Waldemar Malicki PIANO SHOW at www.artegemini.com

Born in 1958, the eminent Polish pianist, Waldemar Malicki, was graduated with distinction from the Academy of Music in Gdansk in 1981 where he studied with the legendary Jerzy Sulikowski. Mr. Malicki has performed in master classes with Paul Badura-Skoda, Jorg Demus and Victor Merzhanov. He is a prizewinner of the national Polish piano competitions in 1980 and 1982 in Warsaw and Slupsk, and was awarded First Prize at The Vienna Musikseminar in 1982. In great demand as a soloist for his remarkable virtuosity and musical intensity, Mr. Malicki has performed throughout Europe, North and South America, Russia and Japan. He has joined distinguished Polish violinists and singers, including Teresa Zylis-Gara and Stefania Toczyska, in memorable performances of chamber music. Mr. Malicki has recorded 35 CD`s of solo and chamber works for Polskie Nagrania, Polton and Dux (Poland), Pavane (Belgium), Adda and Accord (France), Koch Records, Schwann and Wergo (Germany) as well as Pony Canyon (Japan). He has also recorded numerous piano concerti with the Polish Radio and Television Orchestras in Krakow and Katowice, and toured as soloist with a number of Polish orchestras. Mr. Malicki was three times awarded a "Fryderyk" - the polish version of a Grammy. Music education is important to Mr. Malicki and he is widely acclaimed for his outstanding master classes in Scandinavia, North and South America and Japan. He is the author and solo performer of a popular polish television series. These programs, which are conducted in a style reminiscent of Leonard Bernstein and Glen Gould, analyze different types of musical phenomena, often using improvisation as a means of illustration. Mr. Malicki also performs recitals of piano improvisation in the virtuoso style of the Nineteenth Century, complete with light-hearted narration and humorous commentary. The first President of the Paderewski Society,Mr. Malicki is currently the Artistic Director of the Festival of Musical Humor in southern Poland.

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Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
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