Jacek Kortus
Born on July 12th,1988. He is currently a piano student at the Music Academy in Poznan under Prof. Waldemar Andrzejewski who’s been taking care of him for 10 years. He is the prize winner of eleven piano competitions for young performers. Here are the major ones: 1st prize at the 9th Piano Competiton “Chopin for the Youngest” in Antonin (2005)
1st prize at the National Ludwik Stefanski Piano Competition in Plock (2002)2nd prize at the 1st Wlodzimierz Kedra Chopin Competition in Lodz (2002) - 1st prize was not granted
2nd prize at the National Paderewski Piano Competition in Piotrkow Trybunalski (2000)
3rd prize at the International Chopin Competition in Szafarnia (1999)
In 2002 he got a scholarship from the Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski and the First lady Jolanta Kwasniewska Foundation “Young Talents Aid” and the scholarship from the Polish Minister of Culture.In 2003 he was the finalist of the Stefan Seiler Piano Competition in Kitzingen and in 2004 the winner of the special award at the 6th International “Artur Rubinstein in Memoriam” Piano Competition in Bydgoszcz. A year later, in October 2005 he became the finalist of the 15th International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, as the second Polish pianist who entered the finals. After the Competition success he’s invited frequently to perform in many cultural centers all over the world both for recitals and orchestral concerts. Up to now he performed more than 100 times in the USA, Brazil, Germany, Belgium, Italy and all major Polish philharmonic societies. In December 2007 his first CD with Liszt and Chopin’s sonatas will be realesd by Polskie Nagrania – the main Polish national phonographic company.