Photo by Piotr Droździk

Photo by Piotr Droździk

Honourable mention – 1,500 euros

Special Prizes:

Polish Institute in Saint Petersburg – invitation to a recital performance in Saint Petersburg at the end of the Moniuszko Year 2019

Magazyn Presto – prize of year-long media support

Tymoteusz Bies

He is prizewinner at numerous piano and chamber music competitions, including the National Fryderyk Chopin Competition (the Fifth Prize in 2013 and the Second Prize in 2017), the Forum Per Tasti (the First Prize in 2018), the Friuli Venezia Giulia (the First Prize in 2018) and the Karol Szymanowski Competition in Katowice (the First Prize and a special prize for the best performance of a work by Szymanowski in 2018). In 2015, he qualified for the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw and he reached the semi-finals of the Ignacy Jan Paderewski International Piano Competition in the following year.

Tymoteusz Bies has appeared as a pianist alongside a number of orchestras, such as the Silesian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Opole Philharmonic Orchestra, the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (NOSPR). He has appeared in concert both in Poland (e.g. at the seat of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice and at the National Philharmonic Hall in Warsaw) and abroad (in Saint Petersburg, Paris, Cologne, Rome, Hanover and Venice), as well as at the Chopin Festivals in Duszniki-Zdrój and Warsaw (‘Chopin and His Europe’).