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Gorczyca, Grzegorz

A graduate of Warsaw’s Music Academy in the piano class of Bronisława Kawalla and piano chamber music class of Andrzej Guz, he has also studied at masterclasses run by Tatiana Shebanova, Andrzej Jasiński, and Victor Merzhanov. He is an award winner at the Claude Kahn Piano Competition in Paris.

He appears as a soloist and in chamber ensembles in Poland, Europe, Japan, and the United States. He has worked with many symphony orchestras under the baton of conductors such as Jerzy Salwarowski, Antoni Wit, Phillip Ellis, Mirosław Jacek Błaszczyk, Marcin Nałęcz-Niesiołowski, and Renato Rivolta. He has partnered many outstanding soloists including Olga Pasichnyk, Marta Boberska, Tomasz Krzysica, Wanda Wiłkomirska, Cecylia Barczyk, Katarzyna Duda, Andrzej Orkisz, and Tomasz Strahl.

Since 1997, he has regularly appeared in concerts with cellist Rafał Kwiatkowski both in Poland and abroad. As a duo, they have won the 1st Prize at the Kuhmo International Competition in Finland (1993). In December 2000, they toured Japan, including the famous Suntory Hall in Tokyo.

In January 2013 with Anne-Sophie Mutter and the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra under Antoni Wit, Grzegorz Gorczyca played Lutosławski’s Partita for the composer’s 100th anniversary celebration concert.

He plays a broad repertoire from Bach to modern music, including composers such as Weronika Ratusińska, Maciej Zieliński, Aleksander Kościów, Andrzej Dutkiewicz, and Rafał Augustyn (including the solo part in his Symphony of Hymns at 2004 Warsaw Autumn).

Since 2002, he has been the pianist of the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. He also teaches the piano at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. 

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