Bartek Pacan
Bartosz Pacan graduated with honours from the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, where he studied in the clarinet class of Andrzej Janicki. He has honed his skills in numerous master classes taught by such artists as Piotr Szymyślik, Arnaud Leroy, Valter Vítek, Jiří Hlaváč, Nicholas Cox, and David Krakauer. He won First Prize in both the 14th Academic Clarinet Competition in Włoszakowice and the 8th Clarinet Festival in Piotrków Trybunalski, and was also a prize-winner in the 4th West Pomeranian Clarinet Festival in Szczecin and 15th Concurso Internacional de Clarinete Ciudad de Dos Hermanas (Spain, 2008). He has taken part in numerous international music festivals, such as the Ars Cameralis in Katowice, the Warsaw Autumn, the Wratislavia Cantans, the Prague Spring, and the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Germany). In 2009, he represented Poland at the international ClarinetFest in Porto, playing Karol Kurpiński’s Clarinet Concerto in B flat major. He also appeared at the 20th and 21st International Chamber Music Festival “Silesian Quartet and its Guests”.
As a soloist, he has given concerts accompanied by, among others, the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra of Polish Radio, the Silesian Chamber Orchestra, as well as the philharmonic orchestras of Katowice, Częstochowa and Rybnik under the baton of such conductors as Krzysztof Penderecki, José Maria Florencio, Massimiliano Caldi, and Michał Klauza.
Since 2010, he has been a clarinettist with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice. He also collaborates with the AUKSO Chamber Orchestra of the City of Tychy and Sinfonietta Cracovia. From 2010 until 2014, he was an assistant at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. The artist is a co-founder of the Etnos Ensemble.
[2023]