The Warsaw Piano Workshop cooperates with the international master piano course, The "Gold Country Piano Institute" in Nevada City, California, U.S.A.  To see our  English version of The Gold Country Piano Institute web site click button "INSTITUTE" 

To see the official web site of the Gold Country Piano Institute click button "GCPI" on the right

To review the web pages of another piano course closely connected to Warsaw Piano Workshop - the "Beskidy Piano Workshop" - held twice a year (September and February) in Poland - click the "BPW" button on the right (BWP web pages are available in Polish only but have lots of pictures)

the 12th Warsaw Piano Workshop will take place

August 10-20, 2011

little history of the Warsaw Piano Workshop:

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                     WPW Photo Albums ( FROM 2003 )

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WARSAW PIANO WORKSHOP is an intensive international piano master course designed by Pawel Skrzypek in 1997 and developed in 1998 and 1999 as the "Podlasie Musical Meetings". In 2000 after two-years of experiment, the course was moved to Warsaw, where it received its final shape and name: "Warsaw Piano Workshop". 

The Workshop takes place every year at the Frederic Chopin State School of Music during the second half of August. In recognition of talent of many younger students, the age range of the workshop's participants was extended in 2001. Two groups were established: (Group I) the Professional Performers  and (Group II) the Undergraduates, so the workshop now includes also outstanding pupils of primary music schools as well as participants from music high schools.

In our new form - the instructors for the Warsaw Piano Workshop Group I (university, college and in some cases, high-school levels) are Paweł Skrzypek (Warsaw - the WPW Director), Andrzej Artykiewicz (Gdańsk) and Czesław Stańczyk (Katowice). Instruction for Group II (high school and primary school level) is given by the group of top Polish high school teachers: Joanna Kurpiowska and Zofia Antes  from Warsaw, Mariusz Tytman from Plock and Adam Podrez from Bielsko-Biala. Zofia Antes also works as manager, assistant to professors of Group I, and English-Polish interpreter (during lessons).  

A different Guest Instructor is invited for one day every year to lecture and give open master classes. In 2000 and 2001 the Workshop featured pianists as Guest Tutors: Zbigniew Raubo (2000 - lecture and discussion about competitions) and Szabolcs Esztenyi (2001 - lecture on piano improvisation and open master class) as Guest Tutors. In 2003, the workshop presented an unusual lecture by world's renowned harpsichordist  Elżbieta Stefańska (Professor at Krakow Academy of Music). She lectured on the Baroque Dances, with music performed on the harpsichord and danced by  professional dancer, Romana Agnel, in Baroque costumes. In 2004 WPW  presented Professor Waldemar Wojtal (Academy of Music in Gdańsk), who gave lecture about main problems in interpretation of Viennese Classics' piano music.

Since 2005 WPW has been working on establishing cooperation with EPTA (European Piano Teachers Association) in running the Guest Lecture Program. The result of that work is expected to come up in 2006 or 2007.

Warsaw Piano Workshop offers new approach to master courses. Instead of studying with a single appointed tutor, a participant's program of several works is divided among the teachers. in that way participants can study equally under all three instructors of the Group, preparing a different piece of their program with each instructor. Each participant has a lesson every day during the course (nine lessons), and ample practice time is provided. although an all-participants concert is held at the conclusion of the course, the focus is on preparing new works for the student's repertoire. This concept was derived from critical observations of other courses in which polished programs are reworked. The conclusion was that substantially greater progress can be made by students when they work on new pieces instead of changing the old ones. Holding the course during the summer vacation enables the students to prepare new repertoire for new academic year. This system was introduced by Paweł Skrzypek in 1998 and, beside of the Warsaw Piano Workshop, is given exclusively run by the Beskidy Piano Workshop and the Gold Country Piano Institute in Nevada City, California, USA. The scholarship exchange program provides special awards to the best Polish and American participants: free participation in the sister program the next summer: The Gold Country Piano Institute in June for the Polish pianists and the Warsaw Piano Workshop for American pianists. For Information on the Gold Country Piano Institute, click "INSTITUTE" button or visit the GCPI web site at www.gcpiano.us  

Full tuition fee for foreign students to the Warsaw Piano Workshop is $1000 or $700 (depending on age). It includes at least 9 lessons, practice facilities at the school (up to 6 hours a day) and board at the student's dormitory in Warsaw Old Town area. As additional event a half-day excursion to Żelazowa Wola,  Chopin's birth place, is being arranged. The fee does not include meals.

Warsaw Piano Workshop also runs an Exchange Scholarship Program with Professor Andrzej Artykiewicz's Course held yearly in May in Lamentin, Guadeloupe Francaise (Caribbean).

first American and Polish piano students  

of the "U.S.A.-Poland Young Pianists' Scholarship Exchange Program"

1999 - 2003

Joanna Pociej

1999 - Poland

2001 - Poland

2002 -  U.S.A.