Tatiana Stachak
Guitarist, composer and educator. Since 2021 she has been working with the Academy of Music in Cracow, where she teaches guitar teaching methodology.
Tatiana Stachak graduated from the Wrocław Academy of Music. She has won national and international guitar competitions, including 1st place at the National Guitar Competition in Konin (Poland, 1990), 2nd place at the International Guitar Competition in Frosinone (Italy, 1991) and 2nd place at the International Guitar Competition in Ingenio (Spain, 1995). In the years 1998-2005 she wrote articles on guitar literature and teaching methodology for the music magazine Świat Gitary.
Whilst still a student at the Academy of Music, she directed her interest toward the education of young children. Her experience in working with children has led to the publication of numerous educational titles for beginner and intermediate guitarists. EUTERPE has published Stachak’s series of duets Uczeń i Nauczyciel [Pupil and Teacher] (vol. 1-3), her collection of miniatures Zaproszenie do walca [Invitation to the Waltz], Znam i gram [I Play What I Know], Album z wariacjami [Album with Variations], two collections of carols - Pierwsza gwiazdka z gitarą [The Christmas Eve Star with the Guitar] and W dzień Bożego Narodzenia [In the Day of Christmas] - and, with Mirosław Drożdżowski, the publication Solo & Duo. Her textbooks Gitara pierwsza klasa [First Class Guitar] and Gitara ekstra klasa [Extra Class Guitar] have become a permanent fixture in the canon of music education in Poland, whilst gaining ever more recognition abroad. Stachak is also co-author of the series of textbooks for ear and rhythm training Nasza muzyka [Our Music] (vol. 1-6) and Nowy solfeż [New Solfeggio], prepared together with Ilona Tomera-Chmiel and Lidia Florek. In 2021 she published a textbook for ear training, Muzyczna pracownia 1 [Music Workshop 1], intended for students of music schools of the first degree.
She is currently actively engaged in educational activities; giving lectures and workshops in music schools, guitar courses and at festivals, and promoting her methods of teaching.
Cantabile – premiere in Lanckorona
2024-06-19
Tatiana Stachak’s latest publication – Cantabile – with guitar arrangements of 17 songs by Polish composers will have its premiere on July 23, 2024. On that day, within the XVII International Guitar Workshop and Terra Artis Festival in Lanckorona, there will be a meeting with the Author followed by a concert by the excellent guitarist Maria Korzeniowska, who will premiere the works. Let’s meet at Arka Cafe in Lanckorona at 7.30 pm. You can already listen to a recording of one of the works performed by the Author on her YouTube channel.
Premiere of the Music Workshop 2
2024-02-29
The second part of the Music Workshop [Muzyczna pracownia] textbook with ear training materials for young people was published in the fall of 2023. Tatiana Stachak has had a series of meetings with teachers from music schools in Poland. The favorable feedback from the recipients has motivated the author and the project’s consultant, Lidia Florek-Stokłosa, to work on a new series of publications for ear training for students of the 6-year section, using their original method From Step to Chord [Od stopnia do akordu].
From Tatiana Stachak’s Methodical Vademecum
2023-01-17
The experience gained from contacts with her students and future educators, inspired Tatiana Stachak to write a series of articles on guitar teaching. These texts have been published in the polish magazine Sześć Strun Świata (Six Strings of the World) since July 2021 in the series From Tatiana Stachak’s Methodical Vademecum.
Time for Blues
2022-10-18
In September 2022, the collection Frolics with Rythm (Hrátky s rytmem) was released. This edition was created on the initiative of the organizers of the Prague Guitar Forum festival, members of the Gitaromania association and the Bärenreiter Praha publishing house.
The collection contains 10. guitar miniatures by various authors, written on request. The task of the authors was to compose small didactic pieces, in which rhythm is the most prominent element. In the edition – next to the works by Š. Rak, S. Schmidt, P. Steidl and other artists from the Czech Republic and Germany there is Tatiana Stachak’s composition Time for Blues.
