Kacper
Źaromski

Kacper Żaromski is a native of Rymanów Zdrój, a small village in south-eastern Poland. He graduated with the highest grades from the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Music School in Krosno, under the teaching of Mrs. Dorota Skibicka. He then proceeded to complete a five-year course of study with Professor Katarzyna Popowa Zydroń, after which he was awarded both a Bachelor's and a Master's degree with distinction from the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music. He is currently pursuing a Performance Diploma at Roosevelt University's Chicago College of Performing Arts, under Professor Edward Auer.

He participated in piano masterclasses in Gdańsk, Żywiec, Sanok, Łódź, Seoul and Cracow. He was invited to take part in the XXII National Piano Master Class in Duszniki-Zdrój, during the 78th Duszniki International Chopin Piano Festival. He had the privilege of working with the following distinguished professors: Dina Yoffe and Dang Thai-Son, Mikhail Voskresensky, Dmitri Alexeev, Boris Bloch, Tamas Ungar, Michel Béroff, Eugen Indjic, Kevin Kenner, Orla McDonagh, Eldar Nebolsin, Philippe Giusiano, Wojciech Świtała, Andrzej Tatarski, Grzegorz Kurzyński, Waldemar Andrzejewski, Aleksiej Orłowiecki, Andrzej Jasiński, Wiera Nosina, Mirosław Herbowski, Andrzej Pikul, Urszula Bortkiewicz, Bogumił Nowicki, Edward Wolanin, Mariusz Drzewicki, Karol Radziwonowicz.

He gives regular concerts in Poland and abroad: Budapest, Cracow, Duszniki-Zdrój, Warsaw, Gdańsk, Sofia, Vienna, Łódź, Źelazowa Wola and many others. He played Chopin 2nd Piano Concerto with Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw under the baton of Michał Klauza (2022), and with Rzeszów Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Marek Pijarowski (2018). Recently he performed Bela Bartók 3rd Piano Concerto with Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Michał Dworzyński (2023).

He is a prize winner of many Polish and international piano competitions – II Prize (Prize I was not awarded) of VII International Chopin Piano Competition in Budapest (2016), VI Prize in 51st Polish National Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition (2022), I Prize in International Competition in Moscow (2016), I Prize in Leopold Bellan International Piano Competition in Paris (2018, 2020), I prize at I Internationalen Chopin-Klavierwettbewerb in Vienna (2018), I Prize in International Chopin Competitions in Antonin (2017) and Rzeszów (2017), and many others. He has been awarded in chamber music competitions: III Prize in 7th International Chamber Music Competition in Bydgoszcz (2020), II Prize in 1st International Online Instrumental Performance Competition (2021). In 2020 he got an Artistic Prize founded by Elżbieta and Krzysztof Penderecki at XV International Piano Forum in Sanok. In 2015 and  he received a scholarship of Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage, as well as the Scholarship of Polish Prime Minister. In 2016 he received a scholarship of Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage again. He is a grantee of Interpiano Foundation, and he received a scholarships from the Rector of the Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz for the best students (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022).