Greg Niemczuk

concert pianist

grzegorzniemczuk@gmail.com I www.niemczuk.com I www.facebook.com/g.niemczuk

2019/2020 CONCERT SEASON

25.09.2020 – Musashino Music Academy, Tokyo, Japan – Piano Recital 12.05.2020 - Stord kulturhus, Norway - Piano Recital "Beethoven 250 years

birthday anniversary" 10.05.2020 – Sandnes kulturhus, Norway – Piano Recital "Chopin in Words and

Tunes" 9.05.2020 – Festiviteten kulturhus Haugesund, Norway – Piano Recital "Chopin in

Words and Tunes" 7.05.2020 – Operahuset Nordfjord, Norway – Piano Recital "Masterpieces from

Poland and Norway" 5.05.2020 – Stordfjord Kulturhus, Stranda, Norway – Piano Recital "Beethoven 250

years birthday anniversary" 3.05.2020 – Fosnavåg konserthus, Norway – Piano Recital "Masterpieces from

Poland and Norway" 2.05.2020 – Stryn kulturhus, Norway – Piano Recital "Chopin in Words and Tunes" 29.04.2020 – Ørsta kulturhus, Norway – Piano Recital "Beethoven 250 years

birthday anniversary" 28.04.2020 – Rauma kulturhus, Åndalsnes, Norway – Piano Recital "Beethoven 250

years birthday anniversary" 26.04.2020 – Sykkylven, Norway – Piano Recital "Masterpieces from Poland and

Norway" 24.04.2020 – Ringerike kultursenter, Honefoss, Norway - Piano Recital "Beethoven

250 years birthday anniversary" 23.04.2020 - Festiviteten, Levanger, Norway - Piano Recital "Masterpieces from

Poland and Norway" 22.04.2020 – Kulturbadet, Sandnessjøen, Norway – Piano Recital "Chopin in Words

and Tunes" 19.04.2020 – Parken kulturhus, Ålesund, Norway – Piano Recital "Beethoven 250

years birthday anniversary" 18.04.2020 – Os, Norway – Piano Recital "Beethoven 250 years birthday

anniversary" 16.04.2020 – Voss, Norway – Piano Recital "Chopin in Words and Tunes"

21.03.2020 – Bechstein Hall, Tokyo, Japan – Piano Recital 20.03.2020 – Bechstein Hall, Tokyo, Japan – Piano Recital 16.03.2020 – Munetsugu Hall, Nagoya, Japan – Piano Recital 13.03.2020 – Łódź Philharmonic, Poland – 2nd Liszt Piano Concerto 1.03.2020 – Sosnowiec, Paderewski Center, Poland – Piano Recital 28.02.2020 – The Bielsko-Biala Cultural Center – Piano Recital 9.02.2020 – Nøtterøy kulturhus, Norway – Piano Recital "Chopin in words and

tones" 8.02.2020 – Arendal kulturhus, Norway – Piano Recital "Chopin in words and tones" 6.02.2020 – Kongsberg Musikteater, Norway – Piano Recital "From Poland to

Norway" 4.02.2020 – Oppdal Kultruhus, Norway – Piano Recital "Chopin in words and tones" 1.02.2020 – Furu Egg, Sandefjord, Norway – Piano Recital "Chopin and Beethoven" 7.12.2019 – Hotel Toriba, Campos do Jordão, Brazil – Piano Recital 4.12.2019 – Teatro de Clube de Pinheiros, São Paulo, Brazil – Piano Recital 25.20.2019 – Fujian Grand Theatre, China – Piano Recital

