Composer; born June 22, 1930, in Grodzisk Mazowiecki, died February 28, 2017. In 1954-60, he studied composition in Tadeusz Szeligowski’s class at the State Higher School of Music in Warsaw. He was one of the initiators and organizers of the Polish Jeunesses Musicales movement, in which he was active from 1958 to 1962. He also founded the Carmina Academica music publishing house, where he was the editor. He received many awards for his compositional work: in 1960, he received the Ministry of Culture and Art Award “for his persistent and fruitful work in promoting culture” and an award at the Grunwald 1960 competition for his Warmia-Masuria Suite for solo voices and mixed a cappella choir (1960); in 1961, he received an award at the Young Composers’ Competition of the Polish Composers’ Union for Canti al fresco for 9 female voices and instrumental ensemble (1961); in 1962 – first prize at the International Composers’ Competition in Prague for Concertino da camera for chamber orchestra (1961), in 1963 – third prize (first and second prizes were not awarded) at the Grzegorz Fitelberg Competition in Katowice for Ornamenti for flute, clarinet, bassoon, and strings (1963). In 1992, Leoncjusz Ciuciura was named Man of the Year and honored with the Medal of the 20th Century for his achievements in the field of contemporary music by the International Biographical Centre Cambridge. In 2004, the American Biographical Institute awarded him the honorary title of Great Minds of the 21st Century.
Source: Polmic.pl (www.polmic.pl/pl/encyklopedia/osobowe/c/ciuciura-leoncjusz)
