Success for HfMT pianist

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Zuzanna Pietrzak, Master's student in Prof. Hubert Rutkowski's piano class, is a finalist in the 50th National Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw

The National Chopin Piano Competition was held for the first time in 1968 and is the most important nationwide piano competition in Poland. The organizer is the International Chopin Institute. The competition takes place every year and is aimed at Polish students and pupils. Among the prize winners are Krystian Zimerman and Rafał Blechacz.
Zuzanna Pietrzak reached the final after two successful recital rounds. As a finalist, she played the Piano Concerto in E minor by Frédéric Chopin with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra.

Vita:

Zuzanna Pietrzak was born in Łódź, Poland, in 1997 and began playing the piano at the age of seven. She completed her bachelor's degree at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw. She has been studying at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama in Prof. Hubert Rutkowski's class since October 2019.
At the age of 18, she performed at the 17th International Chopin Competition in Warsaw in 2015. Thanks to this success, she was able to perform in many countries in the following years, including Germany, Poland, England, France, Italy, Japan and Morocco. She has performed at various international festivals, including the "Chopin and His Europe" festival in Warsaw, the Chopin Festival in Duszniki-Zdrój, the Rubinstein Piano Festival in Łódź, the Kyoto International Music Students Festival and EXPO 2015 in Milan. During the 2018 Mendelssohn Festival in Hamburg, she won the competition and played Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Concerto in E flat major with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra. Zuzanna is a scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture and Heritage in Poland, the Łódź Voivodeship, the Yamaha Foundation and the Rotary Club Hamburg-Steintor.