Bronisław Kazimierz Przybylski (1941–2011) was polish composer and educator. He studied at the Academy of Music in Łódź where he received a diploma in music theory from Franciszek Wesołowski in 1964 and a diploma in composition under Tomasz Kiesewetter in 1969. He also studied under Bolesław Szabelski in Katowice and with Roman Haubenstock-Ramati at the Vienna Hochschule für Musik. From 1965, he was an academic teacher at the Academy of Music in Łódź, and started in 1987 taught composition there – first as an associate professor, and 1992–2011 as a full professor. In 1978–1981 he was the Vice-Rector for Didactic Affairs at his alma mater, in 1987–1990 the Dean of the Faculty of Composition, Theory of Music and Eurhythmics, and in 1991–2011 the head of the Department of Composition. In 1982 he initiated “Musica Moderna”, a program that presents contemporary works of Polish and foreign composers twice each academic year.
Przybylski has gotten several awards for composition in national and international competitions. His works have been presented at major festivals of contemporary music, such as “Warsaw Autumn”, “Music Spring” (Poznań), “Musica Polonica Nova” (Wrocław), ISCM World Music Days (Tel Aviv), “Musikprotokoll” (Graz), The International Rostrum of Composers (Paris). Bronislaw Kazimierz Przybylski is a prizewinner of numerous composers’ contests, for example at the Grzegorz Fitelberg Competition he was awarded the 3rd prize for In honorem Nicolai Copernici for orchestra (1972) and 2nd prize for Guernica, Pablo Picasso in memoriam for orchestra (1974), at the Polish Radio and Television Composers’ Contest – 2nd prize for Taniec for string orchestra (1972) and 3rd prize for Pieśń pasterska for voice and chamber orchestra (1974); in 1976 he was awarded an honorable mention at the International Henryk Wieniawski Composers’ Contest for Capriccio for violin solo, in 1984 – an honorable mention at the UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers in Paris for A Varsovie for orchestra (1980).
