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 STANISLAW
DRZEWIECKI
www.sdrzewiecki.com.pl/ STANISLAW
DRZEWIECKI performed
his first concert tour at the age of six in Japan appearing with the
Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra. The
following year was the occasion of his Polish television debut
performing in concerts once again with the same renowned ensemble.
Famed pianist and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy has declared:
"Stanislaw Drzewiecki represents and exceptional talent.
Despite his young age he is a remarkably interesting musician
with perfect piano technique."
"Stas,"
as the now 20 year-old is familiarly known, is the laureate of many
prestigious awards, among which are the Grand
Prix Award of the 1999 European Television Competition; the 10th Eurovision Grand Prix for Young Musicians in 2000
that was held in Bergen; Norway and viewed by 10 million people; and
he is the youngest ever laureate ever accorded the “Paszport
Polityki” Award in his native Poland.
His appearances as guest artist with orchestras include
touring with the St.
Petersburg Philharmonic in Japan; the Wroclaw
Orchestra in the USA; the Podlasie
Opera and Philharmonic in Belgium; and with both the Silesian
Philharmonic and Hanseatica
Chamber Orchestra in The Netherlands.
He tours with the Brno
Philharmonic in Japan in 2007 and recently
appeared as soloist with the Shenzhen Philharmonic Orchestra in China.
Since
his early, youthful performances “Stas” has appeared in many of
the world’s most famous concert venues including London’s Victoria & Albert Museum; Bergen’s Grieg Hall; Estonia Hall
in Tallinn; Vienna’s Schoenbrunn
Palace; the Palacio de
Bellas Artes in Mexico City; the Disney
Concert Hall in Los Angeles; Chicago’s Symphony
Hall; the Kimmel Center
in Philadelphia; and New York City’s Lincoln
Center.
He has appeared in all of Tokyo’s major venues as well as
the Minato Mirai in
Yokohama.
In 2003 he appeared with great success in the main hall – Stern
Auditorium - of the world’s arguably most prestigious musical
venue - Carnegie Hall -
receiving enthusiastic reactions from both audience and critics.
This multi-lingual
artist, fluent in English, has been honored with invitations
enabling him to perform in concerts inaugurating a number of
important musical events: the concert season in Basel; Chopin
Festival in Canada, Europalia
Poland 2001 in Belgium; Days
of Polish Music 2002 in Austria; Festival
de Radio France in Montpellier; Copenhagen’s Denmark
Radio Festival; and the 6th
Festival Cultural de Mayo at the Teatro
Degollado in Gaudalajara with the Filarmonica
de Jalisco.
In 2004, he opened the concert season of the Yomiuri
Nippon Symphony at Sapporo
Concert “Kitara” Hall in Japan.
Re-invited in 2005, he appeared with the same orchestra, led
by Alexander Lazarlev,
both in Suntory Hall and
the Metropolitan Art Space
in Tokyo featured in the concert series there presenting some of the
world’s outstanding symphonic conductors.
With a repertoire of
some 18 piano concertos Stanislaw Drzewiecki’s performances have
been under the baton’s of many prominent conductors.
He released his first CD at the age of ten with concertos by
Bach, Mozart and Beethoven.
A subsequent two CD’s were nominated for a Frederyk
Award in 1998, 1999 and 2000.
His fourth CD, featuring Chopin’s Piano
Concerto in E minor and 12
Etudes, recorded with the Sinfonia
Varsovia led by Gregorz
Nowak in 2000, has gained “gold’ status.
His tenth and latest,
CD, accompanied again by the Sinfonia
Varsovia under the baton of Michael
Zilm, features Mozart’s Piano
Concertos for one, two and three pianos and was produced in the Super
Audio CD system.
In 2002, he signed with the Sony
Classical label for Poland.
Other labels include DUX,
Polish Radio and GHP-Japan.
In 2003, “Stas”
made his debut as a composer by writing incidental music for the
play The King of Alders based on a ballad by Goethe and commissioned by
the Lalka Theatre in Warsaw.
In 2005, his latest piece a Double
Concerto for Violin, Piano and String Orchestra was premiered in
Poland.
Typical of any youth, he has a wide variety of non-musical
interests, such as diving, aviation, and plane modeling work,
distinguishing himself with some achievements even in his hobbies.
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