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Friends of Chopin Australia - Rafal Luszczewski in Recital Thurs, 01 May 2025

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If you are fortunate enough to be living in Australia, love the music of Fryderyk Chopin and wish to hear an outstandingly brilliant pianist and musician, make strenuous efforts to attend this remarkable recital   https://www.friendsofchopin.org.au/rafael-luszczewski-in-recital I have heard  Rafal Luszczewski   give many exceptional and well-received recitals in Warsaw, surely the informed critical home of many of today's greatest Chopin interpretations. The prodigious International Chopin Piano Competition will be launched once again later this year in Warsaw Luszczewski  is also to be commended on his many musical activities beyond recitals in a characteristically Polish cosmopolitan musical career embracing teaching, conducting superb Masterclasses and the extraordinary initiative of setting up Chopin piano competitions in South American countries.  A unique individual and charming man who plays unencumbered by the inflated vanity of far too ma...

The International Paderewski Piano Competitions, Bydgoszcz, Poland - Links to my past detailed reviews 2013 - 2022

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  Ignacy Jan Paderewski (6 November 1860 – 29 June 1941) starring in the innocent and lyrical film Moonlight Sonata (1936) The 9th International Paderewski Piano Competition, Bydgoszcz, Poland 3-17 November 2013 http://www.michael-moran.com/2013/10/ix-international-paderewski-piano.html The 10th International Paderewski Piano Competition, Bydgoszcz, Poland  6-20 November 2016 https://michael-moran.org/blog/ The 11th International Paderewski Piano Competition Bydgoszcz, Poland 10-24 November 2019 https://michael-moran.org/2019/10/23/the-11th-international-paderewski-piano-competition-10-24-xi-2019/ The 12th International Paderewski Piano Competition Bydgoszcz, Poland   November 6th – 20th, 2022 http://www.michael-moran.com/2022/11/the-12th-international-paderewski-piano.html