Education
At the age of three, Dyczko began attending singing and piano lessons, adding flute to his repertoire in his second year of primary school. Dyczko graduated from the Saxophone Department under the supervision of Bernard Steuer at Karol Szymanowski Second Degree State Music School in Katowice. He is currently studying under the supervision of Paweł Gusnar at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw.
Competitions
In 2013, he won the International Marco Fiorindo Saxophone Competition in Turin, and in 2014, the 11th International Saxophone Festival in Przeworsk and the Silesian Jazz Festival in Katowice. In 2015, the young musician won the 10th Stefania Woytowicz National Competition for Young Instrumentalists in Jasło. Dyczko stated for the jazzsoul.pl website:
Some people's attitudes towards contests and wins are strange to me. They think of music competitions as of the Olympic Games where one has to beat the opponents and be named afterwards as better than the rest. It comes from the fact that people do not know the mechanisms that stand behind competitions and classical music itself.
In March 2016, Dyczko won the first prize at the European Saxophone Forum in Wrocław, while a month later became the Young Musician 2016 and a Polish representative at the 18th Eurovision Young Musicians Award in Cologne. At both competitions, he performed André Waignein's Rhapsody for Alto Saxophone. He won the Eurovision Young Musicans Award, receiving ten thousand euro and an invitation to perform together with the Westdeutscher Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra in Cologne. Dyczko stated:
We have to be aware of the fact that every success we achieve needs to be prepared one step at a time. To win at Eurovision helped me get to another level but there are still many levels ahead of me.
Source: press materials, jazzsoul.pl
Author: Filip Lech, December 2016, translated by AW, December 2016
