Wojciech Rybicki

Wojciech Rybicki was born in 1942[1] in Tomaszów Lubelski. He comes from Sanok. In 1959 he graduated from high school in Sanok and piano class at the State Primary Music School. During high school he performed as a pianist in a jazz band. He graduated from the Faculty of Chemistry at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin (1966). He also completed postgraduate studies at Warsaw University of Technology (1988). While studying at MCSU he continued his musical education in piano at the Music High School in Lublin.

As a chemist he worked between 1966 -2003 in chemical factory: in Puławy and since 1971 in Włocławek (Anwil SA company), where he lives with his wife Barbara - a chemical engineer. His children, Elizabeth and Jacek, M.Sc. in computer science carry out his professional career in Warsaw. For his work in the Chemical Industry he was awarded state awards - the Golden Cross of Merit and the Bronze Cross of Merit and a silver badge of Merit for the Chemical Industry.

Since 1999 he composes classical music and piano entertainment. Starting from 2004 he issued 290 compositions in 26 albums in Contra Music Publisher in Warsaw (currently Nieporęt). Since 2005 he is owner of poetic-musical soirées in the music schools, clubs and houses of culture in Poland.

He is also a writer. During many years he was a member of the Association of Writers and Pomorsko-Kujawski Włocławek Writers Union. He created 320 pieces that were issued in four volumes. His subsequent poems were published in regional newspapers and monthly Acanthus in Bydgoszcz. In 2014 he celebrated 15 years of work as a composer and 10 years of literary work.