2018/2019 CONCERT SEASON

8.10.2019 – Oslo, Stovner Church, Norwegia – Piano Recital "From Poland to Norway" 6.10.2019 – Steinkjer, Norway – Piano Recital "Chopin in words and tones" 2.10.2019 – Porsgrunn, Norway – Piano Recital "From Poland to Norway" 1.10.2019 – Larvik, Norwegia – Piano Recital "From Poland to Norway" 29.09.2019 – Husnes, Norway – Piano Recital "From Poland to Norway" 21.09.2019 – Otta, Norway – Piano Recital "Chopin in words and tones" 20.09.2019 – Eidsvoll, Panorama Theater, Norway – Piano Recital "Music from Chopin's

heart" 3.09.2019 – Heredia, Costa Rica – Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica – Piano Recital 30.08.2019 – Bogotá, Columbia – Museo Nacional – Piano Recital 26.08.2019 – Lima, Peru – Teatro de la UNI – Piano Recital 25.08.2019 – Callao, Peru – Auditorio Municipalidad – Piano Recital 24.08.2019 – Callao, Peru – Auditorio Municipalidad – Piano Recital 21.08.2019 – Guayaquil, Ecuador, Teatro Centro de Arte, Teatro Principal – L. van

Beethoven – Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major Op. 73 14.08.2019 – Bergen, Norway – "Grieg in Bergen" Festival – Piano Recital 15.06.2019 – Guotai Arts Center, Chongquing, China – Piano Recital 14.06.2019 – Quintai Concert Hall, Wuhan, China – Piano Recital 9.06.2019 – Hebei Province Arts Center, Shijiazhuang, China – Piano Recital 8.06.2019 – Vintage, Beijing, China – Piano Recital 7.06.2019 – Temple, Beijing, China – Piano Recital 6.06.2019 – Mong Mang Wai Concert Hall, Tsinghua University, China – Piano Recital 14.05.2019 – Åndalsnes, Rauma kulturhus, Norway – "Chopin in words and tunes" – Piano

Recital 12.05.2019 – Ålesund, Parken kulturhus, Norway – "Chopin in words and tunes" – Piano

Recital 11.05.2019 – Sykkylven, Sykkylven kulturhus, Norway – "Chopin in words and tunes" –

Piano Recital 10.05.2019 – Stranda, Storfjord kulturhus, Norway – "Greg plays Grieg" – Piano Recital 9.05.2019 – Nordfjordeid, Operahuset Nordfjord, Norway – "Chopin in words and tunes" –

Piano Recital 8.05.2019 – Ørsta, Ørsta kulturhus, Norway – "Chopin in words and tunes" – Piano Recital 7.05.2019 – Fosnavåg, Fosnavåg konserthus, Norway – "Masterpieces for the piano" – Piano

Recital 5.05.2019 – Os, Oseana Kunst & Kultursenter, Norway – "Masterpieces for the piano" –

Piano Recital

3.05.2019 – Eidsvoll, Eidsvoll Church, Norway – Piano Recital 26.04.2019 – Musashino Music Academy, Brahms Hall, Tokyo, Japan – Piano Recital 23.03.2019 – Yamaha Hall, Osaka, Japan – Piano Recital 20.03.2019 – Munetsugu Hall, Nagoya, Japan – Piano Recital 16.03.2019 – Yamaha Ginza, Tokyo, Japan – Piano Recital 1.03.2019 – Bielsko-Biała, Bielskie Centrum Kultury, Poland – Piano Recital 22.02.2019 – Czeladz, Saturn Museum, Poland – Piano Recital 21.02.2019 – Boleslawiec, Boleslawiecki Osrodek Kultury, Poland – Piano Recital 25.01.2019 – Gdansk, European Solidarity Centre (Cirlces of Arts Festival), Poland – Piano

Recital 2.12.2018 – Beijing, Beijing A33 Hall, China – Piano and Violin Recital with Chen Xi, Polish

Cirlces of Arts Festival 27.11.2018 – Changde, Theater at the Music School of Changde College, China – Piano

