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Piotr Reichert
Department: Department of Instrumental Studies
Chair: Chair of Piano and String Chamber Music
Speciality: Viola
Violist, chamber musician, member of the Camerata Quartet, laureate of international chamber music competitions. Since 1992, he is a teacher in Fryderyk Chopin University of Music - currently a professor. His students have repeatedly won awards at international music competitions, incl. ARD in Munich, competitions in Geneva, in Poertschach, in Hradec and many others. He is the vice-president of the Polish Chamber Music Society.
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Piotr Reichert
viola
He was born in 1957 in Lublin. There he graduated from music high school, after which, as a scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture and Art, he studied at the Music Academy in Sofia. From 1981 to 1988 he was a musician with the Polish Chamber Orchestra led by maestro Jerzy Maksymiuk and the Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra. From 1988 to the present, he has co-founded the Camerata Quartet. With this ensemble from 1980 to 1991, he won a number of awards, such as Karl Klingler Preis (Munich) - Third Prize, Tokyo - Third Prize, Paris (UFAM) - First Prize. He has recorded 30 albums of chamber music for national and international labels, such as: DUX, Koch International, Ricercar, Thorofon. The Camerata Quartet's albums have also been nominated for the FRYDERYK award several times, and the ensemble won it in 1999.
Since the early 1990s, he has performed with the quartet in many renowned concert halls of Poland and the world, including: Alte Oper in Frankfurt, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Hall, Sibelius Academy Great Hall, Royal Conservatory in Brussels, Sofia Philharmonic, Bern Conservatory, Centro Cultural in Mexico City, Hermitage Theatre Hall in St. Petersburg, Forbidden City Hall in Beijing, National Gallery in London. He has also participated in festivals such as the International Festival in Łańcut, Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival, Festival de Wallonie, Van Flandern Festival, Warsaw Autumn, Festival de Sintra, and Bodensee Festival.
Piotr Reichert taught courses in viola and chamber music at the International Music Courses in Łańcut, the Music Academy in Żagań, the Spring Music Academy in Przemyśl, the Courses in Janowiec, Puck and Gorlice.
As part of his teaching and research activities, he has served as a promoter in doctoral dissertations three times, and has been a reviewer in doctoral, postdoctoral and professorship proceedings on several occasions. He has also been a professor at the F. Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz since 2012.
For his activities, he has received from the Minister of Culture the decoration "Meritorious activist of culture (2004) and the bronze medal "Meritorious for culture - Gloria Artis"(2009) and twice the award of the Rector of the UMFC.
His alumni have repeatedly won top prizes at national and international competitions, among them: ARD in Munich - Ryszard Groblewski - 2nd prize, Katarzyna Budnik - 3rd prize, Music Competition in Geneva - R. Groblewski - 1st prize, as well as multiple first prizes in the J. Brahms Competitions in Poertschach, in the competition in Bled, in Hradec, in Sonderhausen, in Poznań (named after J. Rakowski) and in Dąbrowa Górnicza (named after M. Spisak).
He holds awards for his recordings: among others, Diapason d'Or (Diapason magazine No. 410/1994, "Sforzando" (Crescendo monthly No. 14/1995), "Pizzicato Supersonic Award (Pizzicato 2009), Record of the Year 1995 of "Studio" monthly FRYDERYK Award (1999).
fot. Mateusz Żaboklicki