Tuesday 16 September 2.00 pm
Andrzej Wiercinski (piano)
A Chopin recital
Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise in E flat Op 22 (14')
Nocturne in E flat Op 55 no 2 (5')
Polonaise-Fantasy in A flat Major Op 61 (12')
Mazurkas Op 59 (10')
no 1 in A minor
no 2 in A flat
no 3 in F sharp minor
Scherzo no 2 in B flat Minor Op 31 (11')
Short intermission
Sonata no 3 in B Minor Op 58 (26')
Allegro / Scherzo / Largo / Finale
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Andrzej Wiercinski was born in Warsaw in 1995 and graduated with Distinction from Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice and in 2020 received a post graduate diploma in piano at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg under the supervision of Professor Pavel Gililov. In June 2024 he graduated from the Royal College of Music in London where he studied with Professor Norma Fisher for the Artist Diploma. In earlier years he was a recipient of the Krystian Zimerman, Yamaha Foundation Scholarships and the F. Wybranczyk Artistic Scholarship of the Sinfonia Varsovia Foundation. He has collaborated with KAWAI and Japan Arts, which invited him to Asia on several tours.
Andrzej has won first prize in numerous national and international piano competitions including at the Saint-Priest International Competition in France (2019), First International Music Competition in Vienna (2019), Masters' Neapolitan Piano Competition (Naples 2018), International Chopin Competition “Golden Ring” in Slovenia (2014), International Chopin Competition in Budapest (2014), and the Polish International Chopin Competition (2015). He has also been a significant prize winner at other prestigious piano competitions, such as the American Ignacy Jan Paderewski International Piano Competition (Los Angeles 2022); Hong Kong International Piano Competition (2019); International Piano Competition in Tbilisi (2017); International Competition “Halina Czerny-Stefanska” in Memoriam (Poznan 2014). Andrzej was a semi-finalist in the International Fryderyk Chopin Competition in Warsaw (2021).
In recent years Andrzej has given recitals in most European countries as well as in Brazil, Canada, China, Indonesia, Japan, Singapore, and the USA. In January 2022 he performed in Dubai, where he gave 23 Chopin piano recitals during the EXPO. In 2015 Andrzej accompanied the President of Poland, Bronislaw Komorowski, on his visit to Japan and performed a Chopin recital in Tokyo in the presence of Princess Masako Owada. In the United Kingdom Andrzej has played in Hatchlands Park in the Cobbe Collection Series of piano recitals on historic pianos, for the Chopin Society on the UK and at the Polish Cultural Centre (POSK), as well as in many live streamed recitals at St. Mary's Perivale.
Andrzej has performed piano concerts with several major orchestras. They include Beethoven's 3rd Piano Concerto in the National Philharmonic Hall in Warsaw with the Sinfonia Iuventus in 2022, and Chopin's F minor Piano Concerto in Darmstadt with the Deutsche Philharmonie Merck Orchestra in 2023.In 2016 the Fryderyk Chopin National Institute released Andrzej's first CD of solo works by Chopin, Schumann, and Scarlatti. In 2025 he will be recording a further solo CD.
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