Victor Lubunksi

Victor Lubunksi aka (1895-1974) who served the (UMKC) Kansas City Conservatory for a nearly a third of its 100-year history as piano professor, director & artist in residence. Łabuński joined the school’s piano faculty in 1937 and then became the conservatory’s director in 1941, a position that he held until 1958. He was a great Polish-American Kansas City musician, as Łabuński helped educate and train hundreds of pianists and composers, many who became well-known performers and composers or respected piano teachers themselves. One his former students, Colombian pianist Blanka Uribe, Professor Emeritus at Vassar College, won an honorable mention at the 1965 International Chopin Competition in Warsaw.