Jakub Tchorzewski

		JAKUB TCHORZEWSKI - Biography

		Polish pianist Jakub Tchorzewski, an active soloist and chamber musician, has performed across Europe and the United States, as well as in Japan and Brazil. His most significant appearances include concerto performances with the Warsaw National Philharmonic, Lvov Philharmonic and Bern Symphony Orchestras, as well as recitals during the Mostly Mozart and Veress 2007 Festivals in Switzerland. Many of his past performances were recorded and broadcasted by Czech, Slovakian, Swiss and Polish National Radios.
	In May 2008 Jakub performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. as a finalist of the 55th Washington Piano Competition. The Washington Post wrote: "Jakub Tchorzewski, 27, of Poland, displayed imagination in excerpts from Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and a hell-bent movement from Prokofiev's Sixth Sonata". In 2007, the recording company Musiques Suisses issued a Debut-CD by Mr. Tchorzewski. This recording contains the complete piano works by Sándor Veress - a significant but lesser known Hungarian composer, who was a student of Béla Bartók and a teacher of György Ligeti and György Kurtag. This was the first CD to include all of Veress's published and unpublished works for solo piano. In a review in Neue Zeitschrift für Musik (the oldest existing music magazine in the world, founded in 1834 by Robert Schumann), Tchorzewski's CD received 5 points, the magazine's highest rating, for its musical interpretation and choice of repertoire. Martin Andersson of International Piano wrote, "These vigorous and rhythmically alert performances by Pole Jakub Tchorzewski are all the more welcome." As a soloist, Mr. Tchorzewski has received many prizes. He is a laureate of the 5th Szymanowski International Music Competition in Lodz, Poland, the ArtLivre International Piano Competition in Sao Paolo, Brazil, and the 37th Polish Piano Festival in Slupsk, Poland. In October 2007, he was awarded a Special Prize at the 2nd Louisiana International Piano Competition in Alexandria, USA.

	Jakub Tchorzewski has taken part in many master classes led by such distinguished pianists as Piotr Anderszewski, Rudolf Buchbinder, Ethella Chuprik, John O'Conor, Piotr Paleczny, James Tocco and others.
	After graduating with honors from the Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, Poland, Mr. Tchorzewski was given the opportunity to continue his studies for two more years as a recipient of a Swiss Government Scholarship at Bern University of the Arts in Switzerland. Thanks to generous support from the Kosciuszko Foundation, he was able to study with Mack McCray at San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where he achieved a Professional Studies Diploma in Instrumental Performance.
	Apart his concert activity Jakub worked as a piano teacher at the Chopin School of Music in Warsaw and as a lecturer at the Bacewicz Academy of Music in Lodz, Poland.