Rafał Blechacz

Rafal Blechacz (RA-faw BLEH-hatch) is certainly a Polish pianist, given birth to June 30, 1985, in Nakło nad Notecią, Poland. He afterwards spoke highly from the small-town environment, stating that it had been conducive to solid focus on the piano. His schooling was solely in Poland. After completing his supplementary courses on the Country wide Artur Rubinstein Music College in Bydgoszcz, he researched with Katarzyna Popowa-Zydon on the Feliks Nowowiejski Music Academy. Blechacz was celebrated through the first section of his profession for earning tournaments. He received the next award in the Artur Rubinstein in Memoriam Competition in 2002, linked for initial place in the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition in 2003, and got the grand award from the International Piano Competition in Morocco in 2004. In 2005, he impressed the judges from the 15th International Frédéric Chopin Competition in Warsaw by earning all five from the awards (first award, polonaise, mazurka, sonata, and concerto), a feat no various other pianist has attained. Blechacz information on Deutsche Grammophon. The secretive and renowned Gilmore Musician Award was presented with to Blechacz in 2014. In the centre 2010s, as he outgrew prodigy position, Blechacz slowed his documenting profession and continuing his studies, searching for a idea doctoral plan at Nicolaus Copernicus College or university with a focus in musical looks; he includes a longstanding fascination with the writings of Polish philosopher Leszak Kolakowski. Blechacz continuing his concentrate on Chopin with an record of polonaises in 2013, but got a four-year hiatus, re-emerging with an acclaimed all-Bach discharge in 2017. In 2015 he received the Cavalier’s Combination of the Purchase of Polonia Restituta. A keen organist who has the device for enjoyment, Blechacz offers toured European countries, Japan, and THE UNITED STATES. Many of his record releases have attained gold record position in Poland.