dr hab. Piotr Kędzierski
Piotr Kędzierski – pianist, composer and music theorist. He graduated from the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw. As a holder of a two-year Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst scholarship, he completed postgraduate Konzertexamen programme for the piano at the Hochschule für Musik Köln. He also graduated from postgraduate programme in contemporary chamber music in Köln, where he obtained a Kammermusikexamen diploma. In the years 2006-2008 he pursued doctoral studies at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw. He earned his PhD in 2010. From 2007 until 2012 he worked at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, and in 2013-2016 was assistant professor at the Academy of Music in Łódź. Since 2013, he has been working at the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Krakow. In 2019 he obtained habilitation degree.
Piotr Kędzierski wrote over thirty compositions for diverse sets of instruments, which have been performed for two decades i.a. in Germany, Poland, Australia, England, Estonia and Spain. Special place in his oeuvre take compositions for two pianos, piano six hands, piano four hands as well as piano left hand. Piotr Kędzierski has collaborated with such composers and performers as Krzysztof Meyer, Zbigniew Bargielski, James Reynolds, Jan Pilch, Johannes Fritsch, Paulo Alvares, Carola Bauckholt, and Elżbieta Sikora. The pianist has premiered and recorded works for Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Feedback Studio Köln, Deutsche Welle, Funkhaus Europa, TV Polonia, as well as for Polish Radio Two.
Piotr Kędzierski is the author of papers of musical topics, i.a. Über den Zweig der Salonmusik in den Werken von Chopin im Kontext des Klavierstücks (Frankfurt am Main, 2010), Konwencja i rozwój w muzyce (UMFC, 2010), Über humanistische Werte in ausgewählten Werken Alexander Skrjabins (Frankfurt am Main 2012), Aleatoryczne Ludus musicalis w muzyce kameralnej (AM Bydgoszcz 2016), Dekonstrukcja i deformacja w muzyce aleatorycznej – przejaw brzydoty? (ASP Łódź 2016), Twórczość fortepianowa Grażyny Bacewicz a idiom pianistyczny w muzyce Witolda Lutosławskiego (AM Łódź 2016).
Since 2009, he and Justyna Piękoś formed the Sonami Piano Duo, which performs contemporary music in Poland and abroad. The Duo makes recordings of polish music for two pianos and piano four hands, i.a. on Mosaic CD (2019, AMKP), Near-Far CD (2022, DUX) and Mosaic 2 CD (2025, SPMK) on which there are compositions that have not been recorded nor released before, and some of them have been written only recently.
On the occasion of the entrance of Poland into the European Union, he was honored by the Polish Consulate General in Cologne for his efforts to popularize Polish culture in Europe.
Translation: Xymena Pietraszek