Jerzy Maciejewski (pianist)

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Jerzy Maciejewski (date and place of birth not known) is a Polish pianist and music teacher.

Maciejewski began playing the piano at the age of five and studied piano with Maria Wiłkomirska at the Warsaw Music Academy (today: Fryderyk Chopin University for Music ) . He received several scholarships from the Fryderyk Chopin Society here and began teaching during his training. After completing his studies, he became a professor at the university and led the piano class at the instrumental pedagogy faculty in Bialystok. From 2005 to 2007 he led a piano class at the Keimyung Chopin Music Academy in Daegoo, South Korea, where he also gave weekly lectures and concerts in the local music society. As part of the Erasmus program , he led masterclasses in Tallinn (2009) and Novara (2011). As a juror, he participated in various competitions for young pianists.

Maciejewski has performed as a concert pianist in almost all of Europe, in Mexico and South Korea. The focus of his repertoire is on the works of composers of the 20th and 21st centuries. He is the founder of the Ignacy Jan Paderewski piano trio and co-founder of the Camerata Vistula ensemble . On radio and television he recorded a collection of Karol Szymanowskis with the violinist Magdalena Reszler and with the singer Ewa Iżykowska all the songs Fryderyk Chopin and song cycles by Ignacy Jan Paderewski and Karol Szymanowski. With the percussionist Stanisław Skoczyński he played compositions by Béla Bartók , Kazimierz Serocki and George Crumb .

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