Rafał Blechacz

Poland Birthdate: 26.01.1991

Competitor number: 4

Born on 26 January 1991, he is a student of Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń and Katarzyna Rajs at the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz. He has taken part in masterclasses given by Nelson Goerner, Alberto Nosè, Ewa Pobłocka, Elżbieta Tarnawska, Mikhail Voskresensky, Janusz Olejniczak and Dmitry Alexeev. His is a prize-winner of the Vietri sul Mare Piano Competition in Italy, where he also gained a distinction for his performance of a work by Fryderyk Chopin, and the Polish Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. He won Third Prize in the Bydgoszcz Chamber Tournament and qualified for the semi-final of an international piano competition in Italy in the Classical and Romantic concerto category. He has received grants from Agrafka Muzyczna and the Marshal of Kujawy-Pomerania Voivodeship. Since 2012, he has been working with the Pomeranian Philharmonic. He has performed in concert at home and abroad, including at the Chopin Museum in Warsaw and in Żelazowa Wola, Szafarnia, Ostromecko and Hastings. He has also taken part in the ‘Chopin and his Europe’ festival in Warsaw, in a concert devoted to Jan Ekier.

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