Assistant Professor Joanna Ławrynowicz-Just

Joanna Ławrynowicz-Just was born in War­saw in a fam­ily with multi­gen­er­a­tional musi­cal tra­di­tions.
She took up piano lessons at the age of four under Hanna Lacher­towa. She grad­u­ated with hon­ours from the Fry­deryk Chopin Acad­emy of Music in War­saw, class of Pro­fes­sor Teresa Man­aster­ska. After grad­u­a­tion she con­tin­ued her stud­ies under Prof. Halina Czerny-Stefańska until her death in 2001.
She is a lau­re­ate of numer­ous pres­ti­gious inter­na­tional piano com­pe­ti­tions: the “Steinway&Sons” Com­pe­ti­tion in Berlin (1990), the Chopin Com­pe­ti­tion in Darm­stadt (1999), the Halina Czerny-Stefańska Com­pe­ti­tion in Aji­ga­sawa (2000), the “Art Livre” Com­pe­ti­tion in Sao Paulo, Brasil (2001).
For over ten years she has run vivid con­cert activ­ity as a soloist and a cham­ber musi­cian all over the world (in Europe, Asia, both Amer­i­cas, New Zealand and oth­ers).
On her score­card she has many pres­ti­gious con­certs in Poland and abroad with out­stand­ing orches­tras and con­duc­tors.
As a pro­moter of Pol­ish music she has given numer­ous first per­for­mances and made many world first record­ings of piano works by Pol­ish com­posers from the 18th cen­tury to the present day.
As a Pol­ish pianist she can be proud of her great phono­graphic activ­ity. She has made over 20 CD record­ings. They are, e.g.: as the only Pol­ish artist, com­plete solo and cham­ber pieces by Chopin, com­plete works for vio­lin and piano, for solo piano and a piano con­certo by Romual Twar­dowski; com­plete cham­ber works and piano con­cer­tos by Hen­ryk Mel­cer; solo piano pieces by Władysław Żeleński; com­plete cham­ber pieces by Józef Elsner; cham­ber works by Zyg­munt Sto­jowski. Her record­ings are highly val­ued by music lovers and crit­ics, they gain great reviews and awards in renowned music mag­a­zines all over the world.
The artist is also an author of per­for­mance elab­o­ra­tions of piano pieces pub­lished by the Pol­ish Music Pub­lish­ers (PWM)
At present the pianist also runs teach­ing activ­ity hold­ing the post of adi­unkt (Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor) in piano class at the Fry­deryk Chopin Uni­ver­sity of Music in Warsaw.