Zbigniew Stępniak – bas
About me...
Education:
•2010-2012 – 2nd degree (master’s) studies at the Faculty of Vocal Music and Drama at Feliks Nowowiejski Musical Academy in Bydgoszcz,
•19.10.2011 – doctoral dissertation at the Faculty of History and Social Science at Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw,
•2000-2004 – 3rd degree (doctoral) studies in the Section of Theoretical and Applied Musicology at Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw,
•2000-2004 – Postgraduate Vocal Music Programme at Feliks Nowowiejski Musical Academy in Bydgoszcz and the National Culture Centre in Warsaw,
•1997-2000 – 2nd degree (master’s) studies at the Faculty of Social at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn,
•1988-1994 – 2nd degree (master’s) studies at the Theological Seminary of the Warmia Metropoly (philosophy and theology).
Courses:
•20.04.2015 – National Scientific Conference CULTURE - MUSIC - EDUCATION in Bielsko-Biala, lecture: „The theology of the Old Testament canticle Sing to the Lord, all the earth (1 Chronicles 16, 23-34) and the Baroque musical rhetoric in the cantata Singet dem Herrn alle Welt for bass solo, two trumpets and b.c. Johann Philipp Krieger`s (1649-1725)”,
•10-30.04.2015 – teaching internship at the Academy of Music Louis Spohr in Kassel (Janusz Niziołek, Ruth Altrock, Markus Haas, Maren Klingebiel, Ulrike Meyerholz, Gertrud Weyhofen, Albert Kaul, Alberto Bertino, Maria Schuppert, Vera Weht),
•27-29.10.2014 – International Scientific Conference «The musical culture of Koenigsberg-Kaliningrad», lecture: „Theology of Psalm 100 (99) and the musical rhetoric of Baroque in Johann Valentin Meder’s (1649-1719) concert Jubilate Deo”, College of Music in Kaliningrad,
•9-11.06.2014 – I International Scientific Conference MAN - ART - EDUCATION, under the title: Creative expression in the twenty-first century education, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, lecture: „Music theology lecture of the Old Testament Proverbs (Proverbs 8, 23-31) in the solo motet for basso profondo Claudio Monteverdi - Ab aeterno ordinata sum”,
•16.05.2014 – V International Scientific and Practical Conference „Actual problems of education and society” organized by Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, "Moscow Institute of socio-humanitarian" branch in the city of Yaroslavl (Russia),
•17-18.04.2014 - VII International Scientific and Practical Conference „High school: experience, problems and prospects” organized by the Russian Peoples' Friendship University in Moscow,
•14-27.10.2013 - visiting researcher at State University Janka Kupala Grodno, the length of such rate interpretation of Russian romances with Irina Grachowska,
•2-6.09.2013 - International Scientific Conference in Kiten (Bulgaria): „Formation of citizen and professional in terms of university education”, organized by the Sofia University St. Clement of Ohrid,
•6-24.05.2013 – apprenticeship training and artistic in Schola Cantorum Basiliensis – Academy of Ancient Music Basel Basel (Switzerland); solo singing: prof. Evelyne Tubb, prof. Ulrich Messthalter, prof. Gerd Türk, early music notation: prof. Véronique Daniels Angelika Moths, Gregorian chant: Kelly Landerkin, the basics of early music performance: prof. Jörg-Andreas Bötticher, prof. Dominique Vellard, prof. Anthony Rooley, Swen Schwannberger, Carlos Federico Sepúlveda,
•7-12.07.2012 – XII Course of Opera Singing in Krynica Zdrój (run by prof. Jadwiga Romańska, prof. Stefania Toczyska, prof. Eugeniusz Sąsiadek, prof. Jan Ballarin, prof. Maciej Witkiewicz) – organised by the Polish Association of Vocal Pegagogics,
•30.06.-7.07.2012 – VI Summer Courses of Early Music in Warsaw (run by Marek Rzepka),
•4-8.11.2009 – International Session of Group Singing (run by prof. Jadwiga Gałęska-Tritt, prof. Janusz Niziołek, prof. Ingrid Kremling) – Musical Academy in Bydgoszcz,
•01.2005 – International Seminar „Rabine’s metod and its importance in vocal pedagogics, group voice production and speech therapy” (coaches: prof. Eugen Rabine i Christoph Wendel) – Musical Academy in Bydgoszcz.
Experience:
•from 1.03.2014 – assistant professor in the Chair of Early Education at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn,
•1.02.2012 - 28.02.2014 – assistant professor in the Chair of Axiological Foundations of Education at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn,
•1.11.2007 - 31.01.2012 – lecturer in the Section of Teaching Education and Occupational Counselling (from 1.10.2010 – in the Chair of Axiological Foundations of Education) at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn,
•from 1.09.2007 – lecturer in the Archdiocese School of Church Musicians (group voice production, choir),
•from 2007 – co-operation with the Warmińsko-Mazurski In-Service Teacher Training Centre (workshops in voice production and voice hygiene),
•1.10.2006 - 30.09.2008 – lecturer at the State Higher School of Vocational Education in Ciechanów, the Institute of Philogy and History in Mława (voice production and hygiene, communication of linguistically handicapped people),
•1.08.2006 - 30.06.2009 – parish priest of St Andrew Apostle and St Roch’s Parish in Ramsowo,
•2006-2007 – commissioned teaching hours at the State Pegagogical School TWP in Warsaw, the Faculty of Pedagogics in Olsztyn (rhetoric, culture, voice production),
•2004-2008 – lecturer at the Postgraduate Vocal Music Programme at Feliks Nowowiejski Musical Academy in Bydgoszcz and the National Culture Centre in Warsaw (individual and group voice production, audio-video recording of lectures and concerts),
•2003-2005 – commissioned teaching hours at the Faculty of Biology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (voice production),
•1.09.1994 - 31.08.2001 – teacher of religion at the Vocational School Group in Olsztynek,
•1.07.1994 - 30.09.2000 – parocchial vicar at the Parish of Sacred Heart of Jesus in Olsztynek.
Administrative experience:
•from 2009 – organiser of regular meetings with vocal music at John Paul II Institute of Christian Culture in Olsztyn,
•07.2008 - 08.2009 – founder and artistic director of the Summer Concerts of Vocal Music „Varmia Gaudet et Cantat” in Ramsowo,
•2002-2007 – member of the Artistic Committee and International Jury of F. Nowowiejski Festival of Choral Music in Barczewo.
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