Pianist Mateusz Krzyżowski is the Ambassador of Culture for the City of Tychy. He is the First Prize winner at the 2022 Paderewski International Piano Competition in Bydgoszcz, Poland. At the same competition, Mateusz Krzyżowski was also recognized with several special prizes, including the Best Performance of a Piano Concerto Prize, as well as invitations to appear in solo recitals and as soloist with orchestras in the most prestigious concert halls in the world.

Mateusz Krzyżowski is also the First Prize winner at the 2021 Artur Rubinstein in Memoriam Young Pianists’ Competition, the Second Prize winner at the Karol Szymanowski Competition in Katowice, and the winner of the 2022 Talent Week scholarship award at the Paderewski Center in Kąśna Dolna, Poland. In addition to these honors, Mateusz Krzyżowski also represented Poland at the semi-final round of the 2021 International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. He is also a scholarship recipient of Ministry of Culture and National Heritage program “Young Poland,” and grant recipient from the Jerzy Semkow Foundation, the Marshal of the Silesian Voivodship, the National Children Fund, and the “Tychy-Dobre Miejsce” Foundation. He was also the recipient of the Magna cum Laude Medal for the best graduate of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in 2024.

Mateusz Krzyżowski’s musical education began in his hometown of Tychy at the Felix Rybicki Music School in the class of Bożena Furmańska. He continued his education at the Karol Szymanowski State General Music School in Katowice under the tutelage of Lubow Nawrocka and Sebastian Nawrocki. In 2023 he graduated from the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in the class of Joanna Lawrynowicz-Just.

Mateusz Krzyżowski’s interpretations endeavor to convey the composers’ intentions as accurately as possible. Filtering them through his own sensibilities leads to truly unique artistic experiences for the performer’s audiences. Krzyżowski’s probing musical readings can be heard on three CD recordings, Peine et Plaisir (published by the Opus Label), as well as Interwar Retrospections and The Most Beautiful Songs issued by Sarton Records.

Besides making recordings, Krzyżowski appeared as soloist with orchestras in Poland and toured France, United Arab Emirates, Germany, Japan, Lithuania, Ukraine, Slovakia, and Hungary, partnering with such noted conductors as Mirosław Jacek Błaszczyk, Kai Bumann, Jakub Chrenowicz, Jurek Dybał, Alexander Humala, Michał Klauza, Marek Moś, Wojciech Rodek, Marek Wroniszewski, and Jan Miłosz Zarzycki, among others.