B I O G R A P H Y
Jan Krzysztof Broja was born in Warsaw in 1972. He is the prizewinner of numerous international competitions. In 1999 he was awarded the 1st prize at the M. K. Čiurlionis International Piano Competition in Vilnius, Lithuania; he was also awarded prizes at the International Competitions in: Hanau, Germany (1989), Braunschweig, Germany (1991), Bucharest, Rumania (1995) and Pasadena,California (2002).
He studied music in Western Germany between 1984 and 1993: with Wolfgang Hess in Frankfurt a. Main and with Karl-Heinz Kaemmerling in Hannover. Later he studied in Warsaw at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music with Jan Ekier. He graduated with honors in 1998.
Broja recorded for American, German, French, Japanese, Polish, Lithuanian and Russian TV and Radio. He is continuously active as a soloist in Poland and abroad. Lately he is performing also in company of Andrzej Bauer, one of the greatest cellists of our times. Broja performed in most European countries as well as in Japan and recently at the XXI International Piano Festival in Bucaramanga, Colombia (as a member of the jury as well). Other notable festival appearances in recent years include Ravello, Italy(2000,2003,2006) and Bratislava, Slovakia(2005)
Colaborated as musical consultant in the production of Roman Polanski’s Academy Award winning movie “The Pianist”.
After his success in Vilnius in 1999 Jan Krzysztof Broja was praised by the Lithuanian press as a “Pianist of the 21st Century” and invited by the jury member, world famous pianist Nikolai Petrov, for concerts in Moscow, where Broja had his debut in April 2000. He appeared with a recital at the “Musical Kremlin International Festival” by the side of such famous artists as the Borodin Quartet and Nikolai Petrov himself and performed two days later in the famous Great Hall of the P.I.Tshaikovsky Conservatory of Music with the State Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia . These concerts were enormously successful and Broja was promptly invited to appear again in the Kremlin Palast (2001) and in the Great Hall of the Tshaikovsky Conservatory as well, this time (January 2002) with a solo-recital recieved with standing ovations.
The subsequent sesons continued very succesfully for Broja who was enthusiasticly received in the greatest concert halls of eastern Europe: Russia, Ukraina, Lithuania, Yugoslavia and Poland. After his Warsaw Philharmonic recital in the 2002/2003 season, the the countrie’s most important music magazine Ruch Muzyczny (29.06.2003) compared him with the greatest pianists of the past century and, in a review titled “The Master”, described as “one of Poland’s most magnificent artists”.
Since then Broja has been a frequent guest in the National Philharmony in Warsaw. In 2005 he appeared there three times: solo, with orchestra and in a chamber music concert. Finally he performed in may 2007 Rachmaninow’s third piano concerto which was frenetically received.
In September 2007 Jan Krzysztof Broja recorded Szymanowski’s Symphony Concertante with the Warsaw National Filharmony Orchestra conducted by Antoni Wit. This CD will appear 2008 in the Naxos label. In autumn 2008 Jan Krzysztof Broja will perform among others in the Warsaw Filharmonic Hall and in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
