Pianist, chamber musician, teacher. Critics count him among the best Polish performers of his generation. Winner of a Fryderyk phonographic award and an Orfeusz award for “outstanding performances of Polish music”. He has been nominated for a Polityka Passport award (2017) for “the sensitivity and intelligence with which he approaches repertoire that tends to be absent from our stages”, and his interests include the latest music as well as unknown music of Polish Romanticism. The year 2017 saw the release of his four-disc album with the complete piano works of Juliusz Zarębski. He has many world premiere performances of contemporary music to his credit, and collaborates with the Apollon Musagete Quartet, the Royal String Quartet, Piotr Pławner, Agata Zubel and the Silesian Quartet. The person and oeuvre of Karol Szymanowski is the focus of his attention; he became vice-president of the Szymanowski Society in Zakopane in 2018. His many albums released by DUX, CD Accord, Haenssler, CPO and Naxos have won various awards in Poland and abroad. He has also recorded for Polish Radio, the Belgian radio Musiq3, Deutschlandradio and HR2. For PWM Edition, he recorded Szpilman’s Concertino with the AUKSO orchestra as part of PWM’s 100 for 100 project. Piotr Sałajczyk teaches piano at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, from which he graduated after studying piano with Prof. Józef Stompel. He continued his studies at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Prof. Pavel Gililov.