Rafał Kowalczyk

Kowalczyk simultaneously studied the piano, French horn, and harp. He is a graduate of the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz (piano class of Tatiana Shebanova and Jarosław Drzewiecki) as well as the Chopin University of Music in Warsaw (horn class of Aleksander Szebesczyk).

His numerous accolades awarded in music competitions and festivals include the 3rd prize in the Steinway Klavierspiel Wettbewerb in Hamburg (2000), the 4th prize in the 8th Silesian Piano Competition in Zabrze (2007), the 2nd prize in the 6th Brass Instruments Festival in Mielec (2007), and the Golden Parnassus award of the International Piano Forum ‘Bieszczady without Borders’.

Rafał Kowalczyk plays the horm at Szczecin’s Castle Opera and works as lecturer / piano accompanist at that city’s Academy of Art. As pianist and horn player, he has performed with such orchestras as the Polish Sinfonia Iuventus, Płock Symphony, Orchestra of the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera, philharmonic orchestras in Szczecin (Mieczysław Karłowicz Philharmonic), Częstochowa (Bronisław Huberman Philharmonic), Gorzów, Koszalin (Stanisław Moniuszko Philharmonic), and Poznań (Tadeusz Szeligowski Philharmonic).

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