NEWS
October 2022
I have been called "The Jeweller of the Piano" in an article by Piotr Grella-Mozejko, in the magazine "Silesia"
December 2021
My Agghazy CD is available now on amazon.com
https://www.amazon.com/Karoly-Agghazy-Works-Slawomir-Dobrzanski/dp/B09HCTFM9R/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=karoly+agghazy+dobrzanski&qid=1638200590&s=music&sr=1-1
October 2021
I received the 2021 Outstanding Teacher Award from the Kansas Music Teachers Association!
Also, wonderful news from the United Kingdom below:
An enthusiastic review about my Karoly Agghazy CD recording was just published here:
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2021/Oct/Agghazy-piano-AP0511.htm
August 2021
My new CD with music by Karoly Agghazy (cover pictured above) has been officially released!
https://acteprealable.com/produkt/ap0511/
December 2020
My recent CD with music of Wiktor Labunski was included in a lost of most important cultural events in Kansas City in 2020:
https://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/music-news-reviews/classical-music-dance/article248021235.html?fbclid=IwAR31b9Z1S4DLUsYhKv9mbGG8MA74o-TVNNK6gAIdHNo5QFU5f8REkTpKsXo
My article about Labunski was included in the newest publication by Instytut Sztuki PAN in Poland:
http://www.ispan.pl/pl/wydawnictwa/nowosci/beata-boleslawskalewandowska-jolanta-guzypasiak-red.-27078
November 2020
My most recent CD received a very nice review:
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2020/Nov/Labunski-piano-AP0473.htm?fbclid=IwAR19XYHnNc-do8zjBuQFt1UOvb5lZBRLOA6co2OrCltd-yd-BTlDHLcGQl8
My two students (Dustin Hayes and Thomas Denk) received top prizes at KMTA State Auditions (senior category)
September 2020
September 10, 7pm - Listen to Kansas Public Radio from Lawrence, 99.5 fm
Piano Music for Four Hands - Slawomir Dobrzanski and Agustin Muriago
I am on the faculty of the InterHarmony International School of Music!
https://www.interharmonymusicschool.com/?gclid=Cj0KCQjw7sz6BRDYARIsAPHzrNLQShiiF-rwzzRjhUbJ6FAkJ8obAH9y9r_T3KClxfUPi5MO_RrPlxQaAi0aEALw_wcB
August 2020
An article about me in Kansas City Star!
https://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/music-news-reviews/classical-music-dance/article244705207.html
I am on the faculty of the 2020 InterHarmony International Music Festival!
https://www.interharmony.com/artist-teachers-online/
Spring 2020
My World Premiere Recording of complete piano music by Wiktor Labunski (1895-1974) is currently available on Amazon and Ebay.
To order a copy, you can also contact me privately using the contact form.
December 2018
Reviews of my recent CD's are online:
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2017/Jun/Katski_piano_v1_AP0388.htm
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2018/Dec/Katski_piano_v2_AP0424.htm
https://www.leducation-musicale.com/newsletters/breves1118.html#cd1
October 2018
My new CD, Piano Music by Chevalier Anton de Kontski (vol.2) was just released in Poland!
May 2018
Congratulations to students who graduated in May: Oscar Medrano, Rachel Baron and Alex Wakim. I am so proud of you!
January 2018
Congratulations to Zhihe and Zhixi Yan who won the West Central Division MTNA competition in the "Senior Piano Duet" Category. They will compete in the national finals!
December 2017
A wonderful review of my recording of Anton de Kontski in the French "Cahiers de sociologie économique et culturelle" no. 62
November
Congratulations to my piano student Matthew Meals, who won the KSU Concerto Competition!
Congratulations to my pre-college and college students: Oscar, Samuel, Kenji, Peter, Jerry and Ethan! They all won top prizes and honors at KMTA Auditions in Emporia (Nov. 4-5)
August
My students Peter and Jerry Yan both received the 3rd Prize at the 2017 Enkor International Piano Competition! Congratulations!
July
Professor Jonathan Bellman about my newest CD with music by Anton de Kontski:
"....your playing is really beautiful—your delicacy in teasing out the various little melodic lines may be, I suspect, the first time in history that such care has been taken with these pieces…at least since Kontski himself. I was surprised at the quality of much of the music; the salon pathos and sentiment is really elegantly realized, from a compositional standpoint. The suite of dances are attractive, but probably least interesting; there are really lots of good ideas in the other pieces. And the relationship to Chopin is clear...."
