One of the most outstanding Polish pianists
and professors, laureate of five international piano competitions. He completed
piano studies at the Frederick Chopin Music University in Warsaw in the class
of prof. Jan Ekier. The opportunity of having artistic contact with Arthur
Rubinstein and Witold Lutoslawski also had a huge impact on the final
development of his artistic personality.

His success achieved at the 8th Frederick
Chopin International Piano Competition opened to Piotr Paleczny the doors of
many prestigious world concert halls. Receiving, in company of Garrick Ohlsson
and Mitsuko Uchida – the Third Prize, the Special Prize for the best
performance of a Polonaise and the Witold Małcużyński
Prize his career, which the artist has enjoyed constantly until now performing
concerts on all continents.

He performed as a soloist with such
prominent orchestras as the Chicago Symphony, Concertgebouw, Royal
Philharmonic, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Gewandhaus, Tonhalle Orchester Zürich,
RAI, Santa Cecilia, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Mexico, Orquesta Sinfónica
Nacional de Argentina and Orquesta Nacional de España…. and many other famous
orchestras.

He gave concerts in prestigious concert
halls including the Carnegie Hall, the Alice Tully Hall and the UN General
Assembly Hall in New York, the Orchestra Hall in Chicago, Suntory Hall in
Tokyo, Berliner Philharmonie, Gewandhaus in Leipzig, Teatro Colon in Buenos
Aires, Musikverein in Vienna, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Royal Festival
Hall in London and Festspielhaus in Salzburg.

He has held master classes in New York,
Tokyo, Sydney, Buenos Aires, Fort Worth, Bordeaux, Paris, Seoul, Beijing,
Brescia, Madrid, Amsterdam, Hamamatsu, Montevideo, Mexico City… He has gained a
great recognition as a juror at the prestigious international piano
competitions such as those organized in Warsaw (seven last editions of the
Chopin Competition), Leeds, Montreal, Moscow (Tchaikovsky – in 2002 and in
June, 2019), Paris, A.Rubinstein in Tel Aviv, London, Cleveland, Geneve,
Hamamatsu, Toronto, Tokyo, Takamatsu, Seoul, Salt Lake City, Minneapolis,
Santander, Sendai, Taipei, Weimar, Manchester, Shezhen, Los Angeles, Hilton
Head…

In July 2007, he led the Jury works at the
prestigious piano competition in Cleveland, thus he was the first and only Pole
invited to fulfill a function of Jury chairman at the USA international piano
competitions.

On 5 November 2001, Piotr Paleczny was
invited to be a soloist of the extraordinary Gala Concert to commemorate the
100th Anniversary of the Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra.

Since 1993 he has been Artistic Director of
the world’s oldest existing piano festival

– the Duszniki International Chopin Piano
Festival and since 2004 he also is the Artistic Director of the International
Paderewski Piano Competition in Bydgoszcz.

In 2015 the National F.Chopin Institute has
released highly awaited CD recorded by Piotr Paleczny

– all Chopin recital which became a huge
success among critics and the audience. Piotr Paleczny conducts the piano class
at the Frederick Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. His students have won
dozens of awards at the most important international and national piano
competitions. Currently he is also Professor at the Talent Music Academy in
Brescia, Italy. Member of the executive committee of the International Pianists
Association.

In March 2017, Piotr Paleczny was awarded
with prestigious Diploma and Title of Honorary Professor of the F.Chopin
University of Music.

In April 2017, the Board of the Polish
Phonographic Academy, in recognition of his artistic achievements, awarded him
with the most prestigious ‘Golden Fryderyk’ Award.

In September 2018, Piotr Paleczny received
an extraordinary and unique prize

– The C.K. Norwid Award “Work of
Life”

The artist is honored with many superior and
prestigious Polish and foreign states decorations, such as the Commander’s
Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta and the Mexican Order of the Aguila
Azteca. In September 2005, Piotr Paleczny was awarded the highest Polish
artistic distinction – „Gold Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis”. In
2019 – the Government of Japan awarded Piotr Paleczny one of the highest
japanese honors – Order of the Rising Sun, Golden Rays with Ribbon