Event

29 09 2025

  • 11:00

Inauguration of the Academic Year 2025/2026

September 29, 2025 /Monday/ at 11:00 a.m.
UMFC Concert Hall, 2 Okólnik St., Warsaw, Poland

The ceremony will be translated into Polish Sign Language. Those who wish to use the translation service are kindly requested to sit in the front rows, if possible. An induction loop is also installed in the hall. Please report any adaptation needs by completing the questionnaire https://forms.office.com/e/CyqhJxteHZ.

The Rector and Senate of the Chopin University of Music are honored to invite you to the inauguration ceremony of the 2025/2026 Academic Year, during which Maestro Antoni Wit will receive the title of Honorary Doctor of the Chopin University of Music.

Official part
Opening of the ceremony by His Magnificence the Rector, Prof. dr hab. Tomasz Strahl
Awarding of the title of Honorary Professor of the Chopin University of Music to Prof. Błażej Sroczyński
Ceremonial matriculation 
Speeches by the Presidents of the Student Council and the Doctoral Student Council 
Speech by the doctor honoris causa Akademia Muzyczna we Wrocławiu, Prof. dr hab. Marek Pijarowski
Speech by the Dean of the Department of Symphony and Opera Conducting, Prof. dr hab. Jan Miłosz Zarzycki
Awarding of an honorary doctorate to Maestro Antoni Wit
Speech by Maestro Antoni Wit

Artistic part
Domenico Scarlatti – Sonata d-moll K 1
Marta Papoian - klawesyn 


Jean-Marie Leclair - Sonata e-moll op. 9 nr 2
II.    Allemanda. Allegro ma non troppo
Marta Ossowska - flet traverso 
prof. dr hab. Lilianna Stawarz - klawesyn

 

On behalf of Professor Antoni Wit, we kindly ask that, on the occasion of the awarding of an honorary doctorate, instead of flowers, you make a donation to the Senior Musician's Home Foundation. Donations can be made to the following account at Bank Millennium: 59 1160 2202 0000 0000 4025 4742.