June
My newest CD is available on amazon!!!
https://www.amazon.com/Piano-Works-piano-Slawomir-Dobrzanski/dp/B07116WSVB/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1498322924&sr=8-2&keywords=kontski
May 2017
Congratulations to my graduating students: Matthew Honas (BA), Amanda Krieg (BM), Hill Yiqi Lee (MM). Bravo!
February 11, 2017 - My students Peter Zhihe Yan, Jerry Zhixi Yan, and Ethan Xin won first prizes at the Concerto Competition of the Manhattan Area Music Teachers Association. Congratulations!
January, 2017
"Indian Express", announcing my concert in Thiruvandanthapuram, Kerala, India:
http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/thiruvananthapuram/2017/jan/03/of-a-grand-piano-and-music-1555392.html
November 2016
The announcement of my masterclasses and lectures in Szczecin, Poland:
http://www.zsm2.szczecin.pl/#poczatek
November 1, 2016
My interpretations will be heard on the Dutch radio station Conzertsender:
http://www.concertzender.nl/programma/herkansing_voor_hummel_356948/
October
I was awarded by the Government of the Republic of Poland a Badge of Honor for Outstanding Contributions to Polish Culture.
September 2016
A review of my concert in Buenos Aires:
http://buenosairesherald.com/article/222026/polish-pianist-slawomir-dobrzanski-reveals-szymanowski%E2%80%99s-etudes
Announcement of the Chopiniana Festival in Buenos Aires:
https://www.mundoclasico.com/ed3/documentos/28702/Festival-Internacional-Piano-Chopiniana-2016-Buenos-Aires
June 2016
Our group of KSU students and community members visited Eisenach, Weimar, Bayreuth, Zwickau, Leipzig in Germany, and Warsaw and Zelazowa Wola in Poland.
May 2016
The announcement of my concert in the Ukraine:
http://inkyiv.com.ua/2016/05/shopen-shimanovska-i-currently-reading/
The announcement of my concert and lecture in Bialystok, Poland:
http://www.muzeum.bialystok.pl/s,koncert-i-wyklad-prof-slawomira-dobrzanskiego,391.html
Congratulations to my graduating student Jane Ye Hua (M.M.) Congratulations to our juniors on their junior recitals: Matthew Meals, Amanda Krieg and Samuel Fifield.
April 2016
Congratulations to KSU Honors Recital finalists Jane Hua and Matthew Meals!
February 2016
Congratulations to Kayla Lei and Robert Zhang, and Cathy Lei and Audrey Pickering, winners of the MAMTA Piano Duet Competition!
NEWS ARCHIVE
February 2015
Congratulations to my students Kayla Lei (grade 5-6 category, 1st prize) and Robert Zhang (grade 7-8, 2nd prize), prize winners at the Manhattan Area Music Teachers Association Concerto Competition!!! (Feb. 7, 2015). Bravo!
November 2014
Congratulations to my piano students: Alex Wakim, Ye Hua and Yiqi Li!
They have received awards and honors at the KMTA Collegiate Competition at Washburn University in Topeka, KS (Nov. 9, 2014)
Congratulations to my former student Barry Chi Zhang:
http://1350kman.com/manhattan-student-piano-champ/
Congratulations to my pre-college students: Cathy Lei, Kayla Lei and Robert Zhang, for their successes at the KMTA Auditions at Washburn University (Nov. 8). Bravo!
