Aurel Dawidiuk

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Aurel Dawidiuk (* 2000 in Hanover ) is a German pianist and organist .

Life

Jan-Aurel Dawidiuk began his musical training at the age of six with piano and violin. In 2014 he became a young student at the Institute for the Early Promotion of the Musically Gifted (IFF) at the University of Music, Drama and Media Hanover in the piano class of Konrad Maria Engel.Since 2016 he has been taking piano lessons with Roland Krüger and Gabriele Leporatti . He also received organ lessons from Martin Sander in Detmold.

Aurel Dawidiuk is the winner of the first prize, worth 10,000 euros, at the TONALi piano competition in Hamburg. In the TONALi finale in the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie he played Robert Schumann's piano concerto with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen under the direction of the Chinese conductor Elim Chan . In addition, he received the audience award, the Christoph Eschenbach award, the TONALiSTEN award, the Mieczysław Weinberg award, the special award of the Mariinsky Orchestra Saint Petersburg, the concert award of the TheaterGemeinde Hamburg, the Saltarello award and the award of the festival at the TONALi19 piano competition “Music in the houses of the city”.

Dawidiuk is also the first winner of numerous competitions for piano and organ. I.a. In 2015 he won first prizes including special prizes at the “International Youth Piano Competition” in Essen and in 2016 at the 24th Little Schumann Competition in Zwickau. This was followed by 1st prizes at "The London Organ Competition 2018" and at the "International Young Organist Competition Moscow 2019". At Jugend musiziert he was awarded a total of six 1st federal prizes as well as special prizes such as the Hans Sikorski Memorial Prize and the Eduard Söring Prize of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben both as a soloist in the categories “piano” and “organ” as well as chamber music.

As a pianist, organist and harpsichordist he has given concerts in the Philharmonie Essen, in the small broadcasting hall of the NDR in Hanover, in the broadcasting hall in Bremen, in the Pierre-Boulez hall in Berlin, in the St. Petri-Kirche in Hamburg and in the Essen Cathedral. As a soloist he has appeared with the Göttingen Symphony Orchestra and the Braunschweig Chamber Orchestra. He is a scholarship holder of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation, the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben and the Mozart Society Dortmund.

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