Lectures at the Academy of Music
2022-10-15
In 2021, Tatiana Stachak joined the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Cracow. She conducts methodology courses in teaching classical guitar. The aim of the classes (Fundamentals of Methodology and Instrumental Methodology) is to prepare students for teaching work, with a particular focus on how to guide students from the ground up and the simultaneous development of technique and musiciality. In addition to the theoretical preparation of future educators and the presentation of the pedagogical repertoire, the author shares in the classes her extensive experience in teaching the youngest children.
Etudes chosen by Trinity College London
2019-12-04
Country Etude and Kurpie Etude will be included into Trinity’s publications for Classical Guitar Exam Pieces for the period 2020-2023 (Grade 3 and Grade 5).
The pieces were originally published by Publishing House Euterpe last summer, in the series Characteristic Etudes.
Let us remind you that candidates who passed the exam in the last three years performed Tatiana’s Parisian Waltz from the collection Invitation to the Waltz.
Premiere: Chinese editions of books by Tatiana Stachak
2018-10-01
Tatiana Stachak will give a lecture on her teaching method at the Guitar Festival of Shanghai Conservatory of Music on October 12, at 10 a.m.
On the same day at the Music China fair it will be a book launch of the chinese editions of the First Class Guitar and Extra Class Guitars textbooks (Shanghai New International Expo Centre Hall E3, Shanghai Music Publishing House stand D01, at 2.30 p.m.).
Tatiana will also meet guitarists in Jinan (October 16, 2018) and Jinhua (October 18, 2018): she will lead the workshops by noon and the masterclasses in the afternoon.
”Characteristic Études” – premiere in Lanckorona
2018-07-09
Young musicians will have the opportunity to experience an unusual summer adventure once again in a charming corner of Malopolska, in Lanckorona. The International Guitar Workshops have been organized there for 11 years. This year, among the lecturers there are: Piotr Domagała, Iwona Grabowska (leader of the guitar orchestra), Michał Nagy, Marek Nosal, Andrzej Olewiński, Michał Pindakiewicz, Paweł Kwaśny, Leszek Potasiński, Petr Saidl, Marcin Siatkowski, Aleksander Wilgos and Tatiana Stachak. Students can also take part in the harp workshops led by Arianna Savall, choral classes and improvisation workshops under the direction of Petter Udland Johansen and poetry classes with Bronisław Maj.
We warmly invite you to a meeting with Tatiana Stachak (Cafe Arka, July 18th, 2018, 5:00 PM). The guitarist will present her latest compositions – Characteristic Études. These are carefully thought-out, easy and nice to play pieces, although they are dedicated to improve playing technique. The etudes will be published in two notebooks.
See you in Lanckorona!
[UPDATE] Gallery from the performance (photo: Ewelina Stępień)
”Carmen – Tango Waltz” in ABRSM Guitar exam syllabus
2018-04-03
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We are pleased to inform you that one of the guitar pieces by Tatiana Stachak ”Carmen – Tango Waltz” from the collection ”Invitation to the Waltz” has been selected to a new guitar exam syllabus and will be published in ABRSM Guitar Exam Pieces 2019, Grade 5.
New book by Tatiana Stachak
Piece by Tatiana Stachak in Trinity College syllabus
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WORKSHOPS AND LECTURES
workshops at music schools and at guitar festivals and courses
Tatiana Stachak’s lessons for guitar class students and her lectures and master classes held as part of guitar courses and festivals have for years enjoyed great popularity.
private lessons in Kraków and on-line
Both beginners and advanced guitarists can develop their guitar-playing skills under the professional direction of Tatiana Stachak. In these lessons, modern methods and teaching materials are used, including the textbooks for beginners and intermediates First Class Guitar and Extra Class Guitar (publications approved for school use by the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage). The varied repertoire is tailored to students of all ages and of varied musical interests and skill levels.