Recital 23.11.2018 – Changsha, Changsha Concert Hall, China – Piano Recital with Zhou Mo 21.11.2018 – Xiamen, Xiamen University, China – Piano Recital 10.11.2018 – Sofia Sakai Hall, Osaka, Japan – Piano Recital 6.11.2018 – Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Tokyo, Japan – Piano Recital 4.11.2018 – Yachiyo Chiba, Shimamura, Japan – Piano Recital 21.10.2018 – Husnes, Norway – Piano Recital 19.10.2018 – Mandal, Buen kulturhus, Norway – Piano Recital 18.10.2018 – Kongsberg, Musikkteater, Norway – Piano Recital 17.10.2018 – Porsgrunn, Ælvespeilet, Norway – Piano Recital 16.10.2018 – Larvik, Norway – Piano Recital 14.10.2018 – Nittedal, Kulturverket Flammen, Norway – Piano Recital 13.10.2018 – Eidsvoll, "Panorama" Theatre, Norway – Piano Recital

CD RELEASES

2010 – F. Chopin – Etude in C minor Op. 10 No. 12 for the National Polish Television - „Chopin2010.pl”

2016 – Album „Wang Jianzhong Piano Music” catalog number RU 74686 – digital edition Record Union, DFP Group ((iTunes, Spotify, Deezer, Googleplay, Amazon Music, TIDAL, Shazam)

2016 – Mozart Piano Concerto no. 26 K. 537 “Coronation”, catalog number RU 76632 - digital edition Record Union, DFP Group ((iTunes, Spotify, Deezer, Googleplay, Amazon Music, TIDAL, Shazam)

2016 – Album „Greg plays Grieg” catalog number RU 75090– digital edition Record Union, DFP Group ((iTunes, Spotify, Deezer, Googleplay, Amazon Music, TIDAL, Shazam)

2016 – Album „Chopin Piano Masterpieces” catalog number RU74798 – digital edition Record Union, DFP Group ((iTunes, Spotify, Deezer, Googleplay, Amazon Music, TIDAL, Shazam)

2017 – Album „Live in Tokyo” catalog number 123079 – live recording of the recital in Toyosu Civic Center Hall in Tokyo, digital edition Record Union, DFP Group ((iTunes, Spotify, Deezer, Googleplay, Amazon Music, TIDAL, Shazam)

2019 – Album “Chopin Piano Sonatas” catalog number RU 192015 - digital edition Record Union, DFP Group ((iTunes, Spotify, Deezer, Googleplay, Amazon Music, TIDAL, Shazam)

ACADEMIC DEGREES

2017 – Doctor of Arts (D.A.) – K. Lipiński Music Academy in Wrocław, Poland

The title of doctoral thesis: „The characteristics of chosen piano pieces by Wang Jianzhong –

performing, stylistic and textural aspects”

2009 – Master of Arts (MA) – K. Szymanowski Music Academy in Katowice

The title of the master’s thesis: “Musicologists polemic about the construction of the Polonaise-

Fantasy A flat major Op. 61 by F. Chopin”.

Piano teachers:

2009 – 2013 – Jeffrey Swann (NYU Steinhardt)

2004 –2009 - prof. Józef Stompel (K.Szymanowski Music Academy in Katowice, Poland)

2004 – 2009 – Aleksey Orlovetsky (St. Petersburg – private tuition)

MASTERCLASSES AND PRIVATE TEACHERS

Dang Thai Son (2016, 2008)

Arie Vardi (2013, 2012)

Claudio Martinez-Mehner (2012, 2010)

Hamish Milne (2012)

Angela Hewitt (2012)

Emanuele Arciuli (2012)

Michel Beroff (2011)

Choong-Mo Kang (2010, 2011)

Joaquin Achucarro (2011)

David Dubal (2011)

Menahem Pressler (2008)

Klaus Hellwig (2010)

Pietro de Maria (2010)

Yuan Sheng (2009, 2011)

Jerome Rose (2008,2009,2011)

AWARDS

Individual Prize of the President of the University of Silesia for artistic achievements (2017),

Special Prize and Finalist Diploma at the International Busan Maru Music Festival in Busan, South Korea,

1st Prize at the International Piano Competition „Citta di Piove di Sacco”, Italy (2014),

1st Prize at the International Piano Competition „2013 International Carnegie Hall Concerto Debut Competition” in New York (2013).

