Mateusz Krzyżowsk

Mateusz Krzyżowski was born in 1999 in Tychy (Poland). He started learning piano when he was 6 under the guidance of Prof. Jarosław Kwas. He continued his education in Feliks Rybicki Music School in Tychy, then he studied in Karol Szymanowski State Secondary School of Music in Katowice. His Professors were Bożena Furmańska, Lubow Nawrocka and Sebastian Nawrocki. Currently, he studies at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw in the class of Prof. Joanna Ławrynowicz-Just. He has taken part in piano masterclasses, among others in Nohant, Krefeld, Hamamatsu, Lusławice, Krynica-Zdrój,
Duszniki-Zdrój led by such prominent pedagogues as Dang thai Son, Stanislav Ioudenitch, Dina Yoffe, Wojciech Świtała, Janusz Olejniczak, Andrzej Jasiński, Karol Radziwonowicz, Andrzej Tatarski, Olga Łazarska.

Mateusz has won a number of prizes at national and international piano competitions. His latest are:
– 1st prize in the 12th International Piano Competition "Arthur Rubinstein in memoriam", special awards: Chopin prize, Szymanowski prize, the prize for the best performance of the concerto with orchestra,
– reaching 3rd stage in the 18th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition,
– 1st prize in the 49th Polish National Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition organized by The Fryderyk Chopin Institute,
– 2nd prize in the 1st edition of the Karol Szymanowski International Music Competition in Katowice,
– 3rd prize in the 1st edition of the Stanisław Moniuszko International Competition of Polish Music in Rzeszów,
– 1st prize and the special award from The Fryderyk Chopin Institute in the 6th International Piano Competition in Augustów,
– 1st prize in the 4th National Chopin Piano Competition in Turzno,
– Grand Prix in the International Music Competition “Kaunas Sonorum” in Lithuania,
– Grand Prix in the 3rd National Piano Competition in Trzciana,
– 1st prize in the 7th International Maurycy Moszkowski Piano Competition “Per aspera ad astra” in Kielce with the special award for the best presentation of a concerto with orchestra,
– 1st prize in the 4th Apolinary Szeluto National Piano Competition in Słupca,
– 1st prize in the 2nd National Piano Competition in Trzciana,
– 1st prize in the 11th International Piano Competition in Gorlitz/Zgorzelec.

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