Konstanty Wileński

Konstanty Wileński (born Kostyantyn Mykhailovych Vilensky Ukrainian: Костянтин Михайлович Віленський 25 December 1949 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) is a Ukrainian and Polish pianist, composer and jazz musician.

Born to a family of Kiev musicians, he is a grandson (by adoption) of Illya Vilensky (1896–1975), the first director of the Kiev Philharmonic Hall and founder of three musical theaters. His parents, Mykhailo Vilensky and Yelyzaveta Rostkovska, were choreographers. In 1974 he graduated from the Kiev Conservatory and in 1978 completed his postgraduate studies at the same Conservatorium. Since 1983 he was a lecturer of harmony, orchestration, and composition in the same conservatoire. In 1995–2001 he was a musical director of the Stefan Żeromski Theater in Kielce (Poland). He has eight albums of his own musical works.

Since 1995 he has resided in Kielce, Poland, and he obtained Polish citizenship in 2002.[1]

References

"Ewa Ziółkowska, Nie strzelajcie do pianisty, Słowo Ludu, 13–14 kwietnia 2002, Nr 86" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 October 2011. Retrieved 14 August 2008.

External links

Personal site (in English and Polish)
K. Vilensky plays G. McHugh's I Can't Give You Anything But Love on YouTube

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[1] "Ewa Ziółkowska, Nie strzelajcie do pianisty, Słowo Ludu, 13–14 kwietnia 2002, Nr 86" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 October 2011. Retrieved 14 August 2008.