Paweł Andrzej Mazurkiewicz

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Paweł Andrzej Mazurkiewicz (born July 18, 1976 in Warsaw ) is a Polish pianist and currently (March 2020) Professor at the Bern University of the Arts (HKB), Switzerland .

biography

Paweł Andrzej Mazurkiewicz began taking music lessons ( accordion ) at the age of nine and switched to piano at the age of 16 . After attending the Karol Szymanowski Music High School in Warsaw, he studied in the class of Jan Ekier and Bronisława Kawalla at the Warsaw Fryderyk Chopin University of Music , from which he graduated in 2000 as a Master of Arts with distinction. In 2004, after studying with Tomasz Herbut, he obtained a soloist diploma (Specialized Master of Arts) at the Bern University of the Arts , also with distinction, and won the Tschumi Prize for the highest grade in the final concerts. From 2004–2005 he studied chamber music with Eckart Heiligers and song design with Hartmut Höll at the Zurich University of Music and Theater .

Paweł Mazurkiewicz has been Professor of Piano MA Pedagogy (mediation) at the Bern University of the Arts since 2011. He also works as a répétiteur in the opera studio there .

Paweł Mazurkiewicz has won numerous piano competitions. In 2003 he won the “Prix Credit Suisse Jeunes Solistes” (Switzerland), which enabled him to perform at the Lucerne Festival in the same year . In 2010 he won first prize and the special jury prize at the international music competition "Cho-Ko-Chai" in Tokyo. He was also awarded at various Swiss competitions, for example the Geraldine Whittaker Prize (2006).

To date, Paweł Mazurkiewicz has played on three continents (Europe, America, Asia) and has taken part in numerous international music festivals, including in Bern, Davos, Lucerne, Los Angeles, Berlin and Warsaw. In Switzerland he has performed in Lucerne at the KKL Culture and Congress Center , in Zurich in the Tonhalle and in Bern in the Kultur Casino and in the Zentrum Paul Klee , together with various ensembles such as the Bern Symphony Orchestra , the Bern Chamber Orchestra , the New Zurich Orchestra, the Orchestra da Camera di Lugano and the Orchester de Chambre Romand de Berne. His chamber music partners include violinists such as Alexandre Dubach, Bartek Nizioł , Romain Hürzeler, Monika Urbaniak Lisik and Ulrich Poschner, the cellist Andreas Graf, the flutist Daniel Lappert, the baritone Claudio Danuser, the soprano Clara Meloni and the mezzo-sopranos Christiane Boesiger and Rie Horiguchi.

His appearances were broadcast several times on Polish and Swiss radio as well as on Polish, French and Japanese television. He has recorded a solo CD (DRS) and, together with Bartek Nizioł, two chamber music CDs for DUX. Both CDs were awarded the Fryderyk Music Prize (2005 and 2012).

In addition to his work as a classical pianist, Paweł Mazurkiewicz has recently been increasingly involved in crossover projects in which he combines classical music with folk music or jazz. In addition, he is increasingly devoting himself to composing his own music.

Awards

  • 1st prize, international “Konzertum” piano competition, Markopoulo, Greece, 1996
  • 1st prize, national “Chopin Competition”, Warsaw, 1997
  • 1st prize, international "Szymanowski piano competition", Łódź, 2001
  • 1st prize, “Prix Credit Suisse Jeunes Solistes” international competition, Switzerland, 2003
  • 1st Prize, "Cho-Ko-Chai" International Competition, Tokyo, 2010

Together with Bartek Nizioł, Paweł Mazurkiewicz was awarded the Fryderyk, an award from the Polish Phonographic Society, for recording Grażyna Bacewicz's pieces for piano and violin.

Discography

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lecturers + lecturers. Bern University of the Arts (HKB).
personal data
SURNAME Mazurkiewicz, Paweł Andrzej
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish pianist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw