Krzysztof Jabłoński

Krzysztof Jabłoński won Third Prize at the 11th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 1985, as well as numerous top prizes at international piano competitions in Milan (1980), Palm Beach (1988), Monza (1988), Dublin (1988), New York (1989) and Calgary (1992), and

also the Gold Medal at the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in Tel Aviv (1989). For more than thirty years, he has performed solo, as a chamber musician and with orchestras on stages in Europe, America, Asia and Israel. He has given recitals in the Master Concert Series at the Berliner Philharmonic. He is a frequent guest of many orchestras and has performed under the baton of Valery Gergiev, Andrzej Boreyko, Krzysztof Penderecki, Jerzy Semkow, Jerzy Maksymiuk, Frans Brüggen, Antoni Wit, Jan Krenz and Jacek Kaspszyk, and with prominent ensembles such as the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Berner Symphonie-Orchester, Radio- Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, Hamburger Symphoniker, Helsinki Philharmonic, Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Kyushu Symphony Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice.

As a chamber music recitalist, he has performed with Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Konstanty Andrzej Kulka, Teng Li, Tamaki Kawakubo, Jing Zhao, Robert Diaz and Daniel Gaede, among others. He is also a member of the Warsaw Piano Quintet. Besides the best known works of the piano literature, Jab∏oƒski also plays some less popular compositions, such as concertos by Ferdinand Ries, Henry Litolff and Ernő Dohnányi. He has performed for ballet, opera and theatre, as well as for spectacular multimedia projects, such as Scriabin’s Prometheus with the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, the ballet Fortepianissimo choreographed by Lorca Massine at the Polish National Opera in Warsaw and an original piano version of Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande. He performed Chopin’s works during the Wiener Opernball in Vienna.

He has also played in front of an audience of thousands with the Grant Park Orchestra and Krzysztof Urbaƒski at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park, Chicago. He has recorded live for radio and television in many countries, as well as numerous CDs in Germany, Japan and Poland (including as part of the Polish National Edition of the Works of Fryderyk Chopin, edited by Jan Ekier). He studied with Janina Butor and Andrzej Jasiƒski at the Academy of Music in Katowice, where he earned his PhD in 1997. In 2006, the President of Poland conferred on him the title of Professor. Krzysztof Jab∏oƒski regularly gives masterclasses and lectures, and he has been a juror of international piano competitions, including Chopin competitions in Warsaw, Toronto, Miami, Tokyo and Foshan, China. He is a Professor of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw.