Artur Slotwinski was born in Warsaw in 1990. He is a Polish based pianist & composer, coach pianist at Conducting Division at Frederic Chopin University of Music Warsaw & Warsaw Chamber Operetta Chorus. He is also a principal pianist of Chopin University Chamber Choir & member of ZAiKS.

He graduated Frederic Chopin University of Music in Composition and Music Theory with Prof. Ph. D. Pawel Lukaszewski and Prof. Ph. D. Stanislaw Moryto in 2014.

He also graduated Music High School at Piano (Zenon Brzewski 2nd grade Music School, 2009) with Prof. Ph. D. Anna Jastrzebska-Quinn, Maria Sterczynska (chamber music) & Slawomir Czarnecki (composition) and also Irina Rumianceva and Ewa Bogucka (Karol Kurpinski/Emil Mlynarski Music Schools 2001-2006). During studies at Chopin University he studied piano with Anna Jastrzebska-Quinn, Emilian Madey, Maria Gabrys and Deirdre O’Donohue (2014 Masterclass at Chopin University). In the past he took also masterclasses with Piotr Paleczny (2008), Edward Auer(2007). In 2012 he participated in masterclasses with Boris Petrushansky in Wroclaw. He also studied piano improvisation with Szabolcs Esztenyi.

As a pianist he regularly plays concerts at Chopin Point Warsaw Concert Hall and also recitals with music of Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Liszt, Chopin, Rachmaninov and also his own compositions. 

At FCUM concert hall between 2017 and 2019 he presented his own restorations of Piano Concertos by Sowinski, Mirecki and Krogulski (brillant Chopin style) and also gave regularconcerts in Grojec Centre of Culture (each month 1-hour recital) with music of baroque, classical,romantic and contemporary era & also at Centre Culture Promotion in Warsaw.

In 2018 he took part in Piano Compeition „Japan Piano Open“ in Tokyo & also in 2019 he participated in Piano Competition MozArte in Aachen. In 2021 he took part also in the PianoCompetition „Wernigerode Neue Sterne” in Germany. Between 2022 and 2024 he participated in Piano Competitions in New York (7th Intl NTD Pno Comp), Busko Zdroj Tkaczewski Pno Comp and Munich Piano Competition 2023.

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As a composer he is an author of symphonic works, 2 piano concertos, 2 piano sonatas, chamber and film music. For his output as a composer he was given numerous prizes (14) and scholarships, eg. in 2020 he was given a scholarship to record piano works by W. A. Sowinski, Polish Chopin era composer; other scholarships: Ministry of Culture andNational Heritage, Ministry of Science & Higher Education, Societe Generale Bank (2008, 2010-2012, 2018).

He is an author of restorations of early romantic period Polish piano concertos by W. Sowinski and J. W. Krogulski which he presented at Frederic Chopin University of Music. Concertos were reconstructed based on 1-piano reductions so the accompaniments had to be composed and orchestrated and piano tuttis also were orchestrated. He also gave world premiere of Adagio and Allegro by Polish late classical composer F. Mirecki in 2018. All of these works were presented with orchestra at Frederic Chopin University in Warsaw with Artur Slotwinski as a

soloist; Krogulski’s 2nd Concerto were premiered along with Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra along with Slotwinski’s Symphony no. 2 „Angstroms Symphony“ under the baton of J. Praszczalek.

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In 2016/17 he studied film music orchestration & arranging at Hollywood Music Workshops in Austria and at FMF Cracow Film Festival workshops in Luslawice with: Daniel Carlin, Conrad Pope, TJ Lindgren, Nan Schwartz (see certificates on the left/photos). At that time he was a finalist of Transatlantyk and FMF competitions in Krakow, Poznan and Lodz. His film scores were adjudicated by J. A. P. Kaczmarek, H. G. Williams, D. Carlin, R. Townson (Transatlantyk ICC 2014, FMC 2016, FMF 2016).

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He also wrote film music for films such as: "Warsaw Rising" dir. by T. Dobosz, "In pieces" dir. by S. Gonera & "Rarepublic" by T. Dobosz, etc. Full list at: 

Artur Słotwiński - Filmweb

Artur Slotwinski - IMDb

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As an accompanist he collaborated with many professional and amateur choirs in Warsaw:„Animato“, „Chameleon“, „Amo Libertatem“, „Natolin College Of Europe Choir“ and many others. He was a prinicpal accompanist of the competition for youth choirs called „Singing Poland“. During 2018 Edition he accompanied a choir from whole Masovia consisting of over 1000 chorists; concert took place at W. Lutoslawski Polish Radio Concert Studio in Warsaw.

