Contestant

Andrzej Wierciński was born in Warsaw in 1995 and developed his piano skills at the Zenon Brzewski General Music School in Warsaw (2010-2014). He graduated with distinction from the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice in the piano class of Professor Wojciech Świtała (2014-2019) and in 2020 received a postgraduate diploma in piano at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg under the supervision of Professor Pavel Gililov. In June 2024 he graduated from the Royal College of Music in London where he studied with Professor Norma Fisher for the Artist Diploma in Performance of Music. In earlier years he was a recipient of the Krystian Zimerman, Yamaha Foundation Scholarships and the F. Wybrańczyk Artistic Scholarship of the Sinfonia Varsovia Foundation. He has collaborated with KAWAI and Japan Arts, which invited him to Asia of several tours.
Andrzej has won 1st Prize in numerous international and national piano competitions, including at the: Saint-Priest International Piano Competition in France (2019), First International Music Competition in Vienna (2019); Masters Neapolitan Piano Competition (Naples, 2018); International Chopin Competition “Golden Ring” in Slovenia (2014); International Chopin Competition in Budapest (2014); and the Polish National Chopin Competition (2015). He has also been a significant prize winner at other prestigious piano competitions, such as the: American Ignacy Jan Paderewski International Piano Competition (Los Angeles, 2022); Hong Kong International Piano Competition (2019); International Competition in Tbilisi (2017); International Competition “Halina Czerny-Stefańska in memoriam” (Poznań, 2014). Andrzej was a semi-finalist of the 18th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw (2021). Andrzej has made a name for himself as a mature artist with an excellent technical technique that allows him to create sound very freely. Andrzej has benefited from musical interactions with eminent concert artists like Dmitri Alexeev, Rafał Blechacz, Andrzej Jasiński, Piotr Paleczny, Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń, Dang Thai Son and Danil Trifonov.
In recent years Andrzej has given recitals in most European countries as well as in Brazil, Canada, China, Indonesia, Japan, Singapore and USA. In January 2022, he performed in Dubai, where he gave 23 Chopin piano recitals during the EXPO. In 2015, Andrzej accompanied the President of Poland Bronisław Komorowski on his visit to Japan and performed a Chopin recital in Tokyo in the presence of Princess Masako Owada. In the United Kingdom Andrzej has played at Hatchlands Park in the Cobbe Collection series of piano recitals on historic pianos, for the Chopin Society of UK and at the Polish Cultural Centre (POSK), as well as in many live streamed recitals at St. Mary’s Perivale. Andrzej has performed piano concertos with several big orchestras. They include Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto in the National Philharmonic Hall in Warsaw with the Sinfonia Iuventus in 2022, and Chopin’s F-minor Piano Concerto in Darmstadt with the Deutsche Philharmonie Merck Orchestra in 2023.
In 2016 the Fryderyk Chopin National Institute in Warsaw released Andrzej’s first CD of solo works by Chopin, Schumann, Scarlatti. In 2025 he will be recording a further solo CD.