Knapik biography

Born in 1951, in Ruda Śląska, Eugeniusz Knapik studied composition with Henryk Mikołaj Górecki and piano with Czesław Stańczyk at the State College of Music (now Academy of Music) in Katowice, where he has worked since 1976: since 1992, he has run his own Computer and Electroacoustic Music Studio; since 1996, he has also been head of the Faculty of Composition, Conducting and Music Theory; from 2002 to 2008, he was vice-chancellor of the Academy.

Knapik made his debut as a composer in the ‘Young Musicians for a Young City’ (MMMM) festival in Stalowa Wola (alongside Andrzej Krzanowski and Aleksander Lasoń; these three composers are often dubbed the ‘Stalowa Wola generation’).

It was there that two of his works were given their first performance: 'Tak jak nad brzegiem morza' [As on the seashore] for instrumental ensemble and tape (1977) and 'Corale, interludio e aria' for flute, harpsichord and eleven string instrume