Zbigniew Raubo | 28.03.2025

Laureate of the F. Busoni Competition in Bolzano (1991), the F. Liszt Competition in Utrecht (1992) - so far the only Polish laureate of this prestigious competition - and the K. Szymanowski Competition in Łódź (1987). He graduated with honours from the Katowice Academy of Music in the class of Professor Andrzej Jasiński, from whom he later became assistant. He currently works as a professor at his alma mater. In June 2013, he was awarded the title of Professor of Musical Arts by the President of the Republic of Poland. He holds the title of Ambassador of the City of Kalisz.

In 2023 he was awarded the Golden Cross of Merit. He has given concerts in all philharmonics in the country. He has performed with the most eminent Polish conductors such as Jerzy Maksymiuk, Antoni Wit, Agnieszka Duczmal, Jerzy Salwarowski, Mirosław J. Błaszczyk, Marek Pijarowski, Tomasz Bugaj, Jerzy Swoboda, Krzysztof Missona, Łukasz Borowicz, Marek Moś, Czesław Grabowski, Renard Czajkowski.

His repertoire includes more than 30 works for piano with orchestra . His artistic achievements include a recital performance at the Chopin Festival in Vancouver, the ‘Poolse Meesters’ Festival in Belgium, as well as piano workshops and a concert as part of the Campos do Jordao Festival in Brazil, and a recital and master class at the International Chopin Festival in Duszniki-Zdrój. He has made a number of recordings for national and international record companies including the Japanese subsidiaries of Deutsche Gramophon and RCA, International Music Corporation, DUX and Żuk Records.

He also enjoys chamber music, and has performed with the Kwartet Śląski, Wilanów and Camerata, as well as with Bartłomiej Nizioł, Urszula Kryger, Elżbieta Mrożek-Loska and Piotr Janosik.

He is actively involved in teaching; in addition to her full-time work at the Academy of Music in Katowice, she meets with young pianists at numerous courses and also consults lower-stage music education. He also teaches intensively at piano master classes. His academic activities include, among others: acting as D. thesis supervisor and, on several occasions, as a reviewer in doctoral theses and in proceedings for the conferment of the title of professor.

He has repeatedly taken part in the jury of national and international competitions, including the National F. Chopin Competition in Warsaw, Chopin Competition in Asia in Japan or the Competition for Scholarships of the Yamaha Foundation.

He was also a juror of the 11th International I. J. Paderewski Piano Competition in Bydgoszcz and the 5th International Baltic Piano Competition in Gdańsk.

He is also chairman of the jury of the ‘Alternatywa Konkursowa’ organized by the Polish Radio Chopin.

Among his pupils there are laureates of music competitions - the Liszt Competition in Wrocław, the Liszt Competition in Parma, the International F. Chopin Competition for Children and Young People in Szafarnia, the National Chopin Competition in Warsaw, the Polish Piano Festival in Słupsk, the ‘Arthur Rubinstein in memoriam’ Competition in Bydgoszcz and others. In recent years, his student and current assistant, Tymoteusz Bies, was the winner of the first edition of the International K. Szymanowski Competition in Katowice.