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Nicole Kie\u0142basiewicz<\/strong> was born in 1998 in Wroclaw, Poland. Since 2018, she has been living in Zurich, where she completed her Bachelor\u2019s and Master\u2019s degrees at the Zurich University of the Arts in the piano class of Prof. Konstantin Scherbakov. She is currently pursuing a Master\u2019s degree with a specialization in Piano Chamber Music and Lied Interpretation with Prof. Christoph Berner. She also graduated from the Karol Lipi\u0144ski Music Academy in Wroc\u0142aw, where she studied with Prof. Grzegorz Kurzy\u0144ski. During various masterclasses, she had the opportunity to work with renowned pianists such as Mikhail Voskresensky, Adrian Oetiker, Andrzej Jasi\u0144ski, Wojciech \u015awita\u0142a, and Philippe Giusiano.
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Nicole Kie\u0142basiewicz received her first piano lessons at the age of three and completed her musical education at the Karol Szymanowski Music School in Wroc\u0142aw, where she studied for 12 years under Prof. Helena Furmanowicz-Kurzy\u0144ska. By the age of 9, she started playing in a piano duo and, one year later, in a piano trio. The cooperations lasting almost 10 years sparked a great passion for chamber music which remains the artist\u2019s main interest to this day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Since childhood, she has attended numerous national and international competitions, where she has received many prizes, including the 3rd Prize at the III International Leopold Godowsky Piano Competition for Young Virtuosos in Warsaw (2017), the 1st Prize at the XI National Forum of Youth Instrumentalists of Karol and Antoni Szafranek in Rybnik (2015), the 3rd Prize at the XX International Piano Competition J. S. Bach in Gorz\u00f3w (2010), and several chamber music awards \u2013 the 2nd Prize at the IX International Chamber Music Competition in Rzesz\u00f3w (2014), the 1st Prize at the VI Chamber Music Competition in Katowice (2013), and the 1st place at the IX German-Polish Piano Competition \u201cJohann Adam Hiller\u201d in G\u00f6rlitz (2010).
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In 2022, the artist was selected by PIANONews Records to record a CD. As a Pole and and an enthusiast of the music of Polish composers, she included in her first album compositions by Karol Szymanowski, Leopold Godowsky, Gra\u017cyna Bacewicz and Pawe\u0142 Mykietyn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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