Madey, Boguslaw
Madey, Boguslaw
Madey, Boguslaw, Polish conductor and composer; b. Sosnowiec, May 31, 1932. He received diplomas in composition, piano, and conducting from the Academy of Music in Poznan, then went to England, where he took a course in conducting with Norman del Mar at the Guildhall School of Music in London (1959–60). Returning to Poland, he was a conductor at the Warsaw Opera (1960–72) and later music director at the Grand Theater of Opera and Ballet in Lodz (1972–77). In 1982 he became artistic director of the Baltic Phil. in Gdańsk. He composed a Piano Concerto (1957), Flute Concerto (1960), a concerto for Voice and Instruments entitled Transfiguration (1965), and some short piano pieces.
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