A concert of piano music for all!

Grzegorz Niemczuk, an accomplished pianist, youtuber and influencer, in addition to performing music, also introduces the audience to the world of the pieces - in simple words, telling them about them before they are played.

Let yourself be introduced to the fascinating world of classical music and experience pieces of piano music by understanding their message and inner content. At this concert, Grzegorz Niemczuk will introduce you to some of the deepest, richest and most moving music written by Frédéric Chopin in the last years of his life.

In this music, Chopin's genius reaches its peak. We will hear the atmospheric Nocturnes, the longing Mazurkas, the passionate Barcarolle, the last Waltzes, the poetic Ballade and one of the greatest masterpieces - the Polonaise-Fantaisie - Chopin's musical testament.

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GRZEGORZ NIEMCZUK Hailed by influential Japanese critics as the 'modern incarnation of Chopin' (Nobuko Fujimaki, Chopin Magazine, Tokyo, August 2017), he has built an international reputation as an outstanding expert and interpreter of the music of Fryderyk Chopin, to the study of which he has devoted many years of his artistic life. He is one of a small group of pianists who have the complete works of Fryderyk Chopin in their repertoire. To date, the pianist has given over 500 recitals and concerts, visiting 38 countries on six continents.

Grzegorz Niemczuk has a very extensive repertoire of over 250 solo works and 28 concertos for piano with orchestra from the Baroque era to 20th and 21st century music. He belongs to a small group of pianists who have all the works of Fryderyk Chopin in their repertoire.

He is a winner of many piano competitions. In 2013, he won - as the first Pole ever - the 'International Carnegie Hall Concerto Debut Competition' in New York. This prestigious award opened the way for him to Carnegie Hall, where in February 2013 he had the opportunity to present Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21 by F. Chopin, receiving excellent reviews. In 2016, he was a finalist and winner of the Special Prize at the 2016 International Busan Maru Music Festival in South Korea. He is also the winner of the 40th F. Chopin National Piano Competition in Warsaw in 2010 and international competitions in Italy and Belgium.

During the years of the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-2022), Grzegorz Niemczuk created an unprecedented and unique in the world project of recording film-lectures about all the works of Fryderyk Chopin, intended primarily for music lovers wishing to gain a deeper understanding of the masterpieces of the most outstanding Polish composer. More than 330 episodes have been produced in two language versions (Polish and English), published on YouTube and on the artist's Facebook page.

Grzegorz Niemczuk is a graduate of the Academy of Music in Katowice in the class of Professor Józef Stompel and a multiple participant in the International Keyboard Institute & Festival in New York (Mannes College of Music), where he studied extensively under such eminent artists as Jeffrey Swann (Grzegorz Niemczuk's artistic mentor from 2009 to 2013), Jerome Rose, Menahem Pressler, Philippe Entremont, David Dubal and Cyprien Katsaris.