Piano Lessons
I studied piano alongside organ and clavichord in Poland at the Żeleński State Secondary Music School in Kraków and the Academy of Music in Kraków. I have participated in several piano masterclasses and teaching workshops in both Poland and Italy.
My main teacher and mentor was Marian Mika, a renowned professor in Italy and an expert in Chopin’s style. He passed on the legacy of his own teachers, Ludwik Stefański and Henryk Sztompka. Sztompka’s pedagogical lineage can be traced directly to both Frederic Chopin and Franz Liszt: he studied with Raoul Koczalski, a pupil of Karol Mikuli—Chopin’s favored student—and also with Ignacy Jan Paderewski, who was a student of Theodor Leschetizky. Leschetizky, in turn, studied with Franz Liszt, who had been a pupil of Carl Czerny, a student of Beethoven.
Through my organ teachers, I have also a direct teacher-student lineage spanning ten generations to J.S. Bach. Both of my teachers studied under Bronisław Rutkowski, who was a pupil of Louis Vierne. This lineage continues through Charles-Marie Widor, Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens, Adolf Friedrich Hesse, Christian Heinrich Rinck, Johann Christian Kittel, and ultimately to J.S. Bach himself.
Since 2014, I have taught piano at various music schools in Kraków and at my music studio in Aberdeen.
I offer piano lessons at advanced level at Sonata Piano School in Aberdeen and online via Skype (for students from different cities and abroad).
I prepare students for the ABRSM and Trinity College higher grades exams, diplomas and recitals. At St James church in Aberdeen I also offer lessons on a historic cabinet piano by James Ball from 1810 tuned to Young II temperament which is perfectly suitable for Baroque, Classical and early Romantic repertoire.
