| Sonntag 30 November 2025 | 16:30 |
| Mateusz Borowiak | Klavier |
Mateusz Borowiak was born in London to a family of musicians, spent his formative years studying piano and composition at the Junior Guildhall and Music at the University of Cambridge. Only in his early twenties did he begin studying piano full-time with Professor Andrzej Jasinski at the Academy of Music in Katowice, Poland. Despite this multi-faceted education he has been very active on the performing scene, playing recitals and concertos as soloist at top venues such as Barbican Hall, Palais des Beaux Arts (Brussels), Salle Cortot (Paris), Gasteig (Munich), Wigmore Hall, Philharmonic Hall (St. Petersburg), L'Auditori (Barcelona), Auditorio Nacional de Musica (Madrid), Liszt Hall (Budapest), Paul Klee Centre (Bern), Sejong Arts Center (Seoul), Merkin Hall (New York), National Centre for the Performing Arts (Beijing) and Shanghai Symphony Hall. Also at festivals including the St. Petersburg International Winter Festival Arts Square, Cambridge 800th Festival, Klassiek Leeft Meesterlijk, Rubinstein Piano Festival, International Chopin Festival in Duszniki, Polish Piano Festivals in Stupsk and the Royal Cracow Piano Festival, as well as in Austria, Czechnia, Latvia, Slovakia, Turkey & Ukraine.
Orchestras and ensembles he has performed with include the Royal Philharmonic, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, London Mozart Players, Casco Phil, National Orchestra of Belgium, Royal Finnish Philharmonic, Bilbao Symphony Orchestra and the Silesian String Quartet.
His concerts were broadcast on television and radio throughout Europe, Oceania and North America, on stations including BBC Radio 3,TV5, RAI, RTBF and France Musique. His performances were featured in the ground-breaking Sky Arts documentary "The Lost Music of Auschwitz" which has had global reach. CD releases include Louis Pelosi's 13 Preludes and Fugues (KASP Records New York), "Mateusz Borowiak Live at the Queen Elizabeth Competition 2013" (BNP PARIBAS) and 15 Keyboard Sonatas by Antonio Soler (NAXOS) released in 2014 to wide acclaim.
He has given masterclasses and lectures at Shanghai Music Academy, Suzhou University, Nanning Arts Institute, Girton College Cambridge, Junior Guildhall, Piano Lab Belgium, Academies of Music in Lodz, Poznan and Katowice (Poland) and is currently assistant professor at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice.
This concert is supported by the Polish Cultural Institute
Our piano, a fine 2015 Hamburg Steinway Model B Grand, is maintained by Steinways and tuned by them immediately before each performance.
After the concert we offer a tradition English afternoon buffet tea of freshly-made sandwiches, savouries, cakes and chocolate biscuits, accompanied by a choice of a glass of wine or unlimited tea, coffee or juice. Tea tickets are sold on the door for cash only:£10(standard), £5 (Students & schoolchildren). We can cater for up to 70.
