Professor Jerzy Sterczyński

Born in 1957. Began to learn the piano when he was six. Fin­ished Music High School in Bielsko-Biała, stud­ied at the Katow­ice Acad­emy of Music in Pro­fes­sor Andrzej Jasiński’s class and grad­u­ated with hon­ours in 1981. He then con­tin­ued his train­ing in Lon­don with John Bingham.

He won the first prize at the Young Per­form­ers prize at the Pol­ish Piano Fes­ti­val in Słupsk and the sec­ond prize at the Inter­na­tional Music Com­pe­ti­tion in Saragossa (1983). He is a very active con­cert per­former. He has played in Aus­tria, Bul­garia, China, Czech Repub­lic, France, Spain, South Korea, Kuwait, Ger­many, Por­tu­gal and Italy. He has taken part in the Chopin Fes­ti­val in Duszniki and also in fes­ti­vals in Lock­en­haus and La Chaise-Dieu.

Record­ings occupy a spe­cial place in his artis­tic work. Jerzy Ster­czyński has recorded 13 com­pact discs with all Chopin’s noc­turnes, waltzes and polon­aises as well as his Sonata No. 2 and sev­eral small pieces. He has also recorded solo works by Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Reger and Szy­manowski, and Chopin’s, Lessl’s and Dobrzyński’s con­cer­tos. His lat­est record, released in 2005, con­tains Józef Wieniawski’s solo and cello sonatas.

Jerzy Ster­czyński has been a pro­fes­sor at the Fry­deryk Chopin Uni­ver­sity of Music in War­saw since 1989. He was dean of the Depart­ment of Piano, Harp­si­cord and Organ in 2005–2008. He was re-elected for term 2008–2012.