1st Prize at the 40th National Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw (2010)

Winner of the „Janet and William Schwartz Scholarship Award” in New York (2008),

1st Prize at the International EPTA Piano Competition in Waterloo, Belgium(2008),

1st Prize at the Festival „Chopin Young Interpretations” in Konin, Poland (2008),

5th Prize at the 38th National Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw (2007)

1st Prize at the International Piano Competition „Stefano Marizza” in Trieste, Italy (2007),

3rd Prize at the 37th National Piano Competition in Warsaw (2006)

“Blüthner” Special Prize at the 3rd International F. Liszt Piano Competition in Wroclaw, Poland (2005),

3rd Prize at the 4th Chopin International Piano Competition in Varna, Bulgaria (2005),

CHOSEN ORCHESTRAL PERFORMANCES

13.03.2020 – F. Liszt – Piano Concerto no. 2 A major, Łódź Philharmnic Orchestra, Tibor

Boganyi

21.08.2019 - L. van Beethoven – Piano Concerto in E flat major op. 73 – Guayaquil, Ecuador –

Orquestra Sinfonica Juvenil de la Prefectura de la Provincia del Guayas, Manuel Campos

16.08.2017 - J.S.Bach – Concerto in D minor BWV 1052, Guayaquil, Ecuador – Orquestra

Sinfonica Juvenil de la Prefectura de la Provincia del Guayas, Fernando Gil

18.08.2017 - J.S.Bach – Concerto in D minor BWV 1052, Cuenca, Ecuador – Orquestra

Sinfonica Juvenil de la Prefectura de la Provincia del Guayas, Fernando Gil

1.09.2016 – E. Grieg - Piano Concerto in A minor, Busan, South Korea – Busan Philharmonic

Orchestra, Jose Flores

12.02.2016 – E. Grieg - Piano Concerto in A minor, Jelenia Góra, Poland – Jelenia Góra

Philharmonic Orchestra, Tadeusz Wojciechowski

11.12.2015 – E. Grieg - Piano Concerto in A minor, Kielce, Poland – Kielce Philharmonic

Orchestra, Jerzy Salwarowski

24.03.2015 – W.A.Mozart - Piano Concerto no. 26 in D major, Tokyo, Japan, Tokyo Mozart

Orchestra, Mitsuyoshi Oikawa

12.09.2014 – P.I.Tchaikovsky – Piano Concerto in B flat minor Op. 23, Słupsk, Poland, Sinfonia

Baltica, Bohdan Jarmołowicz

5,6.06.2013 – M.Ravel – Concerto in D major for the left hand, Cracow, Poland, Cracow

Philharmonic, Monika Wolińska

25.02.2013 – F. Chopin – Piano Concerto no. 2, Carnegie Hall, New York – New York Concerti

Sinfonietta, Paul Hostetter

3.06.2012 – W. Kilar – Piano Concerto no. 1 , Cracow Philharmonic Orchestra, Paweł Przytocki

12,13.10.2011 – F. Liszt – Piano Concerto no. 2, Silesian Philharmonic Orchestra in Katowice,

Maja Metelska

AGENTS AND MANAGERS REFERENCE

JAPAN:

Akkord Music Production

Hiroko Takahashi

e-mail: info@rachma-nia.com

+81-70-1266-0037

www.rachma-nia.com

NORWAY

Jens R Christiansen, Eidsvoll, Norway

e-mail: jroac@online.no

+47-91121953

SOUTH AMERICA

Cultura Para Todos

Fernando Caller Salas

fercaller@yahoo.com.mx

tel. (+51) 993470327

POLAND & CHINA

Polish Circles of Art Festival in China

Wojciech Majewski

+48 503 690 517

biuro@kregisztuki.com