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Maciej Pikulski piano<br />

Cracow-born Maciej Pikulski<br />

has appeared on stage in five<br />

continents as a soloist, chamber<br />

musician and vocal accompanist.<br />

He studied at the Paris<br />

Conservatoire with Dominique<br />

Merlet, before continuing his<br />

studies with Clive Britton. As a<br />

soloist he has performed in Russia,<br />

India, Sri Lanka, Italy, Germany,<br />

Spain, Switzerland, Poland and<br />

Belgium, as well as appearing at<br />

festivals throughout France. He has<br />

performed <strong>concert</strong>os with French,<br />

Belgian, English, Romanian,<br />

Italian and Polish orchestras.<br />

His recordings include<br />

Rachmaninov’s Second Concerto<br />

and solo pieces by Liszt,<br />

Rachmaninov and Chopin.<br />

In 2004 he was chosen by the<br />

French Chopin Society to perform<br />

in the reconstruction of Chopin’s<br />

last <strong>concert</strong> in Paris. In 2006<br />

he was invited to take part in a<br />

series of the complete Mozart<br />

keyboard sonatas at the San<br />

Sebastián Festival in Spain.<br />

As a chamber musician, Maciej<br />

Pikulski performs in a duo with<br />

the cellist Raphaël Chrétien, with<br />

whom he has recorded sonatas<br />

by Jean Huré, Guy Ropartz and<br />

Henri Duparc. Other prominent<br />

musicians with whom he has<br />

worked include Sonia Wieder-<br />

Atherton, Silvia Marcovici, Marc<br />

Coppey, Olivier Charlier, Laurent<br />

Korcia and Gérard Caussé.<br />

He now enjoys a flourishing career<br />

as a vocal accompanist too,<br />

working with singers such as José<br />

van Dam, Renée Fleming, Dame<br />

Felicity Lott, María Bayo, Patricia<br />

Petibon and Mireille Delunsch.<br />

Maciej Pikulski is also active<br />

as a teacher, and has given<br />

masterclasses in Shanghai, São<br />

Paulo, Mumbai, Paris, Amsterdam<br />

and Strasbourg. He is a professor<br />

at the San Sebastián Conservatory<br />

and teaches every year at the<br />

Nancy Summer Academy.<br />

maciej-pikulski.org

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