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Raphael Delekta

Conductor, Educator, Director of Music Performances & Arranger, Professor of Music Academy in Cracow.

Born 1957, Cracow, Poland.

Contact

+48 601489518

delektarafaljacek@gmail.com

Raczna 578, 32-060 Liszki, Poland

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Available for the following engagements

  • Orchestral Conductor
  • Conductor of musical theatre (opera, operetta, ballet & musicals
  • Music Manager or General Music Director of orchestras or of musical theatre
  • Professor of Music at Universities, specialisy in conducting, orchestra & singing
  • Arranger
  • Orchestral Conductor for Universities, secondary school & conservatory

Education

1964 - 1972
Primary Music School, violine.
1972 - 1976
Secondary Music School, viola.
1976 - 1981
Cracow Academy of Music. Studied Conducting in the class of Professor Jerzy Katlewicz. Graduated with honours with a concert conducted Cracow Philharmonic Orchestra.
1990 - 1992
Doctorate in Conducting at Cracow Academy of Music.

Courses in interpretation run by H.Rilling and L.Somoghyi. 
Studied in marketing at the Warsaw School of Economics.

Experience

1980 - 1989
Conductor in Opera and Operetta in Cracow. Prepared 5 new opera productions and conducted about 600 performances of current repertoire (details in Repertory).
1980 - present
Assistant Professor, than Professor, Music Academy, Kraków. Lectures on conducting and associated subjects.
1991 - 1996
Leading Conductor of Cracow Music Academy Symphony Orchestra performing 6 concert with different repertoire each year.
1994 - 1995
Prepared the Cracow Music Academy Symphony Orchestra for concert which was conducted by Professor Krzysztof Penderecki.
1993 - 1996
Vice dean of Composition, Conducting and Theory of Music Department.
1982 - 1998
Leader, The Cracow Youth Philharmonic (Orchestra of Music Conservatory of Cracow . Orchestra works on the basis of own guidelines set up for orchestras of elementary schools and conservatories.
1989 - 1991
Artistic Director in Opera in Bydgoszcz including the post of Managing Director for 6 months.
since 1994
Collaboration with Music Theatre "Roma" in Warsaw.
since 1996
Collaboration with Music Theatre in Gliwice.
1996
Habilitation. Thesis: „Cooperation of the director and the conductor at creating the operatic performance, on the example of the opera Tosca“.
since 1997
Professor of Music Academy, Gdansk, working with students at vocals and opera performances. Collaborating with Music Academy‘s Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra „Sinfonietta Gedania“.
1998 - 2004
Musical director of Musical Theater in Gdynia.
2005 - 2012
Dean of Faculty of Musical Composition, Performance, Analysys and Education in Academy of Music in Cracow.
2008
The President of Republic of Poland awarding of the Professor position.
since 2012
Vice Rector for Scientific Reserch and International Cooperation Academy of Music in Cracow.
since 1981
Continually engaged in conducting different orchestras in Poland (among others Sinfonia Varsovia, in colaboration with Sir Yehudi Menuhin) and abroad.
 

Achievements

  • Cracow Youth Philharmony of Conservatory of Music, Cracow giving concerts in Poland and abroad (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, England, USA, Mexico).
  • Co-organizer and conductor of Krzysztof Penderecki Festival in Luslawice.
  • Continually engaged in recording for radio and television and film music and collaborating in pop, rock and jazz recording.
  • Conducting with Tatiana Shebanowa, Sharon Markovitsh, Elżbieta Towarnicka, Krzysztof Jakowicz, Konstanty Andrzej Kulka, Grigorij Zhyslin, Allan Marks, Kemal Gekic, Stanisław Drzewiecki, Daniel Stabrawa a.m.o.
  • Conducting over 3000 performances of opera, operetta and musichals and over 400 concerts of symphonic and chamber music.
  • Visiting professor in Royal Academy of Music London.
  • Eminent specialist in instrumental and vocals music interpretation and metodology in this field.

Repertory

Repertory of opera, ballet and operetta includes first own performances.

