Maciej Zagórski

Maciej Zagórski is a pianist and teacher, and is a laureate of the Paderewski Piano Competition in Bydgoszcz (1986) and the Polish Piano Festival in Słupsk (1990). He has a particular interest in Polish piano music from the pre-Chopin era and in contemporary works, with a repertoire that also includes numerous pieces by Chopin, the complete transcriptions by Bach/Busoni, and a selection of sonatas by Schubert, as well as others. He has performed as a soloist with orchestras including the South Bend Symphony, Sinfonia Varsovia, the Warsaw Philharmonic and the Częstochowa Philharmonic, and in solo and chamber music recitals in Europe, Japan, Palestine, Russia and the United States. He has recorded two recitals of French, German and Polish songs with mezzo-soprano Katarzyna Suska.

Maciej Zagórski studied in Częstochowa at the Music School, in Warsaw at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music, and in Vienna at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst. His teachers were Henryka Zasempa-Kozera, Kazimierz Gierżod, Maria Stojek, Krystyna Borucińska and Walter Fleischmann. He also attended piano masterclasses with Peter Eicher, Wiktor Mershanow, Rudolf Kehrer, Lev Natochenny and Arkady Aronov.

For ten years, Zagórski has worked with the Piano Department of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. He has been associated with the Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa since 1991 (a university professor since 2008) where he currently serves as President of the Music Council.