WESTERN MUSIC CONCERT: Jerzy Sterczynski, piano

An Evening of Chopin on 17th Nov at 7 pm, Mazda Hall

In a programme of Fryderyk Chopin: Polonaise in A major Op. 40 No. 1; Etude in C sharp minor Op. 25 No. 7; Waltz in C sharp minor Op. 64; 3 Mazurkas: Op. 50: G major No. 1, A flat major No. 2, C sharp minor No. 3; Polonaise in A flat major Op. 53; Nocturne in C sharp minor Op. 27 and Sonata in B flat minor Op. 35

Jerzy Sterczynski, born in 1957, began to learn piano at the age of six. He finished his music high School in Bielsko-Biala, where he studied at the Katowice Academy of Music under Professor Andrzej Jasinski and graduated with honours in 1981. He then continued his training in London with John Bingham. He won the first prize at the Young Performers prize at the Polish Piano Festival in Slupsk and the second prize at the International Music Competition in Saragossa (1983). He is a very active concert performer and has toured worldwide. He has taken part in the Chopin Festival in Duszniki and also in festivals in Lockenhaus and La Chaise-Dieu. He has recorded 13 compact discs with the complete Chopin Nocturnes, Waltzes and Polonaises as well as his Sonata No. 2 and several small pieces. He has also recorded solo works by Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Reger and Szymanowski, and concertos by Chopin, Lessl and Dobrzynski. He has been a professor at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw since 1989. He was dean of the Department of Piano, Harpsichord and Organ in 2005-2008 and was re-elected for the term 2008-2012.