Photo Wojciech Grzędziński

Jury member

Andrzej Jasiński

Pianist and one of the most distinguished teachers of piano in the world. Invited to sit on the juries of the biggest music competitions; chairman of the jury at the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 2000 and 2005.

Jasiński graduated with honours from the State College of Music in Katowice in the class of Władysława Markiewiczówna and perfected his skills with Magda Tagliaferro in Paris. In 1960, he won the Grand Prix of the Maria Canals International Piano Music Competition in Barcelona. In the following year, he appeared with the RAI National Symphony Orchestra in Turin directed by Carlo Zecchi. Since that time, he has performed throughout Europe, as well as in Uruguay, Brazil, the United States and Japan. He played in a duo with pianist Józef Stompel and the wind quintet of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra. The artist has made a number of archival recordings for Polish Radio with the Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw and the Grand Symphony Orchestra of Polish Radio and Television in Katowice.

Jasiński has been teaching at his alma mater since 1962 and he also lectured at the Hochschule für Musik in Stuttgart between 1979 and 1982. He has conducted master classes in Imola, Salzburg, Stuttgart, Berlin, Hamburg, Paris, Brussels, Madrid, Amsterdam, Bilbao, Linz, Graz, Vienna, Château de La Hulpe, Fribourg, Trecastagni, Fermo, Majorca, as well as in Japan, Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina, South Africa, the United States, Israel and Taiwan. He has trained numerous concert pianists, including Krystian Zimerman, Joanna Domańska, Jerzy Sterczyński, Krzysztof Jabłoński, Magdalena Lisak, Zbigniew Raubo, Rafał Łuszczewski, Beata Bilińska and Stanisław Drzewiecki.

He has been a member of the juries of some of the most renowned competitions in the world, e.g. the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth, the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition in Bolzano and the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. Jasiński is the originator and artistic director of the Silesian Piano Competition in Zabrze. For many years, he has been a board member of the Fryderyk Chopin Society in Warsaw. Between 2005 and 2014, he was a member of the Programme Board of the Fryderyk Chopin Institute.

He has been awarded the Gold Medal for Merit to Culture ?Gloria Artis?, the Commission of National Education Medal and the Commander?s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. He has also received the Juliusz Ligoń Silesian Award, the Karol Miarka Award and the Silver Nike Award in the ?Education? category. The artist holds honorary degrees from the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice (2006), the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw (2007) and the Lviv National Music Academy named after Mykola Lysenko (2015).