the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music) in cello (1992, diploma in Andrzej Wróbel’s class) and composition (1995, a summa cum laude graduate in Marian Borkowski’s class). In 2000, he received his Doctor of Music degree, and in 2006, he was given a post-doctoral degree. In 2014, he was awarded the academic title of Professor of Musical Arts. In 2016–24 he held the position of Vice-Rector at his alma mater.

Paweł Łukaszewski is considered one of Poland’s most outstanding creators of sacred music. The core of his achievements are vocal-instrumental and choral works. He was granted several awards and distinctions for his compositional work, including a distinction in 1992 at the Tadeusz Baird Young Composers’ Competition for his orchestral piece Arrampicata; second prize at the Second Forum of Young Composers in Kraków for Winterreise for string orchestra; in 1995, first prize at the Music Academy Competition in Warsaw, also for Arrampicata; in 1998, second prize at the 27th International Florilege Vocal de Tours Competition in France for his piece Crucem tuam adoramus, Domine from the Two Lenten Motets cycle for mixed choir a cappella.

He is a winner of the Fryderyk Phonographic Industry Award, and has been honoured with the Award of the Mayor of Częstochowa for his compositional work (1995), the Knight’s Cross (1998) and Officer’s Cross (2025) of Polonia Restituta, the Award of Saint Brother Albert (2006), Bronze Medal ‘Gloria Artis’ (2011), Primate of Poland Award (2011), Choc de Classica (2014), Orphee d’Or – Prix Hector Berlioz (2014), Award of the Pontifical Council for Culture Per Artem ad Deum (2020), the Medal of the Centenary of Regained Independence (2021) and the Silver Medal ‘Gloria Artis’ (2022), and the Medal of the 100th anniversary of the Polish Association of Writers and Composers for the Stage (ZAiKS) (2022).

Paweł Łukaszewski’s compositions have been performed at over a hundred festivals in Poland and abroad, and have been recorded on over 150 Polish and international albums released by labels such as Hyperion, Polskie Nagrania Edition, Acte Préalable, Musica Sacra Edition, DUX and Signum Records. Over 60 works have been published by Chester Novello, PWM, Edizioni Carrara, Walton and Lorenz Corporation, Edition Ferrimontana and Pana Musica Japan, among others.