STANISLAW DRZEWIECKI - ... a young Polish pianist...

(pronounced DJEH - VIETS - KEY, the first sound is as in "JUNGLE" with the full surname accented on the middle sound)

Stanislaw Drzewiecki, when only six years old, made his first concert tour as a soloist – a tour of Japan with Sinfonia Varsovia conducted by Volker Schmidt-Gertenbach. A year later, he gave concerts forthe Polish Television with the same well-known orchestra under Grzegorz Nowak’s baton at the Polish Radio Lutoslawski Concert Studio in Warsaw. Since then, he has performed at the concert halls of London (Victoria and Albert Museum), Amsterdam (Het Concertgebouw), Bergen (The Grieg Hall), Brussels (The European Parliament), Tallin (Estonia Hall), Vienna (Schönbrunn Palace), Madrid (Palacio Real de El Prado), Russia (Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory), Mexico (Palacio de Bellas Artes), Canada (Queen Elizabeth Hall in Vancouver and Winspear Centre in Edmonton), the USA (Cerritos Center and Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Chicago Symphony Hall, Verizon Hall in Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, Gusman Hall in Miami, and Lincoln Center in New York), and Japan (Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall, Tokyo Orchard Hall, Suntory Hall, Metropolitan Art Space in Tokyo, and Yokohama Minato Mirai).
On January 26, 2003, Stanisław Drzewiecki played at the world’s most prestigious venue – New York’s Carnegie Hall (Isaac Stern Auditorium), achieving an enormous success there. He received enthusiastic reviews

in New York Concert Review, Darrell Rosenbluth wrote:

"As though refreshed by the audience’s tumultuous reception of the Chopin group, Mr. Drzewiecki brought down the house with Liszt’s Six Grand Etudes Apres Paganini. Violinists, eat your hearts out!"

Roman Markowicz from the Polish Daily News commented:

"What is impressive in Drzewiecki’s playing from the very beginning is mainly a gorgeous sound which he can bring out of the instrument as well as similarly nicely shaped phrase. I could sense the elegance and ease in his playing that bring to mind the greatest pianists in history. It was now a masterly version that we had not heard for a long time at this or other stages in New York!"

Stanisław Drzewiecki has recorded 10 CDs under such record labels as DUX, Polish Radio, GHP Japan and Sony Classical. The artist recorded his first CD Piano Concertos - Bach, Mozart, Beethoven at the age of 10. Both this and the subsequent three CDs – My first gift, Chopin - Piano Concerto & 12 Etudes with Sinfonia Varsovia conducted by Grzegorz Nowak and Romantic Piano Recital – were nominated for the Fryderyk Award. Romantic Piano Recital became a “gold record” for the number of copies sold. The record with compositions by Schumann and Liszt (including the complete Studies on a Theme by Paganini) also became a “gold record”. In 2002, the pianist signed a contract with Sony Classical. Subsequently, he recorded Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Minor by Shostakovich at Disney Hall in Los Angeles, with the trumpeter Jens Lindemann and Orchestral Ensemble of International Laureates conducted by Eduardo Schmieder. His latest record is the hybrid Super Audio CD with Mozart’s concertos for 3, 2 and 1 pianos, with Sinfonia Varsovia conducted by Michael Zilm.

He has frequently been invited to play concerts inaugurating such prestigious cultural events as: the concert season in Basle, Chopin Festival in Canada, Europalia 2001–Poland in Belgium, Polish Days 2002 in Austria, Radio France Festival in Montpellier, Denmark Radio Festival in Copenhagen, and the 6th Festival Cultural de Mayo at Teatro Degollado in Guadalajara with Orchestra Filharmonica de Jalisco conducted by Fernando Lozano. In 2004, he inaugurated the concert season with Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra at Sapporo Concert Hall in Japan. With the same excellent orchestra led by Alexander Lazariev, he performed in February 2005 at Suntory Hall and Metropolitan Art Space in Tokyo, in a cycle presenting the world’s most eminent conductors. The young artist has toured Belgium (with Białystok Philharmonic), the Netherlands (with the Silesian Philharmonic and Hanseatica Chamber Orchestra of Gdansk), Japan (with St.Petersburg Orchestra), and the USA (with Wroclaw Philharmonic – the 50th Anniversary Tour).

James R. Oestreich from The New York Times wrote:

The main point of interest on Sunday in Lincoln Center, was a performance of Chopin's First Piano Concerto with the 17-year-old Stanislaw Drzewiecki as soloist. […] Mr. Drzewiecki proved remarkably assured and in complete command of the piece: its pensive and lyrical passages as well as its digital acrobatics.

The youthful Polish pianist’s present repertoire includes 18 piano concertos, his performances of which have featured such prominent conductors as Simon Young /Australia/, Jose Cura /Argentina/, Vladimir Kiradijew /Bulgaria/, Jury Alperten /Estonia/, Philippe Jordan /France/, Justus Frantz, Volker Schmidt-Gertenbach, Michael Zilm /German/, Fernando Lozano /Mexico/, Andrey Anikhanov, Alexander Lazariev, Leonid Nikolayev /Russia/, Albert Kaiser, Bruno Goetze /Switzerland/, Tatsunori Numajiri /Japan/, Victoria Zhadko, Nicolai Dyadiura /Ukraine/, Eduard Schmieder, Peter Dabrowski /USA/ and well over two dozen other podium figures.

In 2003, he made his debut as a composer, writing music for the play The Alder King based on J.W. Goethe’s ballad, for the “Lalka” Theatre in Warsaw. In March 2005, the Polish audience heard his Double Concerto for violin, piano and string orchestra, for the first time.

Stanisław Drzewiecki has won numerous prestigious awards, including Grand Prix at the European Television Competition in Alicante (1999), and the 10th Eurovision Grand Prix for Young Musicians in Bergen (2000). The final concert of the latter was watched by 10 million viewers. He is also the youngest person to have been awarded the Passport Award of the Polityka weekly.

He has studied with Viera Nosina, Tatiana Shebanova, and Victor Merzhanov. At present, he is a student at the Music Academy in Warsaw, in Andrzej Jasinski’s class.