Marek Nosal

Marek Nosal

Musician, guitarist and teacher.

As a soloist and chamber musician he has given concerts in Poland and abroad. He performed with philharmonic orchestras from Katowice, Lublin, Częstochowa and Olsztyn, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, chamber orchestras: Aukso, Silesian Ch.O., Archetti, Camerata Impuls as well as Silesian String Quartetand Mucha Quartet. He has premiered numerous new works by contemporarycomposersincluding concertos for guitar and orchestra by Edward Bogusławski, Aleksander Lasoń, Aleksander Nowak, Odysseas Konstantinopoulos and Szymon Gołąbek, as well as many solo and chamber compositions.

He has made a number of recordings for the radio, television and CD (i.a. J.S.Bach, A.Piazzolla, Polish contemporary music). In 2013 he published The work of Polish composers for solo guitar after 1945. The artistic and performance issues based on selected examples - the book and the CD with world premiere recordings of XX and XXI-century solo guitar music by Polish composers. In 2018 he released solo album In modo polonico with works by Aleksander Tansman, Jan Nepomucen Bobrowicz and Stanisław Mroński. In 2024 he took part in the recording of the CD "Il Tempo Passa" with music by Joanna Wnuk-Nazarowa, which was nominated for the most prestigious music award in Poland - Fryderyk.

He is the laureate of guitar competitions in Zamość (1988), Warsaw (1989), Krakow (1990) and Tychy (1990). As a composer he made his debut in 2001 with Recitative and Aria and was awarded the second prize for it in V All-Polish Competition of Compositions for Classical Guitar.

In 1993 he graduated with honours from the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, where he studied under the guidance of Professor Alina Gruszka. In 2006 he obtained a doctoral degree, followed by a postdoctoral degree in 2014. In 2022 he received the title of Professor of Art.

Marek Nosal is a professor at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, where he also serves as Dean of the Instrumental Faculty and Head of the Guitar and Harp Department. Since 2015 he is artistic director of International Festival "Silesian Guitar Autumn" and Jan Edmund Jurkowski Memorial Competition in Tychy, Poland.

Marek Nosal plays on instruments made by Petr Matoušek, Karl-Heinz Roemmich, Godin. He uses D'Addario Strings.