The Polish-born pianist Slawomir Dobrzanski, performs frequently in Europe, South America, and throughout the United States, both as a soloist and chamber musician. 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, Chopin Festival of Hawaii, Chopin & Friends Festival in New York City, Festival of New Music in Darmstadt, Germany, “Music Gettysburg!” Festival in Gettysburg, El Paso Chopin Music Festival, Chopin Festival in Miami, FL, and, most recently, in the “Pianissimo! Acercate a escuchar” Piano Series in Ecuador.

In the past, he collaborated 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 recorded several solo and chamber music works for Polish Radio and Television, including the complete piano music by Artur Malawski. He is also an author of the first English biography of the early 19^th century virtuosa Maria Szymanowska, published by the University of Southern California-Los Angeles.

His major teachers include Regina Smendzianka, Andrzej Dutkiewicz, Kajetan Mochtak, Neal Larrabee, and Zelma Bodzin.

He was a member of the music faculty of Concordia College in Moorhead, MN, and the University of Rhode Island and served as guest artist teacher at the National Conservatory in Lima, Peru and at the Universidad de Cuenca, Ecuador. Currently, he works as Assistant Professor of Piano at Kansas State University.

Critic’s Voices:

  “The Master of the singing phrase” – Neuss-Grevenbroicher Zeitung, Neuss, Germany

  “Unerring execution and eloquent phrasing.” – New Britain Herald

  “A perfect interpreter of both Chopin and Liszt’s music.” – The Polonaise, Miami, FL

  “He kept the audience alive and on their toes” – Uconn Daily Campus

  “ The Polish pianist showed maturity and sensitivity.’ – Luzerner Tageblatt, Lucerne, Switzerland

  “ His playing has a rarely heard breadth of expression between intimacy and virtuosity” – West-Deutsche Zeitung, Dusseldorf, Germany

Mr. Dobrzanski is a prizewinner of several competitions for young artists such as the MTNA Wurlitzer Collegiate Artist Competition in Spokane, WA (1993, National First Runner-up), the Naftzger Young Artist Competition in Wichita, KS (Grand Prize, and Piano Division Prize, 1993), and the Lincoln Symphony Young Artist Competition in Lincoln, NE (First Prize, 1993) and the University of Connecticut Concerto Competition (1998). He is also a recipient of the Donald DeLaski Artistic Fellowship Grant (2000).

Slawomir Dobrzanski graduated from the prestigious Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, Poland. In the years 1992-1994 he studied at the University of Kansas, and has taken part in international master classes at the International Festival of New Music at Darmstadt and the Lucerne Conservatory in Switzerland. In May 2001, Mr. Dobrzanski completed the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano performance at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT.