Slawomir Dobrzanski - Piano

Slawomir Dobrzanski is a versatile pianist frequently performing as a soloist, chamber musician, and soloist with orchestras. He has per-formed extensively in Poland, Germany, Lithuania, Switzerland, Belgium, Paraguay, Peru, and throughout the United States.
Mr. Dobrzanski is a prizewinner of 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 Competi-tion in Wichita, KS (Grand Prize, and Piano Division Prize, 1993), and the Lincoln Symphony Young Artist Competition in Lincoln, NE (First Prize, 1993) and the University of Connecticut Concerto Competition (1998). He is also a recipient of the Donald DeLaski Artistic Fellowship Grant (2000).
Slawomir Dobrzanski graduated from the prestigious Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, Poland, where he was a student of Prof. Regina Smendzianka. In the years 1992-1994 he studied at the University of Kan-sas, and has taken part in international master classes at the International Festival of New Music at Darmstadt and the Lucerne Conservatory in Switzerland. In May 2001, Mr. Dobrzanski completed the Doctor of Musi-cal Arts degree in piano performance at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT under the tutelage of Neal Larrabee.
Mr Dobrzanski has recorded solo and chamber music by Lutoslawski, Szymanowski, Chopin, Malawski, Rybicki, Kisielewski, Tausig, and Brahms for Polish radio and public television in Wroclaw, Poland. His per-formance of the Saint-Saëns's Second Piano Concerto was broadcast live through Nebraska Public Television Station (1993). He also performed concerto repertoire with the "Connecticut Virtuosi" Chamber Orchestra, the "Amadeus" Orchestra, the "Leopoldinum" Orchestra, and the National Philharmonic Orchestra in Warsaw, Poland.
Active also as a pedagogue, Dr. Dobrzanski was a member of the music faculties at Concordia College in Moorhead, MN and the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, RI. Currently he works as Assistant Professor of Piano at Kansas State University in Manhattan, KS.
Mr. Dobrzanski’s recent appearances include concerts in New York City (at the Steinway Hall, The Kosciuszko Foundation, and the Pol-ish Consulate General), Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, FL, Buffalo, NY, Corpus Christi and El Paso, TX and many others.