Mirosław Herbowski – piano. Graduated with honours from the Academy of Music in Krakow (1982) in the piano class of Prof. Irena Sijałowa-Vogel (student of H. Neuhaus). He honed his skills during master classes by R. Buchbinder, I. Klánský, F. Rauch, P. Rosen, and P. Salzman. He is a finalist and winner of music competitions in Warsaw, Rotterdam and Rome. Since 1982, Herbowski has performed regularly in Poland, almost the whole of Europe, Japan and the USA. He has taken part in music festivals in Warsaw, Poznań, Wrocław, Katowice, Kraków as well as in Jakobstad, Helsinki, Copenhagen and Salzburg, and made several television and radio recordings in Poland, Finland and Sweden. His records include works by Brahms, Franck, Schubert, Hindemith and Stravinsky. He has also served as a jury member of musical competitions, as well as holding piano classes in Krakow, Helsinki, Jakobstad and New York. In the years 1981–89 Mirosław Herbowski was assistant and lecturer at the Academy of Music in Krakow, in 1989–97 lecturer and head of the piano section at the Jakobstad Conservatory (Finland), and until 2000 associate professor at the Royal Academy of Music in Copenhagen, where he led the piano class. In 2001, he recommenced teaching at the Academy of Music in Kraków – since 2003, with a post-doctoral degree.
