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Marcin Koziak

He was born in 1989 in Krakow, into a family with musical traditions. At the age of ten, he won his first national piano competition, and one year later he made his debut with the Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra. He has performed in Europe, Asia and North America, including Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Austria, Great Britain, Russia, Israel, the USA, Japan, China, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Estonia, Romania, Croatia, Georgia, Canary Islands, Ukraine and Hungary.

The pianist took part in many significant festivals and concert series: La Roque d’Anthéron International Piano Festival, Chopin and His Europe, Rubinstein Piano Festival, Music in old Krakow Festival, Emanacje, La Folle Journée au Japon, La Folle Journée au Varsovie, ASEM Culture and Arts Festival, InternationalChopin Festival in Duszniki Zdrój, Kiev Summer Music Evenings.

His concerts were broadcasted by Japanese Radio Ottava, Radio France Musique, Polish Radio and Polish Television. He has released two albums with Fryderyk Chopin's music.

He has won numerous awards at international piano competitions, including 1st prize at the 2nd International Chopin Competition for Young Pianists (Budapest 2006), 2nd prize and three additional prizes at the 7th ‘Arthur Rubinstein in memoriam' International Competition for Young Pianists (Bydgoszcz 2007), 3rd prize at the 10th International Piano Competition (Hastings, Great Britain, 2014); he is also a semi-finalist and winner of three hors concours prizes in the 16th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw (2010), as well as a semi-finalist of the 14th International Arthur Rubinstein Piano Competition in Tel Aviv (2014) and the 16th International Gina Bachauer Piano Competition in Salt Lake City (2014). In 2021, he won the 3rd prize and four additional prizes at the Stanisław Moniuszko International Competition of Polish Music in Rzeszów, performing in a duet with Aleksandra Kuls, and in 2022 he won the second prize and the award for the best Polish band at the 21st Kiejstut Bacewicz International Chamber Music Competition in Lodz, performing with Marta Gidaszewska and Robert Łaguniak.

Since 2016 he has been working as a teacher at the Mieczysław Karłowicz State Music School Complex in Krakow. He conducted master classes and music workshops in Poland and China. He has also been cooperating with the National Children's Fund for several years.

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