OPERA

  • G. B. Pergolesi "La serva Padrona" (Kraków 1982),
  • D. Cimarosa "Il Matrimonio Secreto" (Kraków 1987),
  • G. Rossini "La Cenerentola" (Gdańsk 1998), "Il Barbiere di Seviglia",
  • W. A. Mozart "Le Nozze di Figaro"(Gdańsk 2000),
  • A. Stefani "Krakowiacy i Górale" (Kraków 1982),
  • Ch. W. Gluck „Orfeo a Euridice“ (Gdańsk 2001, Kraków 2007),
  • G. Verdi "Rigoletto", "Traviata", „Falstaff“,
  • G. Bizet "Les Peches di Perles", "Carmen", 
  • G. Puccini "La Boheme", "Tosca", "Madama Butterfly" (Bydgoszcz 1989)", „Gianni Schicci“ (Gdańsk 2002),
  • St. Moniuszko "Straszny Dwór", "Halka", 
  • P. Czajkowski "Eugene Onegin" (Kraków 1985, Bydgoszcz 1990, Gdańsk 1999),  
  • W. Żeleński "Konrad Wallenrod" (Kraków 1986).

BALLETS

  •  L. Delibes "Coppelia", 
  •  R. Szczedrin "Anna Karenina" (Kraków 1985).

OPERETTAS and MUSICALS

  • C. Zeller "Der Vogelhaendler" (Xanten - Germany 1991) , 
  • Fr. Lehar "Die Lustige Witwe",  "Frasquita" (Gliwice 1996), 
  • E. Kalman "Princessin of Csardas", 
  • J. Strauss "Die Fledermaus" (Bydgoszcz 1989),  "Wiener Blut" (Gliwice 1997),
  • Zigauner Baron" (Bydgoszcz 1990, Warszawa 1995),   "Eine Nacht in Venedig", 
  • R. Friml "The King of Vagabonds", 
  • G. Gershwin "Blue Monday" (Kraków 1992), 
  • F. Loewe "My Fair Lady" (Gliwice 1997),
  • R. Czubaty "Błekitny Zamek" (Warszawa 1995), 
  • F. von  Suppe "Boccaccio" (Gliwice 1997), 
  • C. M. Schoenberg „Les Miserables“, 
  • L. Bricusse " The Scrooge" (Gdynia 1998), 
  • A. L. Webber  „Evita“, „Jesus Christ Superstar“ (Gdynia 1999, Basel 2002, 2003), 
  • B. Andersson „Chess“.

SELECTED REPERTORY OF SYMPHONIC AND CHAMBER MUSIC

VIVALDI:
oratorial and instrumental music
BACH:
oratorial and instrumental music
HAENDEL:
instrumental music, Messiah
MOZART:
overtures, symphonies, instrumental concerts, Requiem
HAYDN:
symphonies, instrumental concerts
BEETHOVEN:
symphonies, overtures, instrumental concerts
ROSSINI:
overtures
WEBER:
overtures
BERLIOZ:
overtures, symphonies
SCHUBERT:
symphonies
SCHUMANN:
symphonies
MENDELSSOH:
symphonies
BRAHMS:
symphonies, "Song of Fate", instrumental concerts
LISZT:
symphonic poems
WAGNER:
overtures
CHOPIN:
piano concertos
VERDI:
overtures, Requiem
BRUCKNER:
"Te Deum"
TCHAIKOVSKY:
symphonies, instrumental concerts,
MOUSSORGSKY:
"Pictures at an Exibition",
DVORAK:
symphonies 7, 8, 9, instrumental concerts
SAINT SAENS:
symphonies 1 – 3, Urbs Roma
PADEREWSKI:
symphony "Polonia", piano concerts
MAHLER:
symphonies 1, 2, 5
RAVEL:
symphonic pieces, piano concerts
DEBUSSY:
symphonic pieces
R.STRAUSS:
symphonic poems
PROKOFIEV:
symphony 5
RACHMANINOV:
"Paganini Variation"
STRAVINSKI:
"Firebird", "Petrushka", Ebony Concert
SZYMANOWSKI:
"Stabat Mater", IV symphony
GERSHWIN:
"Rhapsody in Blue", "An American in Paris",
ROUSSEL:
"Bacchus et Ariadne", symphony
BARTOK:
all symphonic pieces, instrumental concerts
KODALY:
"Galantha Dances"
PANUFNIK:
symphony 9
BRITTEN:
War Requiem
KILAR:
"Krzesany", "Koscielec 1909", "Orawa"
GÓRECKI:
"Three Pieces in Old Style", III Symohony
PENDERECKI:
Viola concert, II cello concert, Sinfonietta, a.m.o.
LUTOSLAWSKI:
Cantefleur, Chantefable
 
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