Sydney Lee, cello and Liang-yu Wang, piano
Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago, 55 E. Wacker Drive
Kacper Żaromski was born in 1999 and comes from Rymanow Zdrój in South Eastern Poland. He has been learning to play the piano since 2007 in the state music school in Krosno under the tutelege of Dorota Skibicka. After finishing at the Ignacy Jan Paderewski High Music School in Krosno, he started studies at the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz, in the studio of Professor Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń. In 2023 he finished his studies with distinction and is currently working towards his Piano Performance Diploma at Roosevelt University Chicago College of Performing Arts with Professor Edward Auer class.
Żaromski gives regular concerts in Poland and abroad including in Chicago, Bloomington, Lviv, Budapest, Cracow, Duszniki-Zdrój, Warsaw, Gdańsk, Sofia, Krosno, Łódź, Rzeszów and Sanok. He performed Chopin’s Second Piano Concerto with the Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw under the baton of Michał Klauza (2022), and with Rzeszów Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Marek Pijarowski (2018). Recently he performed Bartók’s Third Piano Concerto with Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Michał Dworzyński (2023).
Żaromski is a prize winner of many Polish and international piano competitions including the second prize of the VII International Chopin Piano Competition in Budapest (2016), fourth prize at the 51st Polish National Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition (2022), first prize at the International Competition in Moscow (2016), first prize at the Leopold Bellan International Piano Competition in Paris (2018, 2020), first prize at the I Internationalen Chopin-Klavierwettbewerb in Vienna (2018), first Prize at the International Chopin Competitions in Antonin (2017) and Rzeszów (2017), and many others. He has received awards in chamber music competitions including the third prize at the 7th International Chamber Music Competition in Bydgoszcz (2020) and second prize at the 1stInternational Online Instrumental Performance Competition (2021). In 2020 he received an Artistic Prize from Elżbieta and Krzysztof Penderecki at the XV International Piano Forum in Sanok.
In addition to his numerous prizes and competition winds, Żaromski has received a few some special prizes including an invitation to give a recital at the School of Talents in Lvov, an invitation to participation in XIX International Competition-Festival in Moscow, as well as a special prize awarded by NIFC (Polish Chopin Institute) at VII International Chopin Piano Competition in Budapest.
Żaromski has taken part in many piano masterclasses including 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 has additionally 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, Wiera Nosina, Mirosław Herbowski, Andrzej Pikul, Urszula Bortkiewicz, Bogumił Nowicki, Edward Wolanin, Mariusz Drzewicki, Karol Radziwonowicz.
In 2015 he received a scholarship from the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage, as well as the Scholarship of the Polish Prime Minister. In 2016 he received the scholarship of the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage again. He is a grantee of the Interpiano Foundation, and he received scholarships from the Rector of the Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz for the top students (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022).
The concerts are generously sponsored by the Paul M. Angell Family Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Illinois Arts Council and by individual donors.