Rafał Mokrzycki

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Rafał Mokrzycki (born January 12, 1991 in Warsaw ) is a Polish pianist and winner of the "Valletta International Piano Competition".

Life

Mokrzycki was born into a musical family and began playing the piano at the age of seven. After graduating from the Zenon Brzewski Music School in Warsaw in 2010, he attended the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, which he graduated in 2015. He received further musical impulses at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna .

Mokrzycki works as a soloist and chamber musician. He has performed in the National Philharmonic in Warsaw in Poland, in the National Forum for Music in Wroclaw , Poland, in the Opole Philharmonic in Poland, in the Philharmonic in Lviv in the Ukraine and in the Schönberg Center Vienna . He has been invited to various festivals, including a. to “Chopin w barwach jesieni” in Antonin, Poland, to the Valletta Piano Festival in Malta, to the Gulangyu Polish Music Week in Summer in Xiamen, China, to the International Paderewski Festival in Warsaw and to the Sacrum non Profanum in Trzęsacz, Poland. Mokrzycki has performed in Germany , Austria , China , Japan , Romania , Latvia , Slovakia , Poland , Turkey , Ukraine and Malta .

In 2019 the CD "Magical Chopin" with works by Chopin was released on the DUX label.

Prices

  • 1st prize at the Valletta International Piano Competition (2017)
  • 3rd prize at the International Academic Music Competition (2014)
  • 2nd prize at the Polish National "Szymanowski in memoriam" piano competition in Warsaw (2009)
  • 3rd prize at the piano competition in Szczecin (2009)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Koncert kameralny dyplomantów UMFC . National Philharmonic . June 6, 2017.
  2. ↑ 35th Międzynarodowy Festival “Chopin w barwach jesieni” . Culture and arts center in Kalisz (Centrum Kultury i Sztuki w Kaliszu). 26th September 2016.
  3. ^ II Międzynarodowy Festiwal im. Ignacego Jana Paderewskiego . Łazienki Królewskie. November 8, 2015.
  4. ↑ Festiwal Sacrum non Profanum . Archdiocesan Archives in Szczecin (Archiwum Archidiecezjalne w Szczecinie). March 25, 2020.
  5. ↑ Magical Chopin. Mokrzycki . DUX.
  6. ^ Winners of the Valletta International Piano Competition 2017. Valletta International Piano Festival.
personal data
SURNAME Mokrzycki, Rafał
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish pianist
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw