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Katarzyna Borek is an outstanding pianist of the Polish young generation. She has performed since she was very young, receiving laudatory reviews from musical authorities as well as praise from international audiences. Katarzyna proved her artistry by receiving awards in many prestigious international piano competitions (a laureate of the International Paderewski Competition in Bydgoszcz and the International Chopin Competition in Moscow, a finalist of the International Busoni Competition in Bolzano which is considered as one of the largest piano competitions) and by participating in numerous festivals , most notably the International Paderewski in Memoriam Festival in Warsaw, the Polish Piano Festival in Słupsk, the Europhony Festival in Bucharest, the Busoni Festival in Bolzano, the Polish Culture Festival in Luxembourg, the Chopin Opera Omnia Festival in the Baltic Philharmonic in Gdańsk and the Chopin Open Festival in the National Opera in Warsaw. She has performed in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Italy, Croatia, Russia, the Ukraine, Romania, China, Singapore, Vietnam, Peru and Cuba. For many years she was represented by the Paderewski in Memoriam Foundation in Warsaw. She has represented Poland on many prestigious occasions - among others during the International Summit of European Union and Latin America in Lima 2008 and in the European Parliament in Brussels. The artist likes to participate in projects that combine music with other branches of art. Her project "Chopin and Visualization" has won the Belgian "Young New Talents 2009" competition and has been performed many times in Poland, as well as abroad. In 2010 she was invited to participate in the Gala of the Stage Song Festival in Wrocław - in the musical play "...Revolutionary" directed by Agata Duda-Gracz. She was also a part of Sławek Jaskułke's "Chopin for Five Pianos" jazz project at the Expo in Shanghai. In 2010 she received the Prize of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage "Young Poland".

 


 

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