Karol Radziwonowicz is a world-famous pianist educated in Poland and in the United States of America, who has performed throughout Europe, North and South America, Australia, and Asia. After graduating from the Chopin National Music Academy in Warsaw with the highest honors, Radziwonowicz was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship at the Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington during the academic year 1987-1988. A First Prize winner at the Paderewski Piano Competition in Warsaw and the Słupsk (Poland) Piano Competition, Karol Radziwonowicz also received the Audience Award at the Liszt International Piano Competition in Utrecht (The Netherlands) in 1986.

As a soloist, Radziwonowicz has shared the stage with such prestigious orchestras as the Warsaw National Philharmonic, National Orchestra of Polish Radio and Television, Sinfonia Varsovia (Poland), Neues Gewandhaus Grosses Rundfunkorchester (Germany), Orquesta Filarmonica de Bogota (Colombia), Estonian National Philharmonic, Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie Koblenz (Germany), St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra (Russia), Argentina Symphony Orchestra, and has been featured with concert orchestras in Vienna, Paris, Moscow, St. Petersburg, San Francisco, Berlin, Zurich, New York, Buenos Aires, Toronto, Tokyo, Delhi, and Sydney. He has collaborated with such renowned conductors as Kazimierz Kord, Jan Krenz, Jerzy Maksymiuk, Antoni Wit, Francisco Rettig, Stanisław Winiarczyk, Nicolai Alekseyev, Rasmus Bauman, and Alexander Chernushenko.

Radziwonowicz's solo appearances at international festivals include the Wratislavia Cantans and Duszniki-Zdrój Chopin Festivals (Poland), Liszt Festival in Utrecht (Holland), Saint-Cère and Musicora Festivals in Paris (France), International Tokyo Music Festival in Japan, Festival Europalia in Den Haag (The Netherlands), Festival d'été de Quebec (Canada), and Musical Kremlin Festival in Moscow (Russia), in addition to concert tours of Canada, Colombia, India, the United States, Mexico, Costa Rica, Cuba, Guatemala, San Salvador, Panama, Belize, and Japan.

One of Radziwonowicz's great successes was his performance at Carnegie Hall in New York on November 2001 for a concert with Sinfonia Varsovia commemorating the 60th anniversary of Ignacy Jan Paderewski's death. After that triumph, Radziwonowicz received an invitation to perform at the Musik Festspielehaus in Salzburg, Austria, in May 2003. Later that month, also with Sinfonia Varsovia, Radziwonowicz toured Japan with Chopin's Concerto in E minor, followed by concerts in Italy performing Rachmaninoff's and Prokofiev's piano concertos in October 2003. In November 2004 Radziwonowicz was invited to perform Mozart at the Berlin Philharmonic Concert Hall and his performance of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto opened the 2005 concert season of the Societé des Concerts de Fribourg in Switzerland. In May 2006, Radziwonowicz was the featured soloist in Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue at the Concertgebouw Hall in Amsterdam, one of the most prestigious concert venues in the world. During the last five years, in addition to his appearances as soloist and with orchestras in Poland, Austria, Ukraine, and Russia, Radziwonowicz has toured South America, Israel, and Vietnam.

Throughout his career, Karol Radziwonowicz has recorded for such companies as Tandem Classics, PIM Records, Selene, DUX, Le Chant du Monde, KOCH-Schwann Records, Polskie Nagrania- Muza, and EMI. He was the first pianist in the world to register the complete piano works of Ignacy Jan Paderewski on Selene Records, for whom he also recorded rarely-heard piano compositions by Polish composers Juliusz Zarębski and Karol Mikuli. Radziwonowicz's 3-CD set with the I Solisti di Varsavia orchestra of Chopin's music for piano and orchestra in a chamber music transcription was nominated for the prestigious Fryderyk Award by Poland's Recording Academy. In February 2010, a recording of Radziwonowicz's interpretations of Chopin's music was taken aboard the NASA Space Shuttle mission STS-130 to the International Space Station, an achievement marked by EMI's release of the disc "Chopin: the Space Concert."

A frequent guest lecturer, Karol Radziwonowicz has given a number of master classes at such universities as the Wrocław and Kraków Music Academies in Poland and the Petrozavodsk and Krasoyarsk Conservatories in Russia. He has served as a juror for the 1998 and 2001 editions of the Paderewski International Piano Competition in Bydgoszcz, Poland, the 2006 Chopin Competition for Young Pianists in Estonia, and currently as the Jury President of the Chopin's Golden Ring Piano Competition in Slovenia. Since its inception in 2004, Radziwonowicz has also served as President of the International Paderewski Music Society in Warsaw. In this capacity he has overseen a number of publications, international conferences and concerts held in Poland and abroad, and has served as Director and Curator of the Paderewski Museum at Łazienki Palace in Warsaw.

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Last update - march 2014