Antoni Kawecki is a Polish pianist, born on 31 January 2001 in Miechów, Poland. He graduated from the Zenon Brzewski Secondary Music School in Warsaw in the piano class of Irina Rumiancewa-Dabrowski and went on to study with Wojciech Świtała and Zbigniew Raubo at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. He is currently studying for a Master in Music Performance (piano) at the Zurich University of the Arts, with a minor in historical performance practice.
A scholarship holder of the Polish National Children’s Fund from 2013 to 2020, he has also received scholarships from the Polish Minister of Culture, the Sapere Auso Foundation and the BieleckiArt Foundation. In 2023 he was selected for the “Young Talents” programme of the Fryderyk Chopin National Institute.
He is a prize-winner of numerous piano competitions and has taken part in masterclasses with Dina Yoffe, Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń, Andrzej Jasiński and Charles Richard-Hamelin.
He has performed at venues including the Świętokrzyska and Silesian Philharmonics, the Royal Castle in Warsaw and Łańcut Castle, the Vivaldi Hall in Vienna, and concert halls in Katowice and Kraków.
Photo: Przemysław Wachowiak