THE 13th INTERNATIONAL PADEREWSKI PIANO COMPETITION

BYDGOSZCZ, POLAND, November 9th – 23rd, 2025

THE INAUGURAL CONCERT

📆 November 9th, 2025 

5 pm.

PADEREWSKI POMERANIAN PHILHARMONIC CONCERT HALL
Bydgoszcz | Szwalbe Street No. 6

Paderewski Pomeranian Philharmonic Orchestra
Mykoła Diadiura, conductor
Mateusz Krzyżowski, piano
Winner of the 12th International Paderewski piano Competition in Bydgoszcz, 2025

PROGRAM:

National anthem
Krzysztof Penderecki – Ciaccona in memoriam del Giovanni Paolo II
Fryderyk Chopin – Concerto no. 2 in F-minor, op. 21
Maestoso
Larghetto
Allegro vivace
Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony no. 5 in C-minor op. 6

MATEUSZ KRZYŻOWSKI – Ambassador of Culture for the city of Tychy. In 2023 he graduated from the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, where he studied under Prof. Joanna Ławrynowicz-Just. His interpretations are praised for their natural and flexible expression, always shaped with great care to faithfully reflect the composer’s intentions. He regularly performs in the most prestigious concert halls in Poland and abroad. The pianist is the winner of numerous competitions, including 1st Prize at the 12th Paderewski International Piano Competition in Bydgoszcz (2022), 1st Prize at the 12th Arthur Rubinstein in memoriam, International Competition for Young Pianists in Bydgoszcz (2021), and 1st Prize at the Fryderyk Chopin National Piano Competition (2018). In 2021 he represented Poland in the semi-finals of the 18th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. The artist has performed concert halls all over the world. He has collaborated with conductors such as Kai Bumann, Marek Moś, Michał Klauza, Wojciech Rodek, Mirosław Jacek Błaszczyk, Alexander Humala, Marek Wroniszewski, Jan Miłosz Zarzycki, Jakub Chrenowicz, and Jurek Dybała. He has been a recipient of scholarships from several prestigious programs, including “Młoda Polska” (Minister of Culture and National Heritage), the Jerzy Semkow Foundation, the Marshal of the Silesian Voivodeship, the National Fund for Children, and the “Tychy – Good Place” Foundation. In 2024 he was awarded the “Magna cum Laude” Medal as the best graduate of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music.

MYKOŁA DIADIURA – Ukrainian conductor born in Kyiv. His conducting career began in 1987 when he received the Special Prize of the Japanese Conductors Association at the International Conductors Competition in Tokyo. After the competition, he was invited by the world-renowned Seiji Ozawa for an internship in the United States, where he studied with Ozawa, Leonard Bernstein, and André Previn. Since 1988 he has worked as a conductor, and since 2011 as Music Director of the National Opera of Ukraine; in 1996 he became Chief Conductor of the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine. With this orchestra, Mykola Diadiura has toured extensively in Germany, France, Spain, Switzerland, Poland, and Turkey. Since 2022 he has been Artistic Director of the Pomeranian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra in Bydgoszcz. Mykola Diadiura has been honored with numerous distinctions, including the title of People’s Artist of Ukraine (1998), Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters (France, 2005), the Taras Shevchenko National Prize (2011), and Cavaliere dell’Ordine della Stella d’Italia (Italy, 2015).

The Symphony Orchestra of the Pomeranian Philharmonic traces its roots back to 1946. It found its permanent home in 1958 with the opening of the monumental building of the Pomeranian Philharmonic in Bydgoszcz. The orchestra was shaped and conducted, among others, by Robert Satanowski, Zbigniew Chwedczuk, Antoni Wit, Tomasz Bugaj, Mieczysław Nowakowski, Jerzy Salwarowski, Michael Zilm, Simca Heled, Roman Kofman, Marek Pijarowski, Tadeusz Wojciechowski, Kai Bumann, and today its Artistic Director is Mykola Diadiura. Distinguished conductors and composers who have collaborated with the orchestra include Ernest Ansermet, Roberto Benzi, Benjamin Britten, Aram Khachaturian, Riccardo Chailly, Juozas Domarkas, Jerzy Katlewicz, Kazimierz Kord, Jan Krenz, Witold Lutosławski, Jerzy Maksymiuk, Krzysztof Penderecki, Kurt Redel, Witold Rowicki, Jerzy Semkow, Stanisław Skrowaczewski, Saulius Sondeckis, Leopold Stokowski, Tadeusz Strugała, Eugene Tzigane, and Carlo Zecchi. The ensemble has performed many times in prestigious concert halls such as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Konzerthaus Berlin and the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein, as well as at Polish and international music festivals, including Wratislavia Cantans, Warsaw Autumn, the Gdańsk Music Festival, Berliner Festwochen, International Summer Festival Ljubljana, Schweriner Musiktage, and Frankfurter Festtage der Musik. The Orchestra’s performances in Austria, Italy, Denmark, France, Germany, Spain, Scotland, Switzerland, Russia, South Korea and Cyprus received enthusiastic applause and critical acclaim. At the request of Polish and foreign record labels, the musicians of the Symphony Orchestra of the Pomeranian Philharmonic have recorded, among others: Symphonies by Isang Yun (CPO), Chain II by Witold Lutosławski (awarded the Diapason d’Or, Thorofon), works by Karol Szymanowski (DUX), the Symphony in B minor Polonia by Ignacy Jan Paderewski (DUX), as well as albums for Polskie Nagrania, Veriton and Naxos. Among the most significant events of recent years were: the performance of Mozart’s Requiem on the 77th anniversary of the death of Ignacy Jan Paderewski, patron of the Pomeranian Philharmonic, in St. John’s Archcathedral in Warsaw; the premiere of Krzysztof Herdzin’s Te Deum, composed for the 100th anniversary of the birth of Karol Wojtyła; and the performance of one of Krzysztof Penderecki’s last works, Lacrimosa 2, at the unveiling of the monument to the Victims of the Pomeranian Crime of 1939 in Toruń. In February 2020 the Symphony Orchestra, together with the Berliner Cappella Choir, performed at the Berlin Philharmonic. In 2019 the Orchestra, together with the Singakademie Choir of Frankfurt (Oder) and soloists, marked the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II by presenting Wojciech Kilar’s Missa pro pace in Potsdam, Bydgoszcz and Toruń, under the direction of Rudolf Tiersch. In January 2023, the Orchestra inaugurated the jubilee celebrations of the 70th anniversary of the Pomeranian Philharmonic, as well as the Bydgoszcz Year of Andrzej Szwalbe, the founder and first long-term director of the institution.

TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE POMERANIAN PHILHARMONIC’S TICKET OFFICE OR ON THE WEBSITE: https://www.bilety24.pl/koncert/710-inauguracja-xiii-miedzynarodowego-konkursu-pianistycznego-im-i-j-paderewskiego-136858?id=809650