October 2014
News from France:
http://www.academie-polonaise.org/fr/index.php/actualite
September
September 10, 2014, 10AM - listen to live broadcast of my playing on KANU, KPR-Lawrence:
It is archived here:
http://www.kansaspublicradio.org/music/live-studio/classical-live/9322-slawomir-dobrzanski-piano
July
Recently published review from the November 2013 ASU conference on Polish-Jewish composers (incl. my lecture about Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern):
http://orelfoundation.org/index.php/journal/journalArticle/the_musical_worlds_of_polish_jews_19201960_identity_politics_and_culture/
June
The Complete Works for Piano by Maria Szymanowska CD album is a RECORDING OF THE MONTH, Muzyka21, Warsaw, Poland
News from in Kinmen Island (Taiwan):
http://www.k-state.edu/today/announcement.php?id=14547&category=publications_and_presentations&referredBy=email
http://www.kinmen.gov.tw/Layout/main_ch/News_NewsPrint.aspx?NewsID=131541&Language
http://www.kinmen.gov.tw/Layout/main_ch/News_NewsContent.aspx?NewsID=131517&frame=&DepartmentID=13&Language
http://www.kinmen.gov.tw/Layout/main_ch/News_NewsContent.aspx?NewsID=131248&frame=&DepartmentID=13&Language
January 2014
My recording of music by Maria Szymanowska was reviewed by the American Record Guide!
November 9, 2013
Congratulations to Robert Zhang, First Prize Winner in the KMTA Pre-College Honors Auditions (6 grade category, plan C).
Congratulations to Robert Zhang and Kayla Lei, First Prize Winners in the 4 Hand Category (5-6 grades) in the KMTA Pre-College Honors Auditions, in Lawrence, Kansas.
BRAVOS to Robert and Kayla!!
*
A review of my recording (Maria Szymanowska) appeared in the Issue 37:2 (Nov/Dec 2013) of Fanfare Magazine
*
October
Review of Maria Szymanowska CD in Polish daily "Gazeta Polska" Oct. 30, 2013
September
Review of "Complete Piano Works" by Maria Szymanowska from MusicWebInternational:
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2013/Sept13/Szymanowska_piano_AP0281.html
Interview in the periodical "Twoja Muza" (in Polish)
August Interview in the journal "Muzyka21" (in Polish)
August 28 Kansas Public Radio Program about Maria Szymanowska
The live recording of the program is available here:
http://www.kansaspublicradio.org/music/live-studio/classical-live/7213-slawomir-dobrzanski-piano
May - The album "Maria Szymanowska: Complete Piano Works" (Acte Préalable) has been released! Please contact me if you would like to purchase the 3CD album.
© 2013-21. Sławomir Dobrzański. All Rights Reserved.
October 2022
I have been called "The Jeweller of the Piano" in an article by Piotr Grella-Mozejko, in the magazine "Silesia"
December 2021
My Agghazy CD is available now on amazon.com
https://www.amazon.com/Karoly-Agghazy-Works-Slawomir-Dobrzanski/dp/B09HCTFM9R/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=karoly+agghazy+dobrzanski&qid=1638200590&s=music&sr=1-1
October 2021
I received the 2021 Outstanding Teacher Award from the Kansas Music Teachers Association!
Also, wonderful news from the United Kingdom below:
An enthusiastic review about my Karoly Agghazy CD recording was just published here:
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2021/Oct/Agghazy-piano-AP0511.htm
August 2021
My new CD with music by Karoly Agghazy (cover pictured above) has been officially released!
https://acteprealable.com/produkt/ap0511/
December 2020
My recent CD with music of Wiktor Labunski was included in a lost of most important cultural events in Kansas City in 2020:
https://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/music-news-reviews/classical-music-dance/article248021235.html?fbclid=IwAR31b9Z1S4DLUsYhKv9mbGG8MA74o-TVNNK6gAIdHNo5QFU5f8REkTpKsXo
My article about Labunski was included in the newest publication by Instytut Sztuki PAN in Poland:
http://www.ispan.pl/pl/wydawnictwa/nowosci/beata-boleslawskalewandowska-jolanta-guzypasiak-red.-27078
November 2020
My most recent CD received a very nice review:
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2020/Nov/Labunski-piano-AP0473.htm?fbclid=IwAR19XYHnNc-do8zjBuQFt1UOvb5lZBRLOA6co2OrCltd-yd-BTlDHLcGQl8
My two students (Dustin Hayes and Thomas Denk) received top prizes at KMTA State Auditions (senior category)
September 2020
September 10, 7pm - Listen to Kansas Public Radio from Lawrence, 99.5 fm
Piano Music for Four Hands - Slawomir Dobrzanski and Agustin Muriago
I am on the faculty of the InterHarmony International School of Music!
https://www.interharmonymusicschool.com/?gclid=Cj0KCQjw7sz6BRDYARIsAPHzrNLQShiiF-rwzzRjhUbJ6FAkJ8obAH9y9r_T3KClxfUPi5MO_RrPlxQaAi0aEALw_wcB
August 2020
An article about me in Kansas City Star!
https://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/music-news-reviews/classical-music-dance/article244705207.html
I am on the faculty of the 2020 InterHarmony International Music Festival!
https://www.interharmony.com/artist-teachers-online/
Spring 2020
My World Premiere Recording of complete piano music by Wiktor Labunski (1895-1974) is currently available on Amazon and Ebay.
