Waldemar Martynel

Ballett-Korrepetitor

Waldemar Martynel (*1962) graduated with honors in his hometown of Gdansk with Prof. J. Sulikowski. Afterwards he successfully attended the master class with Viktor Mierzanoff at the Moscow Conservatoirum. During his studies he already acted as a singer and pianist of a professional chamber orchestra and made appearances with it at festivals and tours through Western Europe.

As a harpsichordist with the Polish Chamber Philharmonic, he gave numerous solo and chamber concerts in Poland, the former USSR, and Great Britain, and made appearances on Polish radio and television. In 1986, he recorded a recording of works by Chopin, Liszt and Rachmaninoff for a state record label, Polskie Nagrania, with the National Philharmonic Orchestra in Warsaw. He also worked as a jazz pianist on American luxury cruises for over three years before being engaged as a ballet and solo repetiteur at the Staatstheater Koblenz from 1989 to 1997, where he excelled as the director of various musical productions. In this context he had guest appearances at the Salzburg Festival, solo and chamber concerts, as well as song recitals with important artists such as Rene Kollo, Herbert Becker and Manfred Schenk. Since 1997 Martynel has worked as a ballet repetiteur at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden. Under Ben von Cauwenberg and Stefan Thoss, Waldemar Martynel took on soloist tasks, as well as the musical direction of many productions. Among others were the piano concertos with orchestra by Fazil Say, Philip Glass, Mikolaj Górecki and Witold Lutoslawski. For Valery Panov, he played a two-hour piano program of works by Rachmaninov for an evening of ballet, “Three Sisters.” For Edward Clug, he played piano works by Chopin for the ballet “Ssss.” For Tim Plegge’s production of The Nutcracker, he interpreted pieces from Tchaikovsky’s work in jazzy variations on the Hammond organ. Waldemar Martynel is also active in the orchestras of the Hessian State Theater in Wiesbaden and Darmstadt as a chamber musician and soloist for various guest artists.

 

Prizes:

Special prize for the best accompaniment at the Festival of Contemporary Music in 1979, winner of the Piano Competition Young Pianists in Gdansk in 1980, Honorary Prize of the International Chopin Society in the same year, Special Prize of the Polish Piano Competition with composition by Karol Szymanowski in Lodz in 1983, 1st place at the Polish Piano Festival in Slupsk in 1985, scholarship holder of the Richard Wagner Foundation Bayreuth in 1985.