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Joanna Ławrynowicz
Joanna Ławrynowicz - polish pianist, was born in Warsaw in the family that had been involved in music for many generations . At the age of four, she
started to learn to play the piano and her first educator was Hanna Lachertowa. She graduated with distinction from The Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw in Professor Teresa Manasterska's class. After graduation, she continued her education with Professor Halina Czerny-Stefańska until her death in 2001. She has won many prestigious international piano competitions, including The Steinway&Sons Competition for Young Pianists (Berlin 1990),The International Chopin Competition( Darmstadt 1999), The International Piano Competition of Halina Czerny-Stefańska in Ajigasawa (Japan 2000) and The International Piano Competition "Art Livre"; in Sao Paulo (Brazil 2001) . For several years she has been giving numerous concerts both as a solo and chamber pianist. She has already performed worldwide (Europe, Asia, North and South America and New Zealand). To her credit, there are many prestigious concerts in Poland and abroad, marked by the participation of distinguished orchestr s and outstanding conductors . As a Polish pianist, she is renowned for running abounding phonographic activity. She has already recorded more than 50 albums for Acte Prealable,
including the complete solo and chamber works of Fryderyk Chopin (which has never been achieved by any Polish artist before), all compositions for violin and piano, solo piano compositions and piano concerto by Romuald Twardowski; the complete chamber works and piano concertos by Henryk Melcer; Władysław Żeleński's solo piano compositions and the complete chamber works of Józef Elsner and Zygmunt Stojowski. Most of the compositions recorded by the artist have become the world phonographic premieres . Her albums, which are acclaimed by the lovers of classical music and highly appreciated by music critics, are getting very good reviews and they have received distinctions from the best music magazines worldwide. The pianist is engaged in holding courses and seminars both in Poland and abroad, including the USA ( Indiana University, Bloomington), China, Japan, Lithuania and France (The Boulogne Billancourt Conservatory in Paris). She was one of the judges during The international piano competitions in Shanghai (China), Petrozavodsk and Velikij Novgorod (Russia), Varenna (Italy) and in Luck (Ukraine). The artist has also written numerous piano performance instructions, published by Polish Music Publishers. Now the pianist is working as a professor at The Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, in the piano class, being also the head of the Piano Department. Among her students there are a lot of the winners of national and international piano competitions, taking place in Poland, Russia, Estonia, Italy, Taiwan,
France, Germany, Sweden.
Agnieszka Przemyk-Bryla
Professor at Fryderyk Chopin University of Music
Pianist, chamber musician, teacher, Habilitated Doctor of Musical Arts, associate professor at the Chair of Piano of the Chopin University of Music, from which she graduated with honours in 2004 in the piano class of Alicja Paleta-Bugaj and in the chamber music class of Krystyna Borucińska. Since 2020, she has been a Deputy Dean of the Department of Instrumental Studies of her alma mater.
Prizewinner of national and international piano competitions, including the 1st prize in the All-Polish Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw (2000). She received an honourable mention in the Estrada Młodych as part of the 35th Polish Piano Festival in Słupsk (2001); finalist of the International Piano Competition ‘Sergei Rachmaninov’ in Morcone (2003); winner of the second prize in the 3rd Concorso Pianistico Internazionale ‘Andrea Baldi’ in Bologna (2013). Two-time scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage as well as recipient of other prestigious scholarships.
She has participated in numerous master classes led by such artists and teachers as Andrzej Jasiński, Marek Mizera, Jerzy Godziszewski, Oxana Yablonskaya, Jacques Rouvier, Sergio Perticaroli, Hiroko Nakamura, Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, Arie Vardi, Dominique Merlet, Alexei Nasedkin, Evgeny Mogilevsky, Vera Gornostaeva, Lee Kum-Sing, and Nikolai Demidenko. The artist has performed in many Polish cities (including seven philharmonic halls) as well as in renowned concert venues in Austria, Azerbaijan, China, the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, or the USA. She has co-operated with such conductors as Łukasz Borowicz, Rafał Janiak, Monika Wolińska, Sławek A. Wróblewski, Tadaaki Otaka, Daisuke Soga and Jiří Petrdlík. She has run master classes for pianists in Poland, Azerbaijan, China, Italy, Tunisia, and the USA.
In 2014, together with Konstanty Andrzej Kulka and Tomasz Strahl, she recorded complete chamber works by Fryderyk Chopin for the DUX label. The album won the Excepcional award of the Spanish magazine Scherzo and received a nomination for a Fryderyk. In addition, the artist participated in the recording of two CDs under the Saxophone varie series (vol. 2 and vol. 3, nominated for a Fryderyk) with saxophonist Paweł Gusnar; in 2018, on the occasion of the centenary of Poland’s independence, she recorded cello sonatas by Zygmunt Stojowski and Ludomir Różycki, together with Tomasz Strahl, for Chopin University Press. In 2019, the album won a Fryderyk in the category Album of the Year – Chamber Music.
Moreover, in 2014 Agnieszka Przemyk-Bryła published the book Sonata w twórczości Siergieja Rachmaninowa [Sonata in the Output of Sergei Rachmaninov] (Toruń 2014).
Nobuhito Nakai
Professor at Toho Gakuen University
Japanese Pianist Nobuhito Nakai graduated from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, and finished graduate school also, after that finished masterclass at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich on a scholarship of DAAD, He
studied with Prof.Ueda, Prof. Oppitz, Prof.Kaemmerling. Nakai is prize-winner at many competitions, Music Competition of Japan, Johannes Brahms International Music Competition, International Piano Competition; Citta di Senigallia', G. B. Viotti International Music Competition in Vercelli, and M.Dranoff International Two Piano Competition (U.S.A.) with his wife Miwako Takeda.
He performed piano concerto, solo recital, piano duo recital, chamber music and played accompany in Japan, Europe and USA. Especially he played Brahm's complete piano works of solo and duo. As a Piano duo team with Miwako Takeda gave the numerous
concerts. He appeared TV, Radio, serialized in a Music magazine, and released solo CD "Brahms", and piano duo CDs "Mozart", "Rachmaninoff Suites", "Brahms / Hungarian Dances", "Waltzes","Fantasie", “From the New World”, ”An die Freude”. They are
highly appreciated, and selected All Nippon Airways (ANA) audio channel. He is a partner artist of the Fukoku mutual life insurance. In 2014 he received the Takehiko Kurushima culture award and teachers' award of many competitions. Nakai is a professor of piano faculty and dean at Toho Gakuen College of Music and a guest professor of Nagoya College of Music. He was a guest professor at Hochschule für Musik Detmold in winter term 2022. He gives masterclass France, Germany, China and Korea also.
Website : https://nakai-takeda.com/en/