page_title: Poles in the United Kingdom
section_title: Music
hierarchical_section_title: Poles in the United Kingdom / Notable persons / Music
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Ирена Андерс (псевдоним Рената Богданьска) - польская киноактриса, певица
context_page_description: British Poles, alternatively known as Polish-British people or Polish Britons, are Poles who are citizens of the United Kingdom. This includes people born in the UK who are of Polish descent, and Polish-born people who reside in the UK. There are approximately 800,000 people of Polish nationality in the UK, making them one of the largest ethnic minorities in the country alongside Indians, Pakistanis, Germans and the Irish. The Polish language is the second-most spoken language in England, and the third-most spoken in the UK after English and Welsh. About 1% of the UK population speaks Polish.
  Exchanges between the two countries date back to medieval times, when Britain, Europe's chief power, and Poland, then one of Europe's largest countries, were linked by trade and diplomacy. A notable 16th-century Polish resident in England was the Protestant convert, John Laski, who influenced the course of the English Reformation and helped in establishing the Church of England.
context_section_description: Irena Anders (aka Renata Bogdańska) – singer, actress, Poland's "answer to Vera Lynn", and wife of General Anders
  Katy Carr – musician, songwriter and aviator
  Frédéric Chopin – virtuoso pianist and composer a year before his death, toured England and Scotland in 1848, inspired by his Scottish pupil, Jane Stirling
  Chris Dreja – guitarist with The Yardbirds
  Janick Gers – guitarist in Iron Maiden
  Ida Haendel (1928–2020) – virtuoso violinist awarded CBE
  Josef Hassid – violin prodigy who came to study in England
  J. J. Jeczalik – musician
  Paul Kletzki (1900–1973) – Polish-born international conductor associated with the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
  Alfred Orda – operatic baritone
  Andrzej Panufnik – orchestral conductor and composer
  Roxanna Panufnik – composer daughter of Andrzej
  Marjan Rawicz – virtuoso pianist, half of the popular Piano duo, Rawicz and Landauer
  Arthur Rubinstein (1887–1982) – pianist and honorary KBE
  Janek Schaefer – sound artist
  Halina Czerny-Stefańska – pianist, juror of the Leeds International Piano Competition, emerged as the real pianist of the EMI Dinu Lipatti recording mix-up
  Leopold Stokowski – orchestral conductor
  Maria Szymanowska – virtuoso pianist and composer, gave concerts in England in 1818
  André Tchaikowsky (1935–1982) – pianist, composer. He left his skull to the Royal Shakespeare Company
  Chris Urbanowicz – guitar player in Editors
  Tracey Ullman – comedian, actor and singer
  Henryk Wieniawski – violinist and composer played with the Beethoven Quartet Society in London
caption: Irena Anders, as Renata Bogdanska, 1940s
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