Born in 1969 to Polish-Hungarian parents, Mr. Anderszewski began playing the piano at the age of six and studied at the Lyon and Strasbourg Conservatories, the University of Southern California, and the Chopin Academy in Warsaw. His international career was launched at London’s Wigmore Hall in 1991 with a recital featuring Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations. In 2002, Piotr Anderszewski became the recipient of the prestigious 2002 Gilmore Artist Award as only the fourth pianist to have been so honoured. Mr. Anderszewski’s worldwide orchestral engagements have included performances with the Munich Philharmonic, London Symphony, Orchestre National in Paris, Vienna Radio Symphony, the London Philharmonia, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Warsaw Philharmonic, and the Australian Chamber Orchestra, among others. He made his U.S. orchestral debut during the 2000-01 season with the Detroit Symphony and his New York orchestral debut in 2002 at the Mostly Mozart Festival. Among the distinguished conductors with whom Mr. Anderszewski has collaborated are Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos, Markus Stenz, Claus Peter Flor, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Christopher Hogwood, Charles Dutoit and Emmanuel Krivine.
Mr. Anderszewski has appeared in recital in most of the major European venues, from London’s Wigmore and Queen Elizabeth halls to the Thèatre des Champs Elysees and Thèatre de la Ville in Paris and Vienna’s Musikverein. His recitals in Chicago and Ann Arbor in the fall of 2001 were enthusiastically received and he returns to Chicago in June, 2002 replacing Daniel Barenboim on the Chicago Symphony’s Piano Recital Series.
In addition to England’s Cheltenham Festival, Mr. Anderszewski’s festival appearances have included Norway’s Bergen International Festival; Scotland’s Edinburgh International Festival; and, in France, La Roque d’Anthéron Festival International de Piano. His 2001-02 season included performances with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonic de Radio France and the BBC Symphony; recitals at Tokyo’s Opera City Hall and at the Lucerne Festival; and summer festival appearances in England, France, Germany, Italy, and Portugal.
In 2002-03, Mr. Anderszewski is scheduled to make his debuts with the orchestras of Atlanta, Cincinnati, Montreal, and Oregon and he will also perform in recital in San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver, and at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Highlights of his 2002-03 season in Europe include performances with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, the Camerata Salzburg, and the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, and recitals in Paris, Vienna, Hamburg and Budapest as well as throughout Italy and the UK.
Piotr Anderszewski recorded four discs before he became an exclusive Virgin Classics artist in 2000. His first release on that label (2001) - Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations - earned a Diapason d’Or and Le Choc Monde de la Musique in France and is receiving major critical recognition in the UK and the US. His latest release for Virgin is a disc of Mozart piano concerti with the Sinfonia Varsovia featuring Anderszewski as both player and director.
In 2001, Piotr Anderszewski was awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society’s “Best Instrumentalist” Award. This award was given for his concerto and chamber music performances throughout the UK, in particular at the 2000 Cheltenham Festival, where he was artist in residence. He has also received the prestigious Szymanowski Prize for his interpretation of that composer’s music and has been the recipient of support from the Miami based Patrons for Exceptional Artists Foundation.
