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Polish guitarist Tomasz Fechner, who is currently pursuing his doctoral degree at the USC Thornton School of Music, will perform a program of all Polish music featuring solo guitar works by Aleksander Tansman, Roman Ryterband and Marek Pasieczny in USC’s Jeanette MacDonald Recital Hall on August 25.
Tomasz Fechner was born in Pleszew, Poland, in 1990 and started his music education at the age of seven. He received his Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees in classical guitar from the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań, where he studied with Piotr Zaleski.
Since 2001 he has participated in several guitar competitions throughout Europe and has received many accolades along the way, including third prize at the International Guitar Festival in Mottola (Italy) and third prize at Anna Amalia International Guitar Compatition in Weimar (Germany). In 2014 the Fulbright Commission awarded him a scholarship to the USC Thornton School of Music, where he currently studies with Los Angeles Guitar Quartet’s founding member William Kanengiser. From 2014-2016 he was a member of the Orpheo Guitar Quartet where he played the first guitar. Tomasz Fechner plays on the guitar made by Boguslaw Teryks op. 80 from 2002.