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Alberto Nosè
Preliminary jury of XVIIII 19th Chopin Competition,
Warsaw, Poland
Defined by The New York Times “an artist with supreme technical mastery, dazzling and charming with his highly cultivated sound”, Alberto Nosè is one of the most awarded piano artists of his generation.
He stood out the international music world at the age of eleven winning 1st Prize at the Jugend für Mozart International Competition in Salzburg.
Top prize winner of Montecarlo Piano Masters, New York Concert Artists, Paloma O’Shea in Santander, Long-Thibaud in Paris, Maj Lind in Helsinki, Busoni in Bolzano, he was laureate at the F. Chopin International Piano Competition in 2000 which led him to a worldwide career as soloist as well as with major orchestras (London Philharmonic Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonique de Radio France, Sinfonica de Madrid) in the most renowed concert venues like Carnegie Hall in New York, Southbank Centre in London, Konzerhaus in Berlin, Théâtre du Châtelet and Salle Pleyel in Paris, Auditorium in Madrid, Mozarteum in Salzburg, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, City Hall in Hong Kong, Bellas Artes in Mexico City, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, La Fenice in Venice, Santa Cecilia in Rome.
Jury member in many international piano competitions like Kiev, Tbilisi, New York, Hong Kong, Helsinki, Budapest, Graz, Ljubljana, Warsaw, he is co-founder of the International Amadeus Competition in Lazise, Italy.
His debut album for Piano Le Magazine featuring works by Brahms, Chopin, Liszt and Prokofiev won several awards like CHOC du Monde de la Musique and La Clef by ResMusica.
His CD of the Keyboard Sonatas by J. Ch. Bach, recorded on modern piano and published by Naxos, has been broadcast by Radio France, BBC 3, Radio 4 Netherland, Radio New Zealand, ABC Classic FM USA and Australia.
His third album with Schumann’s Symphonic Etudes and Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet for Harmonia Mundi won Diapason d’Or.
Since 2019 he has been founder, artistic director and producer of Amadeus Sound Project, an independent record label which releases all his new recording projects.
Invited to teach master classes around the world, he was guest professor at the Music Conservatory in Geneva, Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Mannes College of Music in New York, as well as at Music Academies in Gdansk and Bydgoszcz.
His musical education started at Verona Conservatory and continued at Imola International Piano Academy. His artistic development has been also enriched by his musical studies with Maurizio Pollini, Murray Perhaia, Andrzej Jasinski, Paul Badura-Skoda, Michael Beroff, Alexander Lonquich, Arie Vardi, Fou Ts’ong, Karl-Heinz Kämmerling.
He has been Piano Professor at Verona Conservatory of Music since 2022 and on the faculty of the International Accademia Amadeus in Valeggio sul Mincio, Italy.
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).
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
orchestras 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.