MIKOŁAJ BRZOSTOWICZ

Mikołaj Brzostowicz, born in 2014 in Warsaw, is a 4th-grade student at the Karol Szymanowski State Music School Complex No. 4 in Warsaw, studying piano under Dr. Joanna Świtlik.

He is a laureate of 12 Grand Prix awards, including:

• 9th International Witold Lutosławski Piano Competition in Zambrów

• 8th International Piano Competition in Augustów

• 9th National Competition “J.S. Bach Rediscovered”

• 2nd International Piano Competition for Children and Youth “Paderewski’s Piano”

• 16th International Piano Competition „Young Virtuoso” as part of the 20th Piano Forum „Bieszczady Without Borders”

• 4th Chopin Radio Alternative Competition

He has also received 24 first prizes, including:

• 6th International Subcarpathian Chopin Piano Competition

• 55th International Piano Competition in Ústí nad Labem (Czech Republic)

• 2nd International Viennese Spring Music Competition

• 22nd International J. Zarębski Music Competition

• 4th National Piano Competition for Young Talents named after A. Harasiewicz in Warsaw

• 13th National Piano Competition named after T. Szeligowski in Poznań

• 2nd and 4th International „Małopolska” Competitions

• 3rd and 4th Chopin Radio Alternative Competition – in the categories: Nocturnes, Mazurkas, and Etudes

He is a three-time top prize winner at the International F. Chopin Piano Competition for Children and Youth in Szafarnia (2022, 2023, 2024).

He received 7 special awards from the Fryderyk Chopin Institute, including concert invitations to Żelazowa Wola – where, at age 8, he was the youngest performer ever to take part in the “Musical Quarter Hours” series.

He also received 2 awards from the “Chopin in the Garden of Arts” Foundation, in the form of concerts at the Chopin Centre in Szafarnia as part of the “Holidays with Chopin” series.

In 2022, at the age of 8, he performed his first Chopin half-recital during the European Heritage Days at the Bieliński Palace in Otwock Wielki. That same year, he was the youngest performer at the 1st National Chopin Marathon held at the Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio in Warsaw.

In 2023, he performed at the Łódź Philharmonic Concert Hall, was the youngest participant of the 23rd “Young Artists in Krakow” Festival, performed twice at open-air concerts in Warsaw’s Ujazdowski Park as part of the “Paderewski at Ujazdów” series, gave a concert at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, and played a half-recital at the Chamber Hall of the National Philharmonic as part of the 10th International I. J. Paderewski Festival.

In May 2024, he gave a half-recital at the “Visegrad Wunderkinder” concert held in the B. Bartók Hall at the University of Miskolc in Hungary.