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Przemyslaw Witek

Pianist born in 1985 in Wałbrzych, where he began and continued his musical education at the State School of Music of the 1st and 2nd degree. In 2009 he graduated with honours from the class of Professor Alicja Kledzik at the I.J. Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań. He also studied at the Universität der Künste in Berlin and the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne. In 2009, he started working at his alma mater. From 2015 to 2017, he was an artistic trainee under Prof. Krzysztof Jablonski at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. Since 2015, the year in which he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Musical Art, he has been employed as an assistant professor in the Piano Department of the Academy of Music in Poznań.

At the age of nineteen, he was already winning top prizes at international piano competitions: 1st place at the International Piano Competition in Rome (2004) and two Special Prizes at the International Piano Competition "Artur Rubinstein in memoriam" in Bydgoszcz (2004). The following years brought him the first prize at the International Piano Competition in Val Tidone (2005) and Racconigi (2006) in Italy, as well as the Special Prize at the International N. Rubinstein Chamber Music Competition in Moscow (2007). Przemysław Witek's competition achievements culminated in prizes won in 2008: 1st place and Best Virtuoso Award at the Adilia Alieva Competition in Gaillard, France, and 1st place and Best Polish Pianist Award at the "Halina Czerny Stefańska in memoriam" International Piano Competition in Poznań. These distinctions enabled him to record his debut CD and to begin concert activities at home and abroad.

Przemysław Witek has performed with the Amadeus Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra, Beethoven Academy Orchestra, as well as the Lower Silesian, Cracow, Koszalin, Lublin, Sudecka, Szczecin, Świętokrzyska Philharmonic Orchestras and the Płock Symphony Orchestra. He has cooperated with such conductors as Agnieszka Duczmal, Marek Pijarowski, Paweł Przytocki, Jacek Rogala, Ruben Silva, Jakub Chrenowicz, Przemysław Fiugajski, Paweł Kapuła, Marko Ivanovič, Grigorij Krasko or Mitsuyoshi Oikawa. He inaugurated the Mozart Virtuoso Orchestra's concert season in Tokyo (2017), the National Philharmonic of Montenegro (2013), the Sudeten Philharmonic (2010), and played at the Polish Piano Festival Finale in Slupsk (2009). He has made several concert tours in China. As a chamber musician he has cooperated with Anna Maria Staśkiewicz, Katarzyna Budnik, Zofia Kulisiewicz, Janusz Wawrowski, Marcin Markowicz, Bartosz Woroch, Benedict Klöckner and Jiří Kabat. He has performed in major cities in Poland, as well as abroad: in the United States, Japan, China, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, Spain, France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia.

He made archival recordings of Karol Szymanowski's works for Vatican Radio in 2004 and 2012. In March 2011, his debut album Décadence with compositions by Szymanowski and Rachmaninoff was released by Polish Radio and Ponte Art Production. In 2014, he performed the world premiere and recording (Polish Radio Lublin) of Andrzej Nikodemowicz's Piano Sonata No. 3 (1958), as well as the Polish premiere and recording of Mieczyslaw Weinberg's piano works - released in 2017 by the Academy of Music in Poznań. In 2016, he premiered Concerto alla polacca by Mikołaj Hertel, composed for the commission of the 50th Jubilee Polish Piano Festival in Słupsk. 

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