Kacper Żaromski, piano

Program

  • Karol Szymanowski (1882 - 1937) - Mazurkas op. 50 (1924/1925) (11’)
  • No. 13, Moderato (3’)
  • No. 14, Animato
  • No. 15, Allegretto dolce
  • No. 16, Allegramente. Vigoroso
  • Fryderyk Chopin (1810 - 1849) - Sonata in B Minor op. 58 (1844) (28’)
  • I. Allegro maestoso
  • II. Scherzo (Molto vivace)
  • III. Largo
  • IV. Finale (Presto ma non tanto)

Kacper Żaromski was born in 1999. He is a native from Rymanow Zdrój in South Eastern Poland. He graduated with honors from the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Music School in Krosno, under the teaching of Mrs. Dorota Skibicka. He then proceeded to complete a five-year course of study with Professor Katarzyna Popowa Zydroń, after which he was awarded a Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree with distinction from the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music. He is currently pursuing a Performance Diploma at Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of Performing Arts, under Professor Edward Auer.

He is a prize winner of many Polish and international piano competitions: II Prize in International Chopin Piano Competition in Budapest (2016), VI Prize in 51st Polish National Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition (2022), I Prize in International Competition in Moscow (2016), I Prize in Leopold Bellan International Piano Competition in Paris (2018, 2020), I Prize at I Internationalen Chopin-Klavierwettbewerb in Vienna (2018), I Prize in International Chopin Competitions in Antonin (2017) and Rzeszów (2017), and many others. In addition, his chamber music accolades include: III Prize in the 7th International Chamber Music Competition in Bydgoszcz (2020), II Prize in 1st International Online Instrumental Performance Competition (2021). In 2020, he received an Artistic Prize founded by Elżbieta and Krzysztof Penderecki at the XV International Piano Forum in Sanok.

Kacper has taken part in piano masterclasses in Gdańsk, Żywiec, Sanok, Łódź, Cracow and in the XXXVIII International Piano Course in Duszniki-Zdroj. He was invited to take part in the XXII National Piano Master Class in Duszniki-Zdrój, during the 78th Duszniki International Chopin Piano Festival. He worked under the following distinguished professors: Dina Yoffe, Dang Thai-Son, Mikhail Voskresensky, Dmitri Alexeev, Boris Bloch, Tamas Ungar, Michel Béroff, Eugen Indjic, Kevin Kenner, Orla McDonagh, Eldar Nebolsin, Philippe Giusiano, Wojciech Świtała, Andrzej Tatarski, Grzegorz Kurzyński, Waldemar Andrzejewski, Aleksiej Orłowiecki, Andrzej Jasiński.

About the Dame Myra Hess Concerts

The concerts are generously sponsored by the Paul M. Angell Family Foundation, the Illinois Arts Council and by individual donors.

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