MA Piotr Alexewicz

Piotr Alexewicz is one of the most recognized Polish pianists of his generation. He studied at the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław under Professor Paweł Zawadzki and later at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste with Professor Konstantin Scherbakov.

He gained international recognition as a semifinalist at the 18th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, where he received the Professor Zbigniew Drzewiecki Prize. He is also a two-time winner of the National Chopin Competition in Warsaw, organized by the Fryderyk Chopin Institute.

Internationally, he has won the 3rd Ville de Gagny International Piano Competition in Paris (Grand Prix, Audience Prize, Musicdeco Prize) and 2nd Prize at the Dinu Lipatti Jeunesses International Music Competition in Bucharest. In 2024, he won the Concerto Competition at Piano Texas Piano Academy, performing Brahms’s Piano Concerto in D minor, Op. 15, with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. That same year, he became a laureate of the Schenk Competition in Switzerland, winning all special awards, including the Audience and Orchestra Prizes.

His discography includes a debut album (2019, Fryderyk Chopin Institute) and multiple recordings with Sinfonia Varsovia under Howard Shelley, featuring Chopin’s complete works for piano and orchestra (excluding the concertos), as well as Chopin’s 26 Preludes and Sonata in B-flat minor, Op. 35 (to be released in 2025).

He has appeared at leading festivals (Chopin and His Europe, Duszniki-Zdrój, Nohant, Festival Chopin do Brasil, Piano Texas, Rubinstein Festival, and others) and in prestigious concert halls such as the Berlin Philharmonie, Salle Cortot, National Forum of Music in Wrocław, Warsaw Philharmonic, Teatro Nacional in Brasília, Sala São Paulo, and concert halls across Japan.

He has collaborated with many renowned conductors, including Marek Pijarowski, Andrzej Boreyko, Ariel Zuckermann, Benjamin Schwartz, Hansjörg Schellenberger, and others.

In 2021, he was awarded a scholarship from the Hans und Eugenia Jütting Foundation in Germany and became the first recipient of the “Young Promoter of Poland” award from the First Lady of Poland, Agata Kornhauser-Duda. He was also awarded the Wrocław Artistic Prize the same year.