Lidia Grychtołówna

Lidia Grychtołówna ( born July 18, 1928 in Rybnik ) is a Polish pianist.

Life

At the age of five, she first appeared in their hometown Rybnik ( Upper Silesia ) in a public concert. At the Music Academy of Katowice it reached its conclusion as a pianist with the highest honors. My professor was among other, Zbigniew Drzewiecki. Her talent caught the attention of the great pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, who has invited them immediately and not just once to his master classes to Bolzano.

Lidia Grychtołówna was winner of four international competitions for pianists: the V. Chopin Competition in Warsaw (1955), the Robert Schumann Competition in Berlin ( 1956), the Busoni Competition in Bolzano / Bozen (1958 ) and the competition in Rio de Janeiro (1959).

For her talent she received the "Gold Medal " of the city of Milan. Her performances have taken her to the Ancient Theater in Taormina and the Herod Atticus Odeon at the foot of the Acropolis, in the underground palace of Diocletian in Split, in the courtyard of the Rector's Palace in Dubrovnik and the Palais des nations in Geneva, in the halls of famous Dresden Zwinger and in Chopin's birthplace in Zelazowa Wola. She played in Rio de Janeiro, where the mercury climbed up to 40 ° C as well as in Novosibirsk at -40 ° C, in 3000 m altitude in Quito in Ecuador and the Netherlands in Amsterdam. She played in the Far East in Canton Shanghai, Tokyo, Osaka, and at the Arctic Circle in Finnish climes. But who preferred to experience them in warmer areas, this could in Vienna, London, Oslo, Bergen, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Prague, Berlin, Bucharest, Budapest, Belgrade, Zagreb, Sofia and Santiago de Chile, Caracas, Havana, Rome, Palermo, Bogota, and of course in all the cities of their native Poland. Concert tours have taken them three times through many cities in the United States, Latin America, Thailand and Australia. She was the first pianist who in England and Belgium, the Piano Concerto no. Had 4 listed for the left hand by Sergei Prokofiev. In Germany she made at Philipps a gramophone recording of the forgotten piano concert by the then 14- year-old Beethoven. Since 1980, Lidia Grychtołówna constantly as a jury member in international competitions while Chopin: Warsaw (also the penultimate in October 2005), Göttingen, Darmstadt and Miami. In 2002 she was a jury member at the International Piano Competition in Monza / Milan and 2003, while the Asian Piano Competition in Japan / Tokyo. Since 1986 she has a permanent professor of piano at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. They also often leads master classes for piano in Japan ( Tokyo ), China ( Beijing) and the USA (New York and Texas), where she also 2002, 2003 and 2005 played a series of concerts.

In the Paris critics magazine " Diapason " ( Nr.152/1970 ) a critic rated their recording session at the Polskie Nagrania with DG with all Impromptus and scherzo by Chopin as follows:

In 2005, Lidia Grychtołówna one of the highest Polish Awards was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross Commandoria.