Adam Harasiewicz

Adam Harasiewicz ( born July 1, 1932 in Chodzież near Poznań ) is a Polish pianist.

Life

Only at the age of 10 years Harasiewicz began to make music and first played the violin, and later piano. In 1947 he won the first prize for young artists in Rzeszów. At age seventeen he introduced himself for the first time the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw and not reüssierte. In 1950 he studied with Zbigniew Drzewiecki at the Music Academy of Krakow. When he had prevailed at the second attempt in 1955 against Vladimir Ashkenazy and Bernard Ringeissen and had become the first winners of the then most important piano competition, he went as a pupil of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. In 1957 he was the Harriet Cohen International Music Award in London for Best Artist of the Year.

He was and is a judge at the International Piano Competition Ferruccio Busoni in Bolzano ( 1984), the Pilar Bayona Competition in Saragossa ( 1987), the Casagrande Competition in Terni (1989 ) and "his" Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw (1995, 2010 ).

Harasiewicz one of the great Chopin players and often performs works of his compatriot Karol Szymanowski. He has performed, among others, in Austria, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, England, the Soviet Union / Russia, Italy, USA, Japan, Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey, the Netherlands, France, Mexico, Vietnam and Iran.