Tymoteusz Bies
Pianist, composer, music producer. Graduate of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice in the class of Zbigniew Raubo (2018). Since 2020, he has been an assistant in the Piano Department and the Chamber Music Department of his alma mater. He is the winner of more than 30 competitions, including the National Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition, the International Piano Competition of Friuli Venezia Giulia and the Karol Szymanowski International Music Competition.
He is actively involved in concert activities in Poland and abroad. He has been a guest at, among others, the International Chopin Festival in Duszniki-Zdrój, the Chopin and His Europe Festival and the Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival. He has given concerts with many Polish orchestras under the baton of, among others, Juozas Domarkas, Lawrence Foster and Domingo Hindoyan.
He has released four studio albums: Mozart, Chopin (Piotr Kler Foundation 2017), Backwards: Schubert, Chopin, Szymanowski (KNS Classical 2020), Irrberge (DUX 2022) and Bach: Goldberg Variations (DUX 2023). From 2020 to 2022, he was an Artist in Residence with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice.
He is an author of film music. In 2021, he took part in the production of the film Bread and Salt (Chleb i sól; directed by Damian Kocur) as a lead actor and performer of piano pieces. This picture received a number of awards at film festivals around the world. Tymoteusz Bies was honoured with the Jantar 2023 award ‘for the discovery of an actor – a male role’ at the Youth and Film Festival in Koszalin.
[2024]