Mateusz Borowiak has won the third Prize at the 2013 Queen Elisabeth Piano Competition Brussels. Born 1988 in the UK, Mateusz Borowiak studied piano and composition at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama (GSMD) – Junior School and read music at Girton College, Cambridge, graduating with double 1st class honours in 2009. He continued his piano studies with Andrzej Jasinski at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, Poland, graduating with high honours in 2011.
He has appeared as both soloist and chamber musician at numerous venues in the UK including Barbican, Birmingham and Cadogan halls, Purcell Room, St Martin-in-the-Fields, St James’s Piccadilly, Snape Maltings, West Road Concert Hall – Cambridge, on festivals including King’s Lynn, Lower Machen, the Northern Aldborough, Stratford on Avon and Cambridge, and in Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, Latvia and Ukraine. He has performed with orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic, London Mozart Players, Cambridge University Musical Society Symphony Orchestra, European Union Chamber Orchestra, Silesian Chamber Orchestra, Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra, Sinfonietta Cracovia, London Octave, Czestochowa Philharmonic Orchestra, Vallés Symphony Orchestra and Silesian String Quartet.
Mateusz Borowiak is a recipient of several piano and composition awards including 1st prize for keyboard at the Royal Over-Seas League Music Competition in London (2006), 1st prize at the Christopher Duke Piano Recital Competition (2006), 1st prize and Audience Award at the 21st Rina Sala Gallo International Piano Competition in Monza, Italy (2010), Harriet Cohen Memorial Award (2010), the Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe Scholarship (2011), Gold Medal and 1st prize, prize for the youngest finalist and prize for the best performer of the music of Isaac Albeniz at the 57th Maria Canals International Piano Competition in Barcelona, Spain (2011), the Wax Chandlers Prize (2002), the Eiluned Davies Prize (2003), the Lutine Prize (2005), Musicians Benevolent Fund Award (2006), the Environ Prize (2006), the GSMD Principal’s Prize (2006), the Alkan Prize (2007), the London Girton Association Award (2007), the Rima Alamuddin Prize (2008), Nigel W Brown Music Prize (2009), Sir Arthur Bliss Prize (2010) and the Contemporary Prize (2011), as well as University and College prizes including the Girton College Music Scholarship (2006 and 2008), Sophia Turle Scholarship (2008), Jane Catherine Gamble Award (2008), Donald Wort Award (2008 and 2009), Beatrice Mills Award (2009) and Thérèse Montefiore Prize (2009). In 2006, aged 17 he was awarded the AGSMD Piano Performing Diploma with High Honours – normally only awarded at postgraduate level at the GSMD.
