Participants - Pianists

Weronika Górska-Mikosz studied at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice and the Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien with Markus Prause, and she is now studying for her Master’s degree at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice with Zbigniew Raubo and Łukasz Trepczyński. She also perfects her chamber music skills under the guidance of Regina Michalak, Magdalena Duś and Tomasz Miczka. The artist has taken part in masterclasses given by Andrzej Jasiński, Tamás Ungár, Alicja Paleta-Bugaj, Jerzy Sterczyński, Anna Malikova, Olga Rusina, Anna Wesołowska-Firlej and Alexei Orlovetski.

Iijima Satoshi graduated from Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo. He has gone on to study for a doctoral degree with Ichiro Kato and Kayo Miki at the same institution. The artist has taken part in masterclasses conducted by Pascal Devoyon, Michel Béroff, Sergei Dorensky, Andrey Pisarev, Pavel Nersessian, Natalia Trull, Peter Efler and Akira Wakabayashi.

Serafim Ivanov completed studies at the Odessa National Music Academy with Anatoly Kardoshev, Tatiana Shevchenko and Oleksiy Botvinov. He is now a guest student of the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg under the care of Hubert Rutkowski and Gordon Kampe (composition).

Kiryl Keduk graduated from the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, where he studied with Piotr Paleczny. He also studied at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester with Graham Scott and at the Accademia Pianistica Internazionale in Imola with Boris Petrushansky. He has recorded an album titled My Polish Diary for the Delos label.

Maciej Kiełpiński studied with Milena Kędra at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Kraków. He has trained at masterclasses offered by Mariola Cieniawa-Puchała, Olga Łazarska, Beata Bilińska, Elżbieta Karaś-Krasztel, Marian Sobula, Andrzej
Pikul, Daniel Blumenthal, Jordi Camell, José Maria Curbelo, Geoffrey Govier and Pascal Le Corre.

Krzysztof Kozłowski was a student of Anna Jastrzębska-Quinn at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. He also undertook postgraduate studies with Andrzej Jasiński at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. The artist has recorded several albums in collaboration with the Hashtag Ensemble (Visegrad Songs, Trash Music, Network Music”, #Witkacy).

Linda Lee studied with Aviram Reichert at Seoul National University. She is now continuing her music education with Boris Berman and Wei-Yi Yang at Yale School of Music.

Maryia Muryhina completed the Ryhor Shyrma State College of Music in Brest. She went on to study at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice with Joanna Domańska. She perfected her skills during workshops with Ivo Kahánek and Jonathan Powell.

Danylo Saienko was a student of Josef Ermin at the Lviv National Music Academy named after Mykola Lysenko. He also completed studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg with Anna Vinnitskaya and at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Rostock with Matthias Kirschnereit.

Julian Stanny studies with Mariola Cieniawa Puchała at the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Kraków. He has also perfected his piano skills with Bradley Bolen, Marek Żebrowski, Mirosław Herbowski, Milena Kędra, Zbigniew Raubo and Zofia Antes.

Georgi Vasilev is a student of the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz. He obtained his bachelor’s degree after studying with Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń, and he is now doing his Master’s under the guidance of Paweł Wakarecy. The artist perfected his skills with Ludmil Angelov at New Bulgarian University in Sofia. He has also appeared at masterclasses offered by Dmitri Bashkirov, Kevin Kenner, Naum Grubert, Giuseppe Guarrera, Alexis Golovin, Jan Bartoš and Bozhidar Noev.

I prize – 20 000 EUR

Additional and special prizes

1000 euros – sponsored by Margot Magin – Miłosz Magin’s daughter and Honorary President of the Miłosz Magin Foundation for the best performance of the Piano Concerto No. 2 for piano, strings and timpani by Miłosz Magin in the final stage of the competition

Concert prizes:

Krzysztof Penderecki European Centre for Music in Lusławice 

Podkarpacka Foundation for the Development of Culture in Sanok 

Henryk Mikołaj Górecki Silesian Philharmonic in Katowice

Capella Cracoviensis 

Artur Rubinstein Philharmonic in Łódź 

Polish Music Association in Cracow 

Jan Wachowski studied piano with Elżbieta Karaś-Krasztel and Konrad Skolarski. He studied also composition with Paweł Łukaszewski at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. He continues his studies at the same institution: piano with Konrad Skolarski and chamber music with Katarzyna Jankowska-Borzykowska and Łukasz Chrzęszczyk. The artist has taken part in masterclasses conducted by Nikolai Demidenko, Pavel Gililov, Philippe Giusiano, Krzysztof Jabłoński, Dina Yoffe, Kevin Kenner, Tobias Koch and Wojciech Świtała.

Tomasz Zając graduated from the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, where he studied piano with Alicja Paleta-Bugaj and Agnieszka Przemyk-Bryła, and piano chamber music with Katarzyna Jankowska-Borzykowska. He completed his postgraduate studies at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Graz with Markus Schirmer. He continues his postgraduate music education at the same academy practising piano chamber music with Chia Chou. He has also perfected his skills under the guidance of Elżbieta Tarnawska, Andrzej Tatarski, Dina Yoffe, Mamiko Sudo, Philippe Giusiano, Tamás Ungar, Andrzej Jasiński, Tobias Koch, Markus Schirmer and Lilya Zilberstein. The artist has recorded two CD albums: Violin &Piano with Natalia Walewska on the violin and Slavic Impressions, his solo effort on a period piano

Natalia Zaleska graduated from the Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk, where she was a student of Bogdan Kułakowski. She has perfected her piano skills during masterclasses given by such artists as Andrzej Jasiński, Dina Yoffe, Viera Nosina, Alexei Orlovetski, Bernd Goetzke, Elżbieta Stefańska and Krzysztof Jabłoński.