Bogdan Czapiewski

Bogdan Czapiewski was born in 1949 and studied the piano with Zbigniew Śliwiński at the Academy of Music in Gdańsk and with Jan Ekier at the Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw. As a scholarship recipient of the Kościuszko Foundation, he also worked under György Seboka at the Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington. Bogdan Czapiewski was a finalist in several international piano competitions, including the 1975 Busoni Competition in Bolzano, 1975 Viana da Motta Competition in Lisbon and 1976 Montreal Piano Competition. In 1987 he was awarded the Grand Prix de Disque Liszt at the international recording contest in Budapest. He has recorded extensively in Poland, Germany, Belgium, France and Japan. His latest solo recording of piano sonatas by Rachmaninov, Prokofiev and Serocki received the highest prize awarded by the Polish Phonographic Academy, The Fryderyk. He has toured Europe, Asia, North America and Australia and appeared on the world’s most prestigious concert stages, including those of Paris, Zurich, Geneva, Copenhagen, Brussels and St Petersburg. He currently serves as professor of piano at the Academy of Music in Gdańsk.