A pianist, chamber musician, and teacher. Winner of the Fryderyk Award and the Orpheus Award for his ‘outstanding interpretations of Polish music’, he has been nominated for the ‘Polityka’ Passport Award for ‘the sensitivity and intelligence with which he approaches repertoire that is heard with decreasing frequency in concert halls’. Piotr Sałajczyk leads an active concert life, while his extensive discography includes albums (recorded for the labels DUX, CD Accord, Anaklasis, Hänssler, CPO, Chandos, and Naxos) that have won numerous awards in Poland and abroad. In 2017, a four-disc album featuring Juliusz Zarębski’s complete piano works was released. A year later, the pianist set out to record Władysław Żeleński’s entire piano oeuvre. Together with the Silesian String Quartet, he recorded Mieczysław Weinberg’s Piano Quintet (Fryderyk 2018). In 2022, Piotr Sałajczyk took over as Chairperson of the Board of the K. Szymanowski Music Society; he is also Artistic Director of the K. Szymanowski International Music Festival in Zakopane. He runs a piano class at the K. Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. Since 2024, he has been a Bösendorfer artist.
fot. Karolina Sałajczyk