Aleksander Kobus - Trumpet

Education

PhD • 2019

Aleksander Kobus was born in Warsaw (Poland). He started playing the trumpet at the age of 10 in Oskar Kolberg State Music Primary School in prof. Stanisław Przybyszewski class. He continued studying with the same pedagogue in Grażyna Bacewicz State Music Secondary School in Warsaw. After finishing secondary school he started his studies in Karol Lipinski’s Academy of Music in Wrocław (Poland) in prof. Igor Cecocho class. In 2015 he finished his studies acquiring master’s degree and in 2019 finished phD studies.

Aleksander was improving his solo and orchestral skills learning with many prominent trumpet players i.e Paul Beniston, Guy Touvron, John Wallace, Andrew Balio, Uwe Komischke, Andrew Stone-Fewings, Willem van der Vliet, Peter Bond, Lucas Beno, Richard Stoelzel. He participated in many musical courses and received scholarships for talented musicians in Bydgoszcz (Poland), Wrocław (Poland) and Sarospatak (Hungary).

 

Achievements

 

In 2018 he won special prize in ARD Competition in Munich.

Aleksander Kobus has participated in many polish and international music competitions winning awards at competitions in Oława, Mielec, Szczecinek, Wrocław, Kalisz, Katowice, Brno (Czech Republic), Sarostapak (Hungary), and Chieri (Italy), Jeju (Korea). In 2014/2015 he become laureate of the most important prestigious scholarship award in Poland – “Młoda Polska” and other awards: scholarship from Minister of Science and Higher Education, President of Wrocław and Yamaha Music Foundation for Europe. 

In 2016 as a soloist Aleksander Kobus made recording of Krzysztof Penderecki Trumpet Concerto (Concerto per Tromba 2013). The recording was made with maestro Penderecki conducting and Polish Symphony Orchestra Sinfonia Iuventus. The album was nominated to most prestigious classical music award in Poland “Fryderyki” 2018.

 

Work

 

Currently Aleksander Kobus is principal trumpet player in National Forum of Music – Wroclaw Philharmonics and teaches at Karol Lipinski’s Academy of Music in Wroclaw, Poland. He also plays with "Capitol" Music Theatre in Wrocław.