 

Chosen recitals 2015-2022 [with links to events archive]:

Chopin recital at „Świt“ Culture Centre in Warsaw, 2015: plakat.jpg (636×900) (dkswit.com.pl)

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Bach/Chopin recital at SGGW High School Concert Hall in Warsaw, 2017

Piano Recitals&Lectures at Grójec Culture Centre, 2018/19 (eg. Schubert Sonatas, Chopin recital, Bach,Beethoven, Rachmaninov, Liszt, Khachaturian, own compositions)

Archiwum (gokgrojec.pl)

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Paderewski Comemoration Concert at Steinway Piano Salon in Warsaw, 2018 (Paderewski Variations and Fugue inA-Minor & excerpts from Slotwinski’s 2nd Sonata)

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Bach Recital at Warsaw-Praga Distritct Culture Centre: Toccatas, Partita no. 1, Preludes&Fugues, 2018: CentrumPromocji Kultury - Archiwum (cpk.art.pl)

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World Premiere of W. Sowinski, Piano Concerto no. 1 in G-Minor, 2017 FCUM Concert hall PRAWYKONANIEKONCERTU FORTEPIANOWEGO g-moll op. 36 WOJCIECHA SOWIŃSKIEGO « UMFC (chopin.edu.pl)

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World Premiere of F. Mirecki Adagio&Allegro Concertans, 2018 FCUM Concert hall

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World Premiere of J. W. Krogulski Piano Concerto no. 2 in B-Minor, FCUM Concert Hall, 2019

Koncert symfoniczny - Polska Orkiestra Sinfonia Iuventus

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Chopin Recital at Praga-District Public Library, 2020

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Piano Recital at Grojec Centre of Culture, 11 XI 2021 (Bach, Chopin, Mozart)

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Chopin Recitals at Chopin Point Warsaw: 2021/2022 (regular concerts 3 times a month, 50 minutes each)

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Prizes and Awards (in classical modern composition contests):

• Ist prize on The National „Uczniowskie Forum Muzyczne” Composition Competition for „From Chaos into Cosmos” for chamber orchestra (Warsaw, 2008)

• IInd Prize on The National „Marian Gordiejuk in memoriam” Composition Competition for „Dali's Persistence of Memory” for chamber band (Bydgoszcz, 2008)

• Ist Prize on the National Composition Competition for the Harpsichord solo piece for „One Step Furhter” (Poznań, 2008; Poznan Academy Of Music Publication)

• Ist Prize on the 4th National Composition Competition for „The Mircacle of Creation” for orchestra (Stalowa Wola, 2008)

• IIIrd Prize on the Internarional Garden Music Composition Competition for „Fairy Song” for mezzosoprano and chamber orchestra

(Cracow, 2008), also in 2010 at the next edition of that competition Artur was given an award for „Not Only One Garden's Face” for soprano and chamber orchestra

• III Prize on The National „Uczniowskie Forum Muzyczne” Composition Competition for „Celingophony” for chamber orchestra (Warsaw, 2009)

• IIIrd Prize on the National Composition Competition „Witold Szalonek in Memoriam” for „Concors discordia” for strings (Katowice, 2009)

• II Prize on Grzegorz Fitelberg National Composition Competition for CREDO Symphony part 1 for great symphonic orchestra

• IIIrd Prize on Zygmunt Mycielski National Composition Competition for „From the deepest deep” for orchestra (the piece was performed during Warsaw Autumn Contemporary Music Festival in 2012)

• Ist Prize on IXth International Musica Sacra Composers Competition for “Seven Last Words Of Christ” for mixed choir, Częstochowa 2013

• Ist Prize on Opus966 Composers Competition for Baptismós for mixed choir (Poznań 2014)

• IInd Prize [Ist not awarded] on IIIrd Krzysztof Penderecki Composition Competition in Sopot for „Urban games” for string orchestra (July 2015)

• IIIrd Prize on 1st Opus Dissonus Piano Composition Competition in Brazil (Oct 2015)

• Zygmunt Mycielski Award for Anhedonia for String Quartet during Warsaw Autumn Festival (2016)

• 1st honorable mention on Don Bosco Composers Competition for piece Sacerdos Semper Vivens for bartione voice and organ (2016)