A versatile pianist, Slawomir Dobrzanski frequently performs a soloist and chamber musician Europe, South America, China, and throughout the United States. As a soloist, he performed with such orchestras as the National Philharmonic in Warsaw, Poland, the “Leopoldinum” Chamber Orchestra. “Connecticut Virtuosi” Chamber Orchestra, “Amadeus” Orchestra, Lincoln Symphony Orchestra, and the Frederic Chopin Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra. He participated in the “Potomac River Piano Festival”, Mozart Festival in Poznan, Poland, Chopin Festival in Antonin, Poland, ‘Warsaw Autumn” Contemporary Music Festival, Festival of Polish Pianists in Slupsk, Poland, Chopin Festival of Hawaii, Chopin & Friends Festival in New York City, “Chopiniana” Festival in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Darmstadt Festival of New Music in Darmstadt, Germany, “Music Gettysburg!” Festival in Gettysburg, El Paso Chopin Music Festival, American Liszt Society National Festival, in Lincoln, Nebraska, and Chopin Festival in Miami, FL.

He is a graduate of the Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, Poland and the University of Connecticut, where he received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree of in 2001. His major teachers include Regina Smendzianka, Andrzej Dutkiewicz, Kajetan Mochtak, Jack Winerock, Zelma Bodzin and Neal Larrabee. He also participated in summer schools in Switzerland and Poland, where he studied piano performance with Malcolm Frager, Mieczyslaw Horszowski and Victor Merzhanov.

Dobrzanski has recorded solo and chamber music by Witold Lutoslawski, Karol Szymanowski, Frederic Chopin, Stefan Kisielewski, Artur Malawski (complete piano solo music), Feliks Rybicki, Carl Tausig, and Johannes Brahms for Polish Radio and Television in Warsaw, Poland. He is also an author of the first English language biography of the acclaimed 19^th century pianist and composer Maria Agata Wolowska-Szymanowska, published in 2006 by the Polish Music Center at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

Slawomir Dobrzanski is also active as a teacher. He was a member of music faculties at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota and the University of Rhode Island. Currently he teaches piano and piano literature at Kansas State University, where he also serves as the Chair of Keyboard Studies.