Biography
In 1967, Rudnik graduated from the Electronics Department of the Warsaw Institute of Technology (Politechnika). He began working for the Polish Radio in Warsaw in 1955, and from 1958 he collaborated with the Experimental Studio of the Polish Radio. Between 1967-68 the composer was employed at the Westdeutscher Rundfunk Studio for Electronic Music in Cologne. Rudnik taught at the Music Academy of Warsaw, where he conducted classes in electroacoustic music technology, and between the years 1994 and 1995, he lectured at Warsaw’s Centre for Journalism.
Next to Andrzej Rakowski, Janusz Piechurski and Krzysztof Szlifirski, Rudnik was one of the first producers of electroacoustic music in Poland, and the co-creator of the so-called Polish school of electroacoustic music. He collaborated with numerous outstanding Polish artists on music installations and film soundtrack production. Some of the musicians Rudnik worked for are: Krzysztof Penderecki, Andrzej Markowski, Włodzimierz Kotoński, Bogusław Schaeffer, Stanisław Radwan, Andrzej Dobrowolski, Arne Nordheim.
To date, he has authored and realised musical scores for productions of the Polish Radio Theatre and the Television Theatre, with nearly three hundred film soundtracks to crown that score. His compositions, as well as the films with his sound scapes were broadcast by radio and TV channels in Poland and abroad.
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Eugeniusz Rudnik has been honoured with numerous prizes. A collage illustration for the ballet film entitled Gry (Games) was presented with the Prix Italia in 1970. In 1972, Rudnik received the I prize for the Mobile composition for tape, in 1973, he was presented with the III prize for Ostinato, and in 1984, the II award for Homo ludens, a radio ballet. In 1993 the Mobile piece once again won him an award, with the Euphonie d’Or awarded to him at the International Electroacoustic Music Competition in Bourges, France. In 2002, together with Maria Brzezinska, Rudnik received the I prize of te 17th International Catholic Festival of Films and Multimedia, as well as the Dwa Teatry festival in Gdańsk.
Eugeniusz Rudnik was also honoured with the I degree Award of the Radio and Television Comittee Chairman for the entirety of his life’s achievement and merits in the field of electroacoustic music in radio and television. In 2000, Rudnik was presented with the Polish state medal, the Commandor’s Cross of Poland’s Resurrection -Krzyż Kawalerski Order Odrodzenia Polski.