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Virtuosity in sound, word and action

Patrycja Piekutowska — violinist
Biography

Virtuosity,
worn lightly

For over 25 years I have performed as a solo violinist, appearing in 41 countries on 6 continents. I hold a postdoctoral degree in musical arts and for 15 years I lectured at higher music academies. For an album of Krzysztof Penderecki's music — with whom I collaborated for 19 years — I received the prestigious MIDEM Classical Award in Cannes, becoming the only Polish violinist honoured with that trophy. From the start of my career I have worked with the business world, building a bridge between art and companies in Poland and abroad. My knowledge and experience working with nearly 500 companies have led to numerous invitations as a motivational speaker.

A classical foundation is my starting point, not my finish line. I moved the violin from great concert halls to galas, conferences and congresses, with my entertainment project about the world's metropolises. I blend music written to my commission with words and with true stories.

Roles

One artist,
many roles

Violinist

Violinist

I have played in the world’s most prestigious concert halls, including Lincoln Center in New York, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires and the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing. I have released 13 albums, several devoted to 20th-century Polish music. I have received numerous distinctions for promoting Polish culture abroad, including the „Gloria Artis” Medal for Merit to Culture and the Future Leader diploma in the „25 Leaders for Poland’s Next 25 Years” competition of the Teraz Polska Foundation.

Speaker

Speaker

I take the stage with a talk on the impossible, leadership and courage — with the energy of a concert, drawn from my own experience, not from handbooks. 25 years of bridging art and business and working with nearly 500 companies become a story that moves the room and stays with it. I speak in Polish and English — at conferences, galas and company events, including the European Economic Congress and the UEK rector’s lecture.

Author

Author

I wrote "Impossible Adventures" while sitting in a wheelchair after breaking my leg in six places. I could not fly, so I flew through my memories. These are 22 stories from my artistic journeys around the world. What you do not see beyond the stage, before or after a concert, is very funny, moving and... impossible. The book plays, too: each story includes a QR code with a piece from one of my albums. In total, almost three hours of classical and entertainment music.

1400+

concerts in 41 countries, across 5 continents.

2008

MIDEM Cannes Classical Award — the first Polish violinist to win it, for an album of Penderecki’s music.

Medal

Gloria Artis — for service to Polish culture.

25 yrs

merging music with the world of business.

13

albums — from Wieniawski to Penderecki.

2021

Forbes Women — on the list of 100 Women of the Year.

2020

Woman of the Year, Puls Biznesu — in the social-impact category.

PLN 7M

raised in six years to modernise children’s hospitals.

147

companies engaged as partners in my projects.

Series

creator of the “Great Artists for Little Patients” charity concerts with world opera stars.

Book

Impossible
Adventures

In “Impossible Adventures” I wrote down 22 stories from five continents — about unimaginable twists where utterly non-artistic challenges were waiting for me: some funny to the point of tears, some moving, and some stubbornly testing my endurance and how high the bar was set. The things you won’t find in handbooks: real, true-to-life events from the world’s stages and beyond.

Each chapter is its own story — why I was robbed during a concert in Peru, how to get on stage when there are no steps and the stage turns out to be wet, why in Sydney I ran like Usain Bolt, who I rode a rickshaw through the Manhattan snow with and why, and how you put together an exhibition of paintings in Beijing.

Patrycja Piekutowska — Przygody niemożliwe

Patrycję znam od lat i od lat rozśmiesza mnie do łez. Jeśli macie w głowie obraz nobliwej skrzypaczki z najlepszych sal koncertowych świata, to… zgadza się tylko druga część zdania. Jeśli wyobrazicie sobie najbardziej nieprawdopodobne scenariusze z pościgiem, złodziejami i przebieraniem się na przednim siedzeniu małego samochodu, to jest to tylko preludium. Nie czekajcie, przeczytajcie!”

Beata Sadowska
Media

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