Piotr Pawlak

Piotr Pawlak
Piotr Pawlak in 2020, after concert in Orangery in Łazienki Park in Warsaw, Poland
Background information
Also known as	Piotr Ryszard Pawlak
Born	(1998-02-20) February 20, 1998 (age 27) [1] Gdańsk, Poland
Genres	Classical music
Occupation	Musician
Instrument(s)	Piano, Pipe organ
Website	https://piotrpawlak.eu

Piotr Pawlak (born 20 February 1998 ^[1] ) is a Polish classical pianist. He won the V International Maj Lind Piano Competition in Helsinki and XI International Chopin Piano Competition in Darmstadt.

Education

He began his musical education playing the piano at the age of six in Feliks Nowowiejski Music School in Gdansk with Ewa Włodarczyk, and then continued to study with Waldemar Wojtal until the end of his studies in 2021. He also graduated from music school in organ studies under the tutorship of Hanna Dys and attended the Stanislaw Moniuszko Music Academy in Gdansk with Zygmunt Rychert. He attended masterclasses with, among others, Kevin Kenner, Dang Thai Son and Dmitri Alexeev. ^[2] In 2024, he enrolled as a student at the International Piano Academy Lake Como. ^[3]

Pawlak competed at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 2014 and 2015, representing Poland and winning bronze medals in both years. ^[4] He studied mathematics at the University of Gdańsk while attending the Stanislaw Moniuszko Music Academy, ^[5] defending a master's thesis in 2020. He is working on a doctoral thesis on non-orientable surfaces.

Awards and prizes

• II International Chopin Competition on Period Instruments in Warsaw, Poland (2023) – 2nd prize ^[6]
• XII Paderewski International Piano Competition in Bydgoszcz, Poland (2022) – distinction ^[7]
• V International Maj Lind Piano Competition in Helsinki, Finland (2022) – 1st prize ^{[8] [9]}
• Premio Internazionale Antonio Mormone in Milan, Italy (2021) – finalist ^[10]
• I International Competition of Polish Music in Rzeszów, Poland (2019) – 2nd prize ^[11]
• XI International Chopin Competition in Darmstadt, Germany (2017) – 1st prize and prize for the best improvisation ^[12]
• The Beijing International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition for Young Pianists in Beijing (2016) – 2nd prize ^[13]

References

1. "Fryderyk Chopin – Piotr Pawlak". chopin.nifc.pl. Retrieved 2025-01-02.
2. "The Fryderyk Chopin Museum - Piotr Pawlak". muzyka.nifc.pl. Retrieved 2025-01-02.
3. "Piotr Pawlak - Vancouver Chopin Society". chopinsociety.org. Retrieved 2025-01-02.
4. "Piotr Pawlak". International Mathematical Olympiad . July 16, 2015. Archived from the original on August 3, 2025. Retrieved October 14, 2025.
5. "Piotr Pawlak — matematyka i fortepian to moje pasje". University of Gdańsk (in Polish). Archived from the original on July 19, 2025. Retrieved October 14, 2025.
6. "Eric Guo is the winner of the 2nd Chopin Competition on Period Instruments!", iccpi.pl, retrieved 2025-01-02
7. "Nagrody – Konkurs Paderewskiego" (in Polish). 25 August 2023. Retrieved 2025-01-02.
8. "Piotr Pawlak wins the Maj Lind Piano Competition – Maj Lind Piano Competition". majlindcompetition.fi. 27 October 2022. Retrieved 2025-01-02.
9. "Puolalainen Piotr Pawlak voitti Maj Lind -pianokilpailun - Yle Uutiset". yle.fi (in Finnish). 27 October 2022. Retrieved 2025-01-02.
10. "Ying Li gewinnt den 1. Premio Internazionale Antonio Mormone in Mailand". www.bechstein.com (in German). Retrieved 2025-01-02.
11. "Konkurs Muzyki Polskiej — Laureaci". www.konkursmuzykipolskiej.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2025-01-02.
12. "Preisverleihung und Preisträgerkonzert – Chopin-Gesellschaft". chopin-gesellschaft.de (in German). Retrieved 2025-01-02.
13. "The 1st Beijing International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition for Young Pianists Successfully Closed and Chinese Competitors Achieve Good Results". zhuanti.ccom.edu.cn. Retrieved 2025-01-02.