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The Polish-born American ethnomusicologist and concert pianist, Józef Marcin Pacholczyk, began his Arabic studies (Arabic path in Turkishology) at the University of Warsaw in 1955. In the 1959/1960 academic year, he obtained a scholarship to go to Indonesia, where he studied at the University of Jakarta for a year. After his return, in 1962 he defended his thesis ‘Leksykalne elementy arabskie w Sedjarah Melaju’ [in English: Lexical Arabic Elements in Sejarah Melayu] (his thesis supervisor was doc. dr Józef Bielawski) and became a master of oriental philology (MA). At the same time, in 1964, he graduated from the State Higher School of Music in Warsaw (Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw) in the piano class. While still a student, he taught Indonesian-Malay language, then (1960-1963) he taught him in Oriental studies as a teacher. In 1965, he became a doctoral student in Arabic studies - at the same time he published two dissertations included in the book Religie świata [in English: Religions of the World] by the Warsaw publishing house Iskry. In February 1966, he went on a scholarship to Cairo, after which he was on a scholarship from the Folklore Institute in Italy, but after completing it, he did not return to the country - it was then 1968. He received an American scholarship at the University of California in Los Angeles, the only center in the world specializing in Arabic music at the time.
In 1970, Józef Pacholczyk defended his doctoral dissertation “Regulative principles in the Koran chant of Shaikh ʻAbduʼl-Bāsiṭ ʻAbduʼṣ-Ṣamad: parts I and II” at University of California w Los Angeles (UCLA).
After defending his doctorate, Józef Pacholczyk started working in The University of California, Los Angeles, has held various scientific, didactic and administrative positions. He also became professor of ethnomusicology at the School of Music at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ottawa. From 1998 to 2003, Józef Pacholczyk was a professor at the University of Maryland. He taught folk music from the cultural zone of Islam (India; Indonesia); instrumentology (including performance of Javanese folk music and playing Indonesian instruments); new approaches to musical analysis; Indonesian gamelan performance and theory. He was a professor emeritus at the University of Maryland School of Music. He has held professorship and administrative positions at several universities: UCLA, University of Ottawa (Canada), University of Maryland, Baltimore and University of Maryland, College Park. He was the author of the postgraduate program in ethnomusicology at the University of Maryland in Baltimore County. He has guided 14 doctoral dissertations in ethnomusicology, and his students currently hold professorship and administrative positions at universities in the USA, Egypt, Turkey, Iran, Taiwan, Slovenia and Croatia. He has conducted many field studies in the Islamic world, from Indonesia to Central Asia (Indonesia, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, India (Kashmir), Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkey). The fruit of these experiences were master's seminars, which he conducted for many years, in methodology and techniques of field and laboratory research in ethnomusicology, including sound recording, photography and film / video. He was the author of many books and articles on various aspects of music, culture, literature and religion in various parts of the Muslim world, and the author of entries in The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music.
As a musician (including a pianist) Józef Pacholczyk performed in the USA, Europe (Poland and Italy), North Africa (Egypt) and Asia (Indonesia). He recorded for the Ethnodisc Classical label. He was a member of the Ethnomusicological Society in the USA.
A multi-talented, world-famous ethnomusicologist, lecturer at various universities in North America, author of important publications and performer of music - both classical (piano) and folk music (including Indonesian instruments). Józef Pacholczyk has made a dozen or so records of his musical performances, some of which can be found on the youtube.com channel. As a man - open, kind and helpful, with a great sense of humor, always smiling, erudite and passionate, he enjoyed the friendship and respect of his colleagues and students, and as an artist - great sensitivity, classically, but with great finesse and panache, interpreting the performed works. His Mozartiana was particularly successful. When he was able to come to the country, he maintained close contacts with the Academy of Chopin in Warsaw. His hobby was photography, he also used it as an element of musical, ethnographic and cultural documentation. He was a collector of Leica cameras.
Józef Pacholczyk was married twice, after the death of his first wife in 2013, he married Talitha (Boshoff) Pacholczyk, who cared for him until the last moments of his life. On March 18, 2021, Józef Pacholczyk, professor emeritus at the University of Maryland School of Music, passed away after almost six months of stay in a hospice in Tucson (Arizona), USA, where he lived permanently. His farewell took place on April 6, 2021 at the Tucson Cemetery.
Major publications:
Pacholczyk Józef M.: Regulative principles in the Koran chant of Shaikh ʻAbduʼl-Bāsiṭ ʻAbduʼṣ-Ṣamad: parts I and II, 1970/71. [dysertacja doktorska]
Pacholczyk Józef M.: Secular Classical Music in the Arabic Near East: line drawings by Jerome Kimberling, w: Musics of Many Cultures: An Introduction, Elizabeth May, Mantle Hood [eds.], University of California Press, 1980, 1983. Pierwsze wydanie zaopatrzono w CD z nagraniami, ss. 253-268.
Pacholczyk Józef M.: Ṣūfyāna mūsīqī: the classical music of Kashmir, Intercultural Music Studies, Max Peter Baumann [rd.], Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung, Berlin 1996.
Major recordings of classical music (piano)1:
J.S. Bach; Frédéric Chopin: Józef M Pacholczyk - piano, Tucson, Arizona: Ethnodisc, 2005, Classical series, v. 19, CD audio
D. Scarlatti: Sonatas: J. Pacholczyk – piano, Ethnodisc 2006.
P.I. Tchaikovsky: The seasons op. 37bis, J.M. Pacholczyk – piano, Ethnodisc Classical ECCD 05023-2, 2007 i 2013.
L.v. Beethoven, Piano sonatas, Józef M Pacholczyk – piano, Ethnodisc, 2008.
F. Chopin: 4 Mazurkas, Józef Pacholczyk – piano, Ethnodisc Classical ECCD 05019-2
W.A. Mozart: Piano sonatas, J. Pacholczyk – piano, Ethnodisc Classical ECCD 05027-2, 2008.
W.A. Mozart, F. Chopin, S. Rachmaninov: Józef M Pacholczyk - piano, 2012.
J.S. Bach, Preludes and fugues from the well-tempered clavier , J. Pacholczyk – piano, Ethnodisc Classical ECCD 05021-2, 2012.
J. Pacholczyk had his own channel on youtube.com.2
1 Za: Józef Marcin Pacholczyk - Bach Discography (BCW) Dostęp: 4/22/2021
2 Jozef Pacholczyk, za: YouTube Dostęp: 2021-04-22. |
