The musical image of Bydgoszcz is completed by the F. Nowowiejski Bydgoszcz Academy of Music whose most famous graduate is Rafał Blechacz – winner of the 15th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition. Concerts by students and teachers of this school, like the series "The Academy in historic monuments," are permanently etched into the city's cultural calendar. The Music District of Bydgoszcz is a truly unique place, the only one of its type in Poland. It consists of three institutions: Pomeranian Philharmonic, the Academy of Music and the Complex of Music Schools. Immersed in the greenery of a park the buildings of these institutions, the busts and statues of composers and the great architecture of the nearby houses and villas are the object of admiration of many Polish and foreign guests.
