Chopin Society of Atlanta

Stanislaw Drzewiecki went on his first concert tour to Japan at the age
of six, during which he played with Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra
conducted by Volker Schmidt-Gertenbach. The following year witnessed
his debut at Witold Lutoslawski Polish Radio Concert Studio in Warsaw,
where he performed with the same renown ensemble under the baton
of Grzegorz Nowak. Since then, he has appeared in many famous concert
venues in London (Victoria& Albert Museum), Bergen (Grieg Hall),
Tallinn (Estonia Hall), Vienna (Schonbrunn Palace), Amsterdam (Het
Concertgebouw), Mexico City (Palacio de Bellas Artes), Canada (Queen
Elizabeth Hall in Vancouver, Winspear Centre in Edmonton), the United
States (Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Chicago Symphony
Hall, Gusman Hall in Miami, Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, Lincoln
Center in NY) and Japan (Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall, Suntory
Hall, Metropolitan Art Space in Tokyo, Orchard Hall, Yokohama Minato
Mirai).

On January 26, 2003 Stanislaw Drzewiecki performed with great success
in the world’s most prestigious venue - Carnegie Hall (Isaac
Stern Auditorium) in New York, and received enthusiastic reactions
of the audience and musical critics.



Darrell
Rosenbluth from New York Concert Review,
wrote:

“(...) As though refreshed by the audience’s tumultuous
reception of the Chopin group, Mr. Drzewiecki brought down the house
with Liszt’s “Six Grand Etudes Apres Paganini”.
Violinists, eat your hearts out ! (...)”.

Roman
Markowicz (Polish Daily News) comments:

“(...) What is impressive in Drzewiecki’s playing
from the very beginning is mainly a gorgeous sound which he can
bring out of the instrument as well as similarly nicely shaped phrase.
I could sense the elegance and ease in his playing that bring to
mind the greatest pianists in history. It was now a masterly version
that we had not heard for a long time at this or other stages in
New York!”.

James
R.Oestreich from The New York Times /26.04.2005/,
wrote:

"[…] The main point of interest on Sunday, in a program
including Lutoslawski's, Tchaikovsky's, was a performance of Chopin's
First Piano Concerto with the 17-year-old Stanislaw Drzewiecki as
soloist. […] Mr. Drzewiecki proved remarkably assured and
in complete command of the piece: its pensive and lyrical passages
as well as its digital acrobatics."



Stanislaw Drzewiecki released his first CD (Piano Concertos-
Bach, Mozart, Beethoven) at the age of ten. The subsequent
two CD’s were nominated for a Fryderyk Award in 1998,
1999 and 2000. The forth CD with Chopin’s Piano concerto
in E minor and 12 Etiudes, gained the “golden”
status, he recorded with Sinfonia Varsovia and Grzegorz Nowak in
the year 2000.

The pianist, accompanied again
by Sinfonia Varsovia under the baton of Michael Zilm,
is currently working on a new recording project with Mozart’s
Piano Concertos for one, two and three pianos, which will be produced
in SACD system. In 2002 he also signed the contract with Sony
Classical.

The artist has also been invited
to concerts inaugurating prestigious cultural events: the concert
season in Basel, Chopin Festival in Canada, Europalia –
Poland 2001 in Belgium, Days of Polish Music 2002 in Austria, Festival
de Radio France et de Montpellier, Denmark Radio Festival in Copenhagen,
6th Festival Cultural de Mayo at Teatro Degollado in Guadalajara
with Filharmonica de Jalisco under Maestro Fernando Lozano.
In 2004 he inaugurated the concert season with Yomiuri Nippon Symphony
Orchestra at Sapporo Concert “Kitara” Hall, Japan. In
February 2005 he performed with the same orchestra in Suntory Hall
and Metropolitan Art Space in Tokyo led by Alexander Lazariev,
within the concert series presenting world’s most outstanding
conductors.

The repertoire of Stanislaw Drzewiecki includes 18 piano concertos,
his performance of which has features such prominent conductors
as Simon Young /Australia/, Jose Cura
/Argentina/, Vladimir Kiradijew /Bulgaria/, Jury
Alperten /Estonia/, Philippe Jordan /France/,
Justus Frantz /German/, Leonid Nikolayev,
Andrey Anikhanov /Russia/, Albert Kaiser,
Bruno Goetze /Switzerland/, Tatsunori Numajiri
/Japan/, Victoria Zhadko, Nicolai Dyadiura
/Ukraine/, Eduard Schmieder, Peter Dabrowski
/USA/ and Tomasz Bugaj, Agnieszka Duczmal,
Marek Pijarowski, Wojciech Rajski,
Tadeusz Strugala, Antoni Wit,
Tadeusz Wojciechowski.

In 2003 he made his debut as a composer by writing music to the
performance of The King of Alders, based
on the ballad by J. W. Goethe, commissioned by the Lalka
Theatre in Warsaw. In March 2005, he presented the
Polish audience with his latest piece Double Concerto
for Violin, Piano and String Orchestra. Stanislaw
Drzewiecki is the laureate of many prestigious awards, among which
there are: the Grand Prix Award in European Television Competition
in Alicante (1999), the 10th Eurovision Grand Prix
for Young Musicians in Bergen, the final concert of which
was viewed by 10 million people, (2000); he also became the youngest
laureate ever of the “Paszport Polityki” Award.
The artist is currently a student of the Warsaw Music Academy under
professor Andrzej Jasinski’s supervision.

He has also developed wide array of non-musical interests, such
as diving, aviation, plane modelling-work, and has some achievements
in those fields.