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Professor Grzegorz Kurzyński (Poland) is a graduate of the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław (Poland), under the tutelage of Professor Włodzimierz Obidowicz. He has also earned degrees from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels where he studied under Professor Jean Claude Vanden-Eynden, and the prestigious Juilliard School of Music in New York, where he studied under Professor Joseph Kalichstein and Professor Abbey Simon. He was awarded fellowships by Belgium’s Ministry of Culture as well as The Barbara Piasecka-Johnson Foundation in the United States, and also received a scholarship from the outstanding American pianist Malcolm Frager. He has done concert tours in Poland, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Russia, the Ukraine, Luxemburg, the United States, the Czech Republic, Australia, Latvia, Korea, Austria and Italy. He has been recorded many times on radio, television and for CDs. He has been and continues to be a juror for many national and international piano competitions. Grzegorz Kurzyński has held masterclasses in Poland, Netherlands, Latvia, Romania, Germany, Austria, Israel, Serbia, Bulgaria, Island, United Kingdom, Estonia, Ireland, Georgia. He has been teaching piano since 1972 at the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław and the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań (Poland, 1996–2002). Grzegorz Kurzyński Kurzyński was the Head of the Piano Chair in 2002–2020 and Rector of the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław in 2002–2008 and in 2016–2020.