Artur Slotwinski - Complete Piano Sonatas (2023) Hi-Res

Artur Slotwinski was born in Warsaw in 1990. He graduated Frederic Chopin University ofMusic in Composition and Music Theory withProf. Ph. D. Pawel Lukaszewski and Prof. Ph. D.Stanislaw Moryto in 2014.

He also graduated Music High School at Piano (Zenon Brzewski 2nd grade MusicSchool, 2009) with Prof. Ph. D. AnnaJastrzebska-Quinn. During studies at Chopin University he took several masterclasses and regular lessons with Anna Jastrzebska-Quinn,Emilian Madey, Maria Gabrys and Deirdre O’Donohue (2014 Masterclass at ChopinUniversity). In the past he took also masterclasses with Piotr Paleczny (2008), Edward Auer(2007). Between 2001 and 2006 he took regular piano lessons with Ewa Bogucka in Warsaw: at Karol Kurpinski 1st Grade Music School & Emil Mlynarski 1st Grade Music School which he graduated in 2006.

As a pianist he regularly plays concerts at Chopin Point Warsaw Concert Hall and also recitals with music of Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Liszt, Chopin, Rachmaninov and also his own compositions. He is currently empoleed at Frederic Chopin University Of Music as an accompanistat conducting division where he plays choral and orchestral reductions with conductors. He has an excellent well trained ability of a prima vista reading - without preparation he reads piano reductions at his work at FCUM conducting classes (eg. Verdi’s Requiem sight reading dailyduties).

At FCUM concert hall between 2017 and 2019 he presented his own restorations of Piano Concertos by Sowinski, Mirecki and Krogulski (brillant Chopin style) and also gave regularconcerts in Grojec Centre of Culture (each month 1-hour recital) with music of baroque, classical,romantic and contemporary era & also at Centre Culture Promotion in Warsaw.

In 2018 he took part in Piano Compeition „Japan Piano Open“ in Tokyo & also in 2019 heparticipated in Piano Competition MozArte in Aachen. In 2021 he took part also in the PianoCompetition „Wernigerode Neue Sterne” in Germany.

As a composer he is an author of symphonic works, 2 piano concertos, 2 piano sonatas,chamber and film music [more at: www.arturslotwinski.com]. For his output as a composer he wasgiven numerous prizes (14) and scholarships, eg. in 2020 he was given a scholarship to record pianoworks by W. A. Sowinski, Polish Chopin era composer; other scholarships: Ministry of Culture andNational Heritage, Ministry of Science & Higher Education, Societe Generale Bank (2008, 2010-2012, 2018).

He is an author of restorations of early romantic period Polish piano concertos by W.Sowinski and J. W. Krogulski which he presented at Frederic Chopin University of Music.Concertos were reconstructed based on 1-piano reductions so the accompaniments had to becomposed and orchestrated and piano tuttis also were orchestrated. He also gave world premiere ofAdagio and Allegro by Polish late classical composer F. Mirecki in 2018. All of these works werepresented with orchestra at Frederic Chopin University in Warsaw with Artur Slotwinski as a

soloist; Krogulski’s 2nd Concerto were premiered along with Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra alongwith Slotwinski’s Symphony no. 2 „Angstroms Symphony“ under the baton of J. Praszczalek.