Fondazione Accademia di Musica di Pinerolo e Torino

Hubert Rutkowski is a graduate of the Chopin University of Music in Warsaw in the class of Anna Jastrzębska-Quinn. He studied with Evgeni Koroliov at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg (Konzertexamen). He is a winner of the Chopin Piano Competition in Hannover 2007 and medalist of the Maria Canals Competition in Barcelona 2006 The pianist made several CD recordings on modern and historical grand pianos of the 19th century. He has performed with artists such as Lilya Zilberstein, Alexei Lubimov, Severin von Eckardstein, Łukasz Borowicz, Martin Haselböck, Jamie Phillips. He performs in Europe, Asia, Latin American and the USA, including Schleswig Holstein Music Festival, Husum Piano Festival, Mozart Festival in Warsaw, Ars Longa Festival in Moscow, Paderewski Festival Warsaw. On 1 March 2021, on Chopin’s birthday, he realised the world premiere of Chopin’s rediscovered historical Pleyel piano (1847) in Hamburg. He ist the artistic director of the Chopin Festival Hamburg as well as head of the piano department of the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg. In recent years, his students have won prizes at major international piano competitions.