Hubert Rutkowski
Piano
Hubert Rutkowski is a graduate of the Chopin University of Music in Warsaw in the class of Anna Jastrzębska-Quinn. He studied with Evgeni Koroliov at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg (concert exam). He won the Chopin Piano Competition in Hanover in 2007 and has made several CD recordings on modern and historical 19th century grand pianos. He has performed with artists such as Lilya Zilberstein, Alexei Lubimov, Severin von Eckardstein, Łukasz Borowicz, Martin Haselböck and Jamie Phillips. He has performed in Europe, Asia, Latin America and the USA, including at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Husum Castle Piano Festival, the Mozart Festival in Warsaw and the Ars Longa Festival in Moscow. On March 1, 2021, Chopin’s birthday, he realized the world premiere of the rediscovered historical Pleyel grand piano (1847) by Chopin in Hamburg. He is director of the Chopin Festival Hamburg and head of the piano department at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg.
