Pianist Kacper Żaromski performs works by Karol Szymanowski and Frédéric Chopin, live from the Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago.
Kacper Żaromski was born in 1999. He is a native from Rymanow Zdrój in South Eastern Poland. He graduated with honors from the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Music School in Krosno, under the teaching of Mrs. Dorota Skibicka. He then proceeded to complete a five-year course of study with Professor Katarzyna Popowa Zydroń, after which he was awarded a Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree with distinction from the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music. He is currently pursuing a Performance Diploma at Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of Performing Arts, under Professor Edward Auer.
He is a prize winner of many Polish and international piano competitions: II Prize in International Chopin Piano Competition in Budapest (2016), VI Prize in 51st Polish National Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition (2022), I Prize in International Competition in Moscow (2016), I Prize in Leopold Bellan International Piano Competition in Paris (2018, 2020), I prize at I Internationalen Chopin-Klavierwettbewerb in Vienna (2018), I Prize in International Chopin Competitions in Antonin (2017) and Rzeszów (2017), and many others. In addition, his chamber music accolades include: III Prize in the 7th International Chamber Music Competition in Bydgoszcz (2020), II Prize in 1st International Online Instrumental Performance Competition (2021). In 2020, he received an Artistic Prize founded by Elżbieta and Krzysztof Penderecki at the XV International Piano Forum in Sanok.
