Photo by Jan Gawdzik

Photo by Wojciech Baran

He is a student of Wojciech Świtała at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. He has taken part in master classes with such eminent pianists as Daniil Trifonov, Tobias Koch, Nikolai Demidenko, Bernd Goetzke, Anna Malikova, Andrzej Jasiński and Józef Stompel. Dziwior won the Fourth Prize at the National Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Katowice in 2016, the Third Prize at the International Piano Competition ‘Halina Czerny-Stefańska in Memoriam’ in Poznań in 2017 and the First Prize at the International Competition in Livorno, Italy in 2018. Last year, he also received a scholarship from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage for his outstanding artistic achievements.

He has appeared with recitals at such venues as the Fryderyk Chopin Museum in Warsaw, Łazienki Park (Royal Baths Park) also in Warsaw and the Concert Hall of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (NOSPR) in Katowice. In 2015, he performed at the Chopin Festival in Nohant, France and was accompanied by Das Deutsche Sinfonie-Orchester at the Berlin Philharmonic Hall during the orchestra’s inaugural concert in the new season. He has appeared alongside Silesian, Podkarpacka and Świętokrzyska philharmonic orchestras, as well as with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice.

PROGRAMME

First stage

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Légende in A flat major, Op. 16 No. 1

Karol Szymanowski

Study in E flat minor, Op. 4 No. 1

Fryderyk Chopin

Etude in F major, Op. 10 No. 8

Grażyna Bacewicz

Vivace from Two Studies for Double Notes

Stefan Kisielewski

Danse vive

Second stage

Ludomir Różycki

Italie, Op. 50

    Ave Maria

    Campo santo

    Dogaressa. Barcarolle

    La mort de Béatrice Cenci

Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński

The spinntress by Stanisław Moniuszko

Karol Szymanowski

Variations on a Polish Folk Theme in B minor, Op. 10

    Andante doloroso rubato

    Theme. Andante semplice

    Variation I. Meno mosso

    Variation II. Agitato

    Variation III. Lento. Mesto ma poco agitato

    Variation IV. Allegro molto agitato

    Variation V. Andantino

    Variation VI. Andante dolcissimo

    Variation VII. Più mosso

    Variation VIII. Marcia funebre

    Variation IX. Più mosso

    Variation X. Finale. Allegro vivo

Final

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 17

    Allegro

    Romanze. Andante

    Finale. Allegro molto vivace