Pianist born in 1985 in Wałbrzych. In 2009 he graduated with distinction from the class of Prof. Alicja Kledzik at the I.J. Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań. He also studied at the Universität der Künste in Berlin and at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne. In 2009 he joined the faculty of his alma mater. Between 2015 and 2017 he undertook an artistic residency under the supervision of Prof. Krzysztof Jabłoński at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. Since 2015, when he was awarded a doctoral degree in musical arts, he has held the post of Assistant Professor in the Piano Department of the Academy of Music in Poznań.
Already at the age of nineteen he was winning top prizes at international piano competitions: First Prize at the International Piano Competition in Rome (2004) and two Special Prizes at the “Artur Rubinstein in memoriam” International Piano Competition in Bydgoszcz (2004). The years that followed brought him First Prize at the International Piano Competitions in Val Tidone (2005) and Racconigi (2006) in Italy, as well as a Special Prize at the N. Rubinstein International Chamber Music Competition in Moscow (2007). The crowning achievements of Przemysław Witek’s competition career were the prizes won in 2008: First Prize and the Best Virtuoso Award at the Adilia Alieva Competition in Gaillard, France, and First Prize and the Best Polish Pianist Award at the “Halina Czerny-Stefańska in memoriam” International Piano Competition in Poznań. These distinctions enabled him to record his debut CD and to begin a concert career in Poland and abroad.
Przemysław Witek has performed with the Amadeus Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra, the Beethoven Academy Orchestra, as well as with the Philharmonic Orchestras of Lower Silesia, Krakow, Koszalin, Lublin, the Sudety region, Szczecin and the Świętokrzyskie region, and with the Płock Symphony Orchestra. He has collaborated with conductors such as Agnieszka Duczmal, Marek Pijarowski, Paweł Przytocki, Jacek Rogala, Ruben Silva, Jakub Chrenowicz, Przemysław Fiugajski, Paweł Kapuła, Marko Ivanovič, Grigorij Krasko and Mitsuyoshi Oikawa. He has inaugurated the concert seasons of the Mozart Virtuoso Orchestra in Tokyo (2017), the Montenegrin National Philharmonic (2013) and the Sudety Philharmonic (2010), and performed in the Finals of the Polish Piano Festival in Słupsk (2009). He has toured China several times. As a chamber musician he has worked with Anna Maria Staśkiewicz, Katarzyna Budnik, Zofia Kulisiewicz, Janusz Wawrowski, Marcin Markowicz, Bartosz Woroch, Benedict Klöckner and Jiří Kabát. He has performed in major Polish cities and abroad: in the United States, Japan, China, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, Spain, France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia.
He made archival recordings of Karol Szymanowski’s works for Vatican Radio in 2004 and 2012. In March 2011 his debut album “Décadence”, featuring works by Szymanowski and Rachmaninoff, was released by Polish Radio and Ponte Art Production. In 2014 he gave the world premiere and made the recording (Polish Radio Lublin) of Andrzej Nikodemowicz’s Piano Sonata No. 3 (1958), as well as the Polish premiere and recording of the piano works of Mieczysław Weinberg — released in 2017 by the Academy of Music in Poznań. In 2016 he premiered Mikołaj Hertel’s Concerto alla polacca, commissioned for the 50th Jubilee Polish Piano Festival in Słupsk.