Maria Agata Szymanowska (1789-1831)
Op.6 6 Minuets (1819-20)
00:01 Allegretto
03:44 Quasi Allegro
07:32 Moderato
11:14 Vivace
15:07 Allegro
20:42 Vivace
Piano : Sławomir Dobrzański
Rec : 2011-12 Poland Studio
■ Biography
Sławomir Pawel Dobrzański (born 11 May 1968) is a Polish-American pianist, teacher and musicologist.
He was born in Wrocław (Poland). He is a graduate of the Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, where he studied with Regina Smendzianka, Andrzej Dutkiewicz and Jerzy Maciejewski. He also studied privately with Kajetan Mochtak in Warsaw. In 1992-1994 he studied at the University of Kansas in Lawrence with Jack Winerock. He also participated in summer courses in Switzerland and Poland, where he studied piano performance with Malcolm Frager, Mieczysław Horszowski and Victor Merzhanov. Additionally, he benefited from coaching sessions with Nina Tichman in Mainz, Germany, and Jan Gorbaty in New York City. In 2001, he graduated with the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Connecticut, where he was a student of Neal Larrabee and Zelma Bodzin.
Dobrzański has taken part in numerous music festivals, both as a lecturer and concert artist, among others at the International Festival of New Music in Darmstadt (1989), "Warsaw Autumn" (1990), List-Glenn Festival at California State University in Los Angeles, CA (1990, 1999), Chopin Festival in Hawaii (1993), Mid-West Society of Composers Conference in Edmond, OK (1993), Potomac River Piano Festival in Great Falls, VA (VA, 1999), the International Chopin Piano Festival for Young Pianists in Wrocław (2000), Szymanowski Festival in Beijing (2011) and "Interfest Bitola" in Macedonia (2013).
Dobrzański is the founder and former artistic director of the Chopin Society of Connecticut established in 1998. He frequently performs as soloist and chamber musician in Europe, South America, China, and throughout the United States. Dobrzański was a member of the "Atma" Piano Trio, with Blanka Bednarz (violin) and Cheung Chau (cello). The ensemble, created in 2001, regularly performed in Europe, Asia and the US.
Dobrzański has won several competitions for young artists such as the MTNA Wurlitzer Collegiate Artist Competition in Spokane, WA (1993, National First Runner-up), the Naftzger Young Artist Competition in Wichita, KS (Grand Prize, and Piano Division Prize, 1993), the Lincoln Symphony Young Artist Competition in Lincoln, NE (First Prize, 1993) and the University of Connecticut Concerto Competition (1998).
For his contributions to Polish and Polish-American culture, in 2016 the pianist was honored by the Government of the Republic of Poland with the title "Meritorious for Polish Culture".
In 2021, he won "The Outstanding Teacher Award" sponsored by the Kansas Music Teachers Association.
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