To order a copy, you can also contact me privately using the contact form.
December 2018
Reviews of my recent CD's are online:
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2017/Jun/Katski_piano_v1_AP0388.htm
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2018/Dec/Katski_piano_v2_AP0424.htm
https://www.leducation-musicale.com/newsletters/breves1118.html#cd1
October 2018
My new CD, Piano Music by Chevalier Anton de Kontski (vol.2) was just released in Poland!
May 2018
Congratulations to students who graduated in May: Oscar Medrano, Rachel Baron and Alex Wakim. I am so proud of you!
January 2018
Congratulations to Zhihe and Zhixi Yan who won the West Central Division MTNA competition in the "Senior Piano Duet" Category. They will compete in the national finals!
December 2017
A wonderful review of my recording of Anton de Kontski in the French "Cahiers de sociologie économique et culturelle" no. 62
November
Congratulations to my piano student Matthew Meals, who won the KSU Concerto Competition!
Congratulations to my pre-college and college students: Oscar, Samuel, Kenji, Peter, Jerry and Ethan! They all won top prizes and honors at KMTA Auditions in Emporia (Nov. 4-5)
August
My students Peter and Jerry Yan both received the 3rd Prize at the 2017 Enkor International Piano Competition! Congratulations!
July
Professor Jonathan Bellman about my newest CD with music by Anton de Kontski:
"....your playing is really beautiful—your delicacy in teasing out the various little melodic lines may be, I suspect, the first time in history that such care has been taken with these pieces…at least since Kontski himself. I was surprised at the quality of much of the music; the salon pathos and sentiment is really elegantly realized, from a compositional standpoint. The suite of dances are attractive, but probably least interesting; there are really lots of good ideas in the other pieces. And the relationship to Chopin is clear...."
June
My newest CD is available on amazon!!!
https://www.amazon.com/Piano-Works-piano-Slawomir-Dobrzanski/dp/B07116WSVB/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1498322924&sr=8-2&keywords=kontski
May 2017
Congratulations to my graduating students: Matthew Honas (BA), Amanda Krieg (BM), Hill Yiqi Lee (MM). Bravo!
February 11, 2017 - My students Peter Zhihe Yan, Jerry Zhixi Yan, and Ethan Xin won first prizes at the Concerto Competition of the Manhattan Area Music Teachers Association. Congratulations!
January, 2017
"Indian Express", announcing my concert in Thiruvandanthapuram, Kerala, India:
http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/thiruvananthapuram/2017/jan/03/of-a-grand-piano-and-music-1555392.html
November 2016
The announcement of my masterclasses and lectures in Szczecin, Poland:
http://www.zsm2.szczecin.pl/#poczatek
November 1, 2016
My interpretations will be heard on the Dutch radio station Conzertsender:
http://www.concertzender.nl/programma/herkansing_voor_hummel_356948/
October
I was awarded by the Government of the Republic of Poland a Badge of Honor for Outstanding Contributions to Polish Culture.
September 2016
A review of my concert in Buenos Aires:
http://buenosairesherald.com/article/222026/polish-pianist-slawomir-dobrzanski-reveals-szymanowski%E2%80%99s-etudes
Announcement of the Chopiniana Festival in Buenos Aires:
https://www.mundoclasico.com/ed3/documentos/28702/Festival-Internacional-Piano-Chopiniana-2016-Buenos-Aires
June 2016
Our group of KSU students and community members visited Eisenach, Weimar, Bayreuth, Zwickau, Leipzig in Germany, and Warsaw and Zelazowa Wola in Poland.
