Photo by Paulina Sobczak

Photo by Paulina Sobczak

She graduated with a Bachelor’s degree and distinction from the Academy of Music in Gdańsk, where she studied with Waldemar Wojtal and continued her music education, in 2014-15, at the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna with Stefan Vladar and subsequently at the Royal Academy of Music in London (with Ian Fountain), where she now works as Assistant. In 2016, she was the winner, and was awarded four special prizes at, the Tallinn International Piano Competition. In 2011, she won the Second Prize and the Jerzy Waldorff Special Prize at the International Competition for Young Pianists ‘Arthur Rubinstein in Memoriam’ in Bydgoszcz. She also won The Worshipful Company of Musicians-Harriet Cohen Bach Prize in 2015, the Second Prize and the Audience Prize at the Sheepdrove Piano Competition in 2016 and the Third Prize at the Sussex International Piano Competition in 2015.

She has performed in concert in Poland and abroad, also with the accompaniment of such orchestras as the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Worthing Symphony Orchestra and Sinfonia Baltica. She has also taken part in numerous piano courses conducted by Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Steven Isserlis, Aleksiej Orłowiecki, Andrzej Jasiński, Imogen Cooper and Dina Yoffe.

PROGRAMME

First stage

Fryderyk Chopin

Etude in A minor, Op. 25 No. 11

Karol Szymanowski

Etude B flat minor, Op. 4 No. 3

Grażyna Bacewicz

Study No. 4 from Ten Studies

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Humoresques de concert, Op. 14 Book I (à l’antique)

    Minuet in G major

    Sarabande in B minor

    Caprice in G major

Second stage

Artur Malawski

Mountaineers’ Triptych

Władysław Żeleński

Two Mazurkas, Op. 31

    No. 1 in C sharp minor

    No. 2 in A major

Grażyna Bacewicz

Sonata No. 2

    Maestoso. Agitato

    Largo

    Vivo

Final

Grażyna Bacewicz

Piano Concerto

    Allegro moderato

    Andante