Artistic biography

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Education

Adam Kałduński began studying piano at the age of seven with Mariusz Trzebniak at the Feliks Nowowiejski School of Music in Gdańsk. Since 2015, he continued his education in the class of Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń and Jerzy Sulikowski at the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz, Poland (graduated Master Degree - 2020, Artist Diploma - 2022).

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Achievements

Adam Kałduński is a first-prize winner of the 2nd International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition for Young Pianists in Beijing, China (2019). He won the first prize and five special prizes, i.a. Critics Prize and Audience Prize at the 3rd International Piano Competition 'Amadeus' in Lazise, Italy (2023). Adam received the second prize at the National Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw (2020). Other competition achievements include: 1st prize at the 16th National Piano Festival 'Chopin Interpretations of the Young' in Konin-Żychlin, Poland (2019); 1st prize and three special prizes at the 22nd International Chopin Piano Competition for Children and Youth in Szafarnia, Poland (2014), as well as many others. Adam participated in the second stage of the 18th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw (2021). He was also a semi-finalist of the International Telekom Beethoven Competition Bonn (2023).

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Concerts

Adam Kałduński performs regularly in Poland and abroad. He has been frequently invited by the National Chopin Institute to give Chopin recitals. Adam has already performed in several of the most prestigious venues in Poland as, for example, Warsaw Philharmonic, NOSPR in Katowice, Pomeranian Philharmonic in Bydgoszcz or at the International Chopin Festival in Duszniki-Zdrój.

Experience

He has attended piano masterclasses with such luminaries as Dang Thai Son, Arie Vardi, Nikolai Demidenko, Edward Auer, Kevin Kenner, Tamàs Ungar, Dina Yoffe, Pavel Gililov, Piotr Paleczny, Giuliano Mazzocante, Dmitri Alexeev, Jan Jiracek von Arnim, Akiko Ebi, Stanislav Ioudenitch, among many others.