Rafał Blechacz will perform Tuesday at the National Philharmonic – Onet.pl

Blechacz will be accompanied by the National Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Jacek Kasprzyk. The program included the Fifth Symphony in C minor, Beethoven.

This year marks 10 years since the victory Blechacz in the XV International Competition. Frederic Chopin, which opened the 20-year-old pianist door to an international career. The pianist also received all special prizes: the Polish Radio for the best performance of mazurkas, Society of them. Frederic Chopin polonaise for the best performance, the National Philharmonic concert for the best performance and the special prize founded by Krystian Zimerman for the best performance of the sonata; he also won the audience award.

Since then, he recorded a number of CDs Blechacz in the prestigious contract with Deutsche Grammophon . As the first in 2007. Recorded on the disc all the preludes and two nocturnes of Chopin. Two years ago, appeared to turn a plate of polonaises composer. Beside Blechacz Chopin discs were also Polish composer Karol Szymanowski and Debussy, Haydn, Beethoven and Mozart.

crowning achievements Polish pianist is granted in 2014. Gilmore Artist Award prize. This award recognizes a concert pianist every four years, an anonymous evaluation committee. Candidates are not informed about the fact that entering into their concerts incognito committee members to consider nominating their prize. Blechacz also do not expect anything, when a representative of the International Festival of Irving S. Gilmore International held in Kalamazoo, Michigan, told him in Berlin that will receive a prize. Polish pianist was honored for her unique artistic craftsmanship. The winners were the Gilmore Artist Award in recent years Kirill Gerstein, Ingrid Fliter, Piotr Anderszewski and Leif Ove Andsnes.

Autumn in Warsaw will host the XVII International Contest. Frederic Chopin. For the next edition reported a record number of candidates – from around the world 452 applications were received.

This year pianists selected for the contest will be judged by an international jury chaired by prof. Catherine Popowa-Zydroń. It is in the class of professor winner of a decade ago, he studied at the Academy of Music. In Bydgoszcz.

The other members of the jury are: Dmitri Alexeev, Martha Argerich, Dang Thai Son, Akiko Ebi, Philippe Entremont, Nelson Goerner, Adam Harasiewicz, Andrzej Jasinski, Garrick Ohlsson, Janusz Olejniczak, Peter Paleczny, Ewa Pobłocka, John Rink, Wojciech Świtała, Dina Yoffe, Yundi Li.

October 1 competition will inaugurate the Argentine pianist and winner of the Chopin Piano Competition in 1965. Martha Argerich. This will be a symbolic reference to the past, because the program will Piano Concerto in B-flat minor by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, the pianist inaugurated the competition in 1980.

(KT)