Mateusz Borowiak

Pianist Mateusz Borowiak was the 2009 winner of the Nigel W Brown Music Prize.

Mateusz Borowiak studied piano and composition at the Junior Guildhall, and music at Girton College, Cambridge. During his time at the Junior Guildhall he was a recipient of The Drapers’ Company, The Leverhulme Trust and the Musicians Benevolent Fund awards. In 2005 he won the Junior Guildhall’s annual Lutine competition and was awarded the AGSMD Piano Performing Diploma with High Honours. In 2006 he was awarded the Principal’s Prize.

Mateusz has appeared at numerous venues in the UK including Barbican Hall, Birmingham Hall, Cadogan Hall, Purcell Room, St. James’s Piccadilly, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Snape Maltings, King’s College Chapel and West Road Concert Hall, at King’s Lynn, Lower Machen, Northern Aldborough and Stratford on Avon festivals, as well as throughout Austria, Czech Republic, Spain, Poland and Latvia. He has performed with such orchestras as the Royal Philharmonic, London Mozart Players, Cambridge University Musical Society Symphony Orchestra, European Union Chamber Orchestra, Silesian Chamber Orchestra, Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra and the London Octave.

Mateusz’s exceptional talent has attracted an array of awards including 1st prize for keyboard at the Royal Over-Seas League Music Competition (2006), 1st prize at the Christopher Duke Piano Recital Competition (2006), the Wax Chandlers (2002), the Eiluned Davies (2003), the Environ Composition Prizes (2006), the Girton College Music Scholarship for the student of outstanding talent in musical performance (2006 and 2008), the Alkan Prize (2007), the London Girton Association Award for outstanding musicianship (2007), the Rima Alamuddin Prize for composition (2008), Nigel W Brown Music Prize (2009) and the Sir Arthur Bliss Prize for Composition (2010). Mateusz graduated from Cambridge with double 1st class honours in 2009 and is currently studying piano with Andrzej Jasiński in Poland.

Forthcoming concerts

Saturday 21 August 2010, 6pm

Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music Concert Hall, Katowice
Chopin - Piano Concerto No.1 in E minor, Op.11
with Sinfonietta Cracovia String Quintet, directed by Robert Kabara

Friday 10 September 2010, 7.30pm

St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London
Chopin - Piano Concerto No.1 in E minor, Op.11
with London Octave, directed by Dietrich Bethge

Friday 19 November 2010, 7pm

Filharmonic Hall, Częstochowa
Liszt - Piano Concerto No.1 in E-flat major, S.124
with Częstochowa Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, cond. Jerzy Salwarowski

Tuesday 23 November 2010, 7pm

STUDENT ART FESTIVAL
Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music Concert Hall, Katowice
Chopin - Sonata for Violoncello and Piano in G minor, Op.65
with Wojciech Fudala (cello)

Thursday 25 November 2010, 7pm

STUDENT ART FESTIVAL
Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music Concert Hall, Katowice
J.S. Bach - Double Keyboard Concerto in C minor, BWV 1060
Karol Szymanowski Academy Baroque Orchestra, cond. Marek Toporowski
with Oliwia Grabowska (piano)

Tuesday 30 November 2010, 7pm

Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music Concert Hall, Katowice
J.S. Bach - Quadruple Keyboard Concerto in A minor, BWV 1065
and Double Keyboard Concerto in C minor, BWV 1060
with Camerata Speranza and Oliwia Grabowska, Łukasz Trepczyński, Piotr Banasik (piano)