Dymmek, Dymek, Zbigniew, *29 March 1896 Warsaw, †24 April 1948 Katowice, Polish pianist, conductor, teacher and composer.
He studied piano at the St. Petersburg Conservatory and continued his studies at the Warsaw Conservatory (with A. Michałowski and H. Melcer – piano, R. Statkowski – composition, E. Młynarski – conducting). He completed his composition studies in Leipzig, and his conducting studies as an assistant to A. Toscanini at La Scala in Milan. In 1919, he won the first prize at the I. Paderewski Piano Competition in Lublin. He was the conductor of the Pomeranian Opera in 1925–27 and a professor at the Conservatory of the Music Society in Kraków in 1928–39 (piano class, chamber conducting). In 1930–39 a professor at the Silesian Conservatory of Music in Katowice. He performed as a pianist and conductor. He returned to Katowice in 1945, where he took up the position of dean of the Instrumental Department of the State Higher School of Music; there he organised the orchestra of the Musicians’ Trade Union (currently the Silesian State Philharmonic). On 14 June 1945, he led a performance of S. Moniuszko’s Halka, inaugurating the Silesian Opera.
Literature: Opera Śląska 1945–1955, Katowice 1956; 30 lat PWSM w Katowicach 1929–1959, ed. L. Markiewicz, Kraków 1960; Kraków muzyczny 1918–1939, ed. M. Drobner and T. Przybylski, Kraków 1980.
