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prof. dr hab. Artur Milian, prof. zw.

Artur Milian  (1950- ) Violinist, concertmaster, university lecturer

Biography

Artur Milian was born on 22 August 1950 in Gliwice, Poland. In 1973, he graduated from the Academy of Music in Katowice (in the class of Prof. Stanisław Lewandowski). For his post-graduate studies, he attended the Moscow Conservatory from 1974 to 1976 (in the class of Prof. Galina Barinowa). Since 2004 he has held the title of full professor at the Institute of Music, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn (UWM). Additionally, he has worked as full professor since 2006 at the Olsztyn College of Informatics and Management in the Institute of Cultural Studies. Since the beginning of 2012, he has served as the director of the Department of Instrumental Pedagogy. A member of the Association of Polish Musicians since 1978.

Foreign languages: English, Russian, Italian and German.

Artistic Activity

Since 1977 Mr. Milian has been the concertmaster of the  Warmia-Masuria Philharmonic Orchestra in Olsztyn, Poland. He had the same position in the Bari Symphony Orchestra (1983-84) and the Wiener Mozart Oper and Sinfonietta de Paris (1988-1992). In 1987 he founded the Philharmonic Olsztyn String Quartet and in 24 September 2009 the UWM Fine Arts Faculty String Quartet. In the last fourty years, he has performed hundreds of concerts as a soloist as well as a chamber music player in Poland, Russia, Germany, Romania, the Czech Republic, Italy, France, Lithuania, Sweden, Denmark and the USA. With symphony orchestras,  he has performed violin and orchestra concertos of the following composers: Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Lipiński, Tchaikovsky, Dworak, Vivaldi, Mendelssohn, Shostakovich, Wissmer and Cesa. Milian was a jury member during the international music competitions in Vienna (1992-1995) and Brasov (1993).

Discography 

As a soloist he has performed on these recordings:

  • Mario Cesa: Violin and Orchestra Concerto (1988), premiere performance and international recording (LP) Musical Dorica Italia
  • Pierre Wissmer: Violin and Orchestra Concerto No. 2 (1992), (CD) SEPM Quantum Paris
  • Pierre Wissmer: Violin and Orchestra Concerto No. 3 (1992), premiere performance and international recording, (CD) SEPM Quantum Paris
  • Antoni Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (1992), (CC) Audio-Soft Olsztyn

Publications

-Renata Gielig-Milian, Artur Milian, Christmas Eve with the Family and Carols, Warmian Diocesan Publishing House, Olsztyn, 1995

-Bronze Medal,  L. van Beethoven International Violin Competition in Hradec (1971, Czechoslovakia)-Award from "Warmia and Mazury" monthly magazine (1982)

-The Gold Cross of Merit (1986)

-Medal for Exceptional Merit from the Białystok Medical Academy (1990)

-ATUT '94 Warmia and Mazuria Award in the field of culture for the Artur Mialian String Quartet

-Medal from Slane College of Communications & Fine Arts, Bradley University (USA, 1996)

-Distinguished Cultural Service Award (2000)

-Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta

-University of Warmia and Mazury Award (2005)

-Award from the Mayor of Olsztyn (2005)

-Award from the Ministry of Culture (2005)

-Gold medal form the Association of Polish Musicians(2009)

-UWM Rector's Awards

-Merit Badge of Honor for the Warmia-Masurian Province (2010)

- Bronze Medal for Merit to Culture - Gloria Artis (2010)

-The University of Warmia and Mazuria Silver Laural Award (2011)

-Medal from the Association of Polish Musicians for service to Polish music (2012)

-Congratulatory letter from the Mayor of Olsztyn (2012)

-Gold Medal for Long Service (2013)

-Pegasus Award from the Governor of Warmia and Mazury (2015)

-Medal for the 25th Jubiles of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn (2015)

-Medal for the 70th Jubiles of Warmia and Mazury Philhamonic in Olsztyn (2016)

-Medal from the Association of Polish Musicians for service to Polish music (2016)