Jacek Muzyk
Jacek Muzyk joined the music faculty at Buffalo State College in 2006 as a lecturer in applied french horn. Born and raised in Poland, Jacek began playing piano at the age of seven. Although he became a proficient jazz pianist by his late-teens, he began to study french horn exclusively at age 18.
After graduating from the Academy of Music in Krakow, Poland, where Krzysztof Penderecki served as rector, Mr.Muzyk completed a second master's degree at the Mannes College of Music in New York, where he studied with David Jolley. Muzyk received further french horn instruction at the Juilliard School of Music with William Purvis and at Rice University with William VerMeulen.
Upon completing his musical studies in the United States, Mr. Muzyk returned to Poland, and accepted full-time performing positions with Sinfonia Varsovia, the Polish Chamber Philharmonic, the Polish Radio Orchestra, the National Philharmonic, and the Krakow Philharmonic.
In 1999, Muzyk won the principal horn post for Kristian Zimerman's Polish Festival Orchestra. This select group of Poland's finest musicians, toured Europe and the United States, played over 40 performances of Chopin's concertos, and won a Grammy Award.
In 2002, Muzyk moved to the United States to perform with the Houston Grand Opera and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, before being appointed as the principal horn with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.
Muzyk has made guest and solo appearances with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Houston Symphony, the Pittsburgh Symphony and other U.S. and European orchestras. Muzyk has made numerous solo recordings under the Polish Radio label, recorded a CD which boasts all of Mozart's horn concerti, and recorded two CDs with Zbigniew Zuk which feature Vivaldi's and Mozart's double horn concertos.
