Piotr Alexewicz - NOSPR
Piotr AlexewiczPiano
Piotr Alexewicz is one of the most recognisable Polish pianists of his generation as the laureate of the 5th Prize, the Audience Prize, and a range of extra-statutory awards at the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw.
In 2025, he won the 2nd Prize at the Hilton Head International Piano Competition in the United States, a success that strengthened his standing as an important pianist in the world. In the same year, he became a semi-finalist of the 17th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth.
He received the Professor Zbigniew Drzewiecki Prize at the 18th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, and twice won the laurels of the first place at the 48th and 50th Polish Chopin Piano Competition organised by the Fryderyk Chopin Institute. He has also taken the highest prizes at piano competitions in Paris and Bucharest.
In 2024, he was granted the first place in the Concerto Competition at the PianoTexas Academy and Festival, performing Johannes Brahms’s Piano Concerto in D minor, Op. 15 accompanied by the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra conducted by Miguel Harth-Bedoya. That same year, he became one of three laureates of the prestigious Schenk Competition in Switzerland, making history as the first participant ever to receive every special prize, including the Audience Prize and the Orchestra Prize.
The artist’s list of recordings is already a long one. It begins with his 2019 debut album released by the Fryderyk Chopin Institute, featuring works by Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, and Ravel. His collaboration with the Institute went further when he recorded, with Sinfonia Varsovia under Howard Shelley, all of Chopin’s works for piano and orchestra that are not concertos. He has also recorded the complete set of Chopin’s 26 preludes as well as the Sonata in B-flat minor, Op. 35; the premiere of the latter is due for release in 2026. The year 2025 saw the publication of three albums presenting every one of his solo performances from the 17th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth.
He has appeared at many distinguished international festivals, among them by the Chopin and His Europe Festival in Warsaw, the International Chopin Festival in Duszniki-Zdrój, the Chopin Festival in Nohant, Festival Chopin do Brasil, PianoTexas Festival, the Arthur Rubinstein Festival in Łódź, the Chopin Festival in Connecticut, the Kawai Piano Series, and the Gdańsk Music Festival; the pianist has also given recitals in Żelazowa Wola.
As a performer, Piotr Alexewicz has taken to the stage of many renowned concert halls, including the Berlin Philharmonie, the Salle Cortot in Paris, the National Forum of Music in Wrocław, the National Philharmonic in Warsaw, the Adam Mickiewicz University Auditorium in Poznań, the Teatro Nacional in Brasília, the Sala São Paulo, the Van Cliburn Concert Hall, the Bass Performance Hall, the Ed Landreth Auditorium in Fort Worth, the Sapporo Concert Hall Kitara, the ACROS Fukuoka Concert Hall, the Symphony Hall in Osaka, and the Musashino Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo.
The pianist has worked alongside many distinguished conductors, among them Marek Pijarowski, Carlos Miguel Prieto, Andrzej Boreyko, Ariel Zuckermann, Benjamin Shwartz, Przemysław Neumann, Hansjörg Schellenberger, Marc Kissoczy, Daniel Stabrawa, Thomas Koncz, Rune Bergmann, Adam Banaszak, Nicolae Moldoveanu, Howard Shelley, Ruben Silva, Jakub Chrenowicz, Norton Morozowicz, and Tatsuya Shimono.
His artistic achievements brought him significant recognition in 2021, when he received a scholarship from the German foundation “Hans und Eugenia Jutting – Stiftung Stendal”, along with the “Young Promoter of Poland” award presented by the First Lady of the Republic of Poland, Agata Kornhauser-Duda. That same year, he was honoured with the Wrocław Artistic Award.
He pursues an intensive concert career across the world, with performances in Poland, Switzerland, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Romania, Denmark, the United Kingdom, the United States, Brazil, Japan, and many other countries. Since 2024, he has additionally been teaching as a lecturer in the Department of Piano at the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław.
Piotr Alexewicz began his musical studies at the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław under the supervision of Professor Paweł Zawadzki, and he is currently continuing them at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste in Zurich in the class of Professor Konstantin Scherbakov. He has also received guidance from Nikolai Demidenko.
