Szymon Nehring (born 29 September 1995) is a Polish pianist.
Born in
Kraków
, officially the Royal Capital City of Kraków, is the List of cities and towns in Poland, second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city has a population of 804,237 ...
, Nehring began piano lessons at the age of five. He won the first prize in the 15th
Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition
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in 2017, and additionally won the prize of Best Performer of a Chopin Piece, the Advanced Studies prize, the Junior Jury prize, as well as the Audience Favorite prize. Previously, he had been a finalist in the
XVII International Chopin Piano Competition
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in 2015.
Nehring has performed with such orchestras as the
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
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,
Santander Orchestra,
Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra, the
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
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, and the
Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century The Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century () is a Dutch early music orchestra. Frans Brüggen and Lucy van Dael co-founded the orchestra in 1981.
Sieuwert Verster became financial manager in 1984. Although he did not have a formal title with the orc ...
with conductors including
Jerzy Maksymiuk
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Maksymiuk was born in Grodno, Second Polish Republic (now Belarus). He studied violin, piano, conducting and composition at the Warsaw ...
,
Jacek Kaspszyk
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,
Grzegorz Nowak,
Omer Meir Wellber
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Biography
Wellber began musical studies at age 5, on accordion and piano. He became a composition student of Tania Taler at age 9. He attended the musi ...
,
John Axelrod
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, and
Krzysztof Penderecki
Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki (; 23 November 1933 – 29 March 2020) was a Polish composer and conductor. His best-known works include '' Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima'', Symphony No. 3, his '' St Luke Passion'', '' Polish Requiem'', '' ...
. In 2017–2019 he was a student of
Boris Berman in the Artist Diploma program at the
Yale School of Music
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.
Discography
References
1995 births
Living people
Polish male classical pianists
21st-century Polish classical pianists
21st-century Polish male musicians
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