Karolina Nadolska will play in Milan

She is one of the leading young Polish pianists. Expo visitors will have a possibility to check it out by themselves. For the next six days, starting from 2nd Semptember, she will have recitals of Chopin's music at the Polish Pavilion.

Karolina Nadolska attended the Feliks Nowowiejski Music School in Gdańsk, where she was a pupil of Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń. In 2009, she graduated with distinction from the piano class of Piotr Paleczny at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw.
She has participated in several masterclasses, with such famous teachers as Vladimir Krainev, Karl-Hainz Kämmerling, Boris Berman, John O'Conor, Jacques Rouvier, Dominique Merlet, Bernard Ringeissen, Eugene Indjic and Dina Yoffe.

She has received grants from the Minister of Culture and the Mayor of Gdańsk, as well as scholarships from the Keimyung University Foundation and the 'Pro Polonia' Society of South Korea. She has been supported by the Polish National Children's Fund and won a place on the the Minister of Culture's 'Young Poland' scholarship programme.

She is a prize-winner of many national and international piano competitions, including the main prizes in Narva (1999), Szafarnia (2001) and Mariánské Láznĕ (2003), the special prize for the best Polish pianist at the 6th International Paderewski Piano Competition in Bydgoszcz (2004) and the Grand Prix and Radio Merkury Award in Konin (2006). In 2008, she won First Prize in the Yamaha Competition organised in Gdańsk by the Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe.

In 2011, she won Second Prize and the special prize for the best performance of works by Chopin at the All-Poland Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw.
She has given numerous recitals and appeared as a soloist with symphony orchestras in Poland's major concert halls, including the Warsaw Philharmonic. She has performed in the USA, Japan, Australia, Germany, Sweden, Italy, Estonia, France, Switzerland, Holland, Tunisia, Great Britain and Lithuania.
In addition to her concert work, she is also an assistant to Piotr Paleczny at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw.

2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 September, hours: 14:00, 16:00, 18:00

Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)

  • Waltzes, Op. 64: in D flat major No. 1, in C sharp minor No. 2, in A flat major No. 3
  • Mazurkas, Op. 50: in G major No. 1, in A flat Major No. 2, in C sharp minor No. 3   

Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849) / Ferenc Liszt (1811-1886)

Piano transcription from Polish Songs:
A maiden’s wish, Spring, The ring, Drinking song