During the 2005 Chopin Competition, the quiet 20-year-old pianist Rafal Blechacz promised himself that he wouldn't listen to the playing of a single other competitor. This way, he decided, he would ...

As an internationally renowned pianist, Rafal Blechacz has gained acclaim for his mastery of Frédéric Chopin’s works. Blechacz became the first pianist in history to win every single first prize at ...

Rafal Blechacz is a 22-year-old virtuoso from Poland and big news in the piano world. In 2005, barely out of his teens, he won the 15th Frederic Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, one of the majors.

1 Michael Tilson Thomas, Longtime San Francisco Symphony Leader, Dies at 81 Blechacz began piano lessons at the age of five, and at the age of 20 he became the sole recipient of all five first prizes ...

Polish pianist Rafal Blechacz credits his country's most beloved composer, Frederic Chopin, for his success. "When I started to play Chopin, I realized that this was the right composer for me," he ...

, Blechacz talked to the Kalamazoo Gazette on Tuesday night where he discussed a range of topics and offered more insight into his life and career. At 28, Rafal Blechacz is one of the youngest Gilmore ...

The young Polish pianist Rafal Blechacz has proved himself to be a formidable and imaginative interpreter of Chopin's music, and happily Chopin forms the backbone of his Sunday recital in San ...

A shy young prodigy enters the limelight. Frederic Chopin used to tell his students, “Having overcome all the difficulties, played thousands of notes, you arrive at a charming simplicity that is the ...

"I wanted to be concentrated only on my repertoire, on my interpretations," he told me during this studio performance. Blechacz's self-contained approach led to an unprecedented result at what may be ...