119 delicacy of feeling as well as bravura without barnstorming if its eternal freshness is to be caught on record. Ronan O’Hora … uncannily invests this very beautiful recording with all these virtues, and more besides, for the performance sounds totally spontaneous even on second or third hearings … The cadenza is superb …” Ronan O’Hora is the Head of Keyboard Studies and Head of Advanced Performance Studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń (Poland) Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń is an internationally acclaimed Polish pianist of Bulgarian origin. A former student of Alexander Jenner at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna, and a participant in masterclasses with Suzanne Roche, Dieter Zechlin and György Sebők, she was also among the finalists and winners of some prestigious national and international competitions. She is a regular performer in Poland and abroad. Her repertoire includes compositions from the baroque to the present day, with particular emphasis on the works of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Debussy, Bartók and others. She is known for premiering Polish modern music. She has also performed as a chamber musician with renowned soloists and ensembles. Her concerts and recordings (for Accord Musidisc, CD Accord, Art Records and Fryderyk Chopin Institute) have been enthusiastically received by critics and audiences: ”It is that highest art of striking the listener at the heart that Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń has mastered to absolute perfection... ” (Marcin Gmys), ‘“I received the distinct impression that Popowa-Zydroń was less of a performing artist but had become or had been transformed into a perfect conduit or channel for the spirit and music of Schubert speaking directly through her.” (Michael Moran’s blog: 73rd International Chopin Piano Festival, Duszniki 2017). Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń is a professor at the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz, where for a number of years she was also Head of the Piano Department. She frequently gives masterclasses, conducts seminars and courses for piano teachers at home and abroad. She has frequently been on juries, judging national and international competitions. She is President of the I. J. Paderewski Music Society in Bydgoszcz, the organizer of the Paderewski International Piano Competition and the Paderewski Piano Academy, one-of-a-kind summer courses in piano playing with a symphonic orchestra. Her pupils and students have won awards in numerous competitions, are busy performing, and some of them are successful teachers, also abroad. Jury Members
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