May 2016
The announcement of my concert in the Ukraine:
http://inkyiv.com.ua/2016/05/shopen-shimanovska-i-currently-reading/
The announcement of my concert and lecture in Bialystok, Poland:
http://www.muzeum.bialystok.pl/s,koncert-i-wyklad-prof-slawomira-dobrzanskiego,391.html
Congratulations to my graduating student Jane Ye Hua (M.M.) Congratulations to our juniors on their junior recitals: Matthew Meals, Amanda Krieg and Samuel Fifield.
April 2016
Congratulations to KSU Honors Recital finalists Jane Hua and Matthew Meals!
February 2016
Congratulations to Kayla Lei and Robert Zhang, and Cathy Lei and Audrey Pickering, winners of the MAMTA Piano Duet Competition!
NEWS ARCHIVE
February 2015
Congratulations to my students Kayla Lei (grade 5-6 category, 1st prize) and Robert Zhang (grade 7-8, 2nd prize), prize winners at the Manhattan Area Music Teachers Association Concerto Competition!!! (Feb. 7, 2015). Bravo!
November 2014
Congratulations to my piano students: Alex Wakim, Ye Hua and Yiqi Li!
They have received awards and honors at the KMTA Collegiate Competition at Washburn University in Topeka, KS (Nov. 9, 2014)
Congratulations to my former student Barry Chi Zhang:
http://1350kman.com/manhattan-student-piano-champ/
Congratulations to my pre-college students: Cathy Lei, Kayla Lei and Robert Zhang, for their successes at the KMTA Auditions at Washburn University (Nov. 8). Bravo!
October 2014
News from France:
http://www.academie-polonaise.org/fr/index.php/actualite
September
September 10, 2014, 10AM - listen to live broadcast of my playing on KANU, KPR-Lawrence:
It is archived here:
http://www.kansaspublicradio.org/music/live-studio/classical-live/9322-slawomir-dobrzanski-piano
July
Recently published review from the November 2013 ASU conference on Polish-Jewish composers (incl. my lecture about Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern):
http://orelfoundation.org/index.php/journal/journalArticle/the_musical_worlds_of_polish_jews_19201960_identity_politics_and_culture/
June
The Complete Works for Piano by Maria Szymanowska CD album is a RECORDING OF THE MONTH, Muzyka21, Warsaw, Poland
News from in Kinmen Island (Taiwan):
http://www.k-state.edu/today/announcement.php?id=14547&category=publications_and_presentations&referredBy=email
http://www.kinmen.gov.tw/Layout/main_ch/News_NewsPrint.aspx?NewsID=131541&Language
http://www.kinmen.gov.tw/Layout/main_ch/News_NewsContent.aspx?NewsID=131517&frame=&DepartmentID=13&Language
http://www.kinmen.gov.tw/Layout/main_ch/News_NewsContent.aspx?NewsID=131248&frame=&DepartmentID=13&Language
January 2014
My recording of music by Maria Szymanowska was reviewed by the American Record Guide!
November 9, 2013
Congratulations to Robert Zhang, First Prize Winner in the KMTA Pre-College Honors Auditions (6 grade category, plan C).
Congratulations to Robert Zhang and Kayla Lei, First Prize Winners in the 4 Hand Category (5-6 grades) in the KMTA Pre-College Honors Auditions, in Lawrence, Kansas.
BRAVOS to Robert and Kayla!!
*
A review of my recording (Maria Szymanowska) appeared in the Issue 37:2 (Nov/Dec 2013) of Fanfare Magazine
*
October
Review of Maria Szymanowska CD in Polish daily "Gazeta Polska" Oct. 30, 2013
September
Review of "Complete Piano Works" by Maria Szymanowska from MusicWebInternational:
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2013/Sept13/Szymanowska_piano_AP0281.html
Interview in the periodical "Twoja Muza" (in Polish)
August Interview in the journal "Muzyka21" (in Polish)
August 28 Kansas Public Radio Program about Maria Szymanowska
The live recording of the program is available here:
http://www.kansaspublicradio.org/music/live-studio/classical-live/7213-slawomir-dobrzanski-piano
May - The album "Maria Szymanowska: Complete Piano Works" (Acte Préalable) has been released! Please contact me if you would like to purchase the 3CD album.
© 2013-21. Sławomir Dobrzański. All Rights Reserved.
