Pianist Matteusz Rettner performs a programme of Schumann, Scriabin and Fauré.

Pianist and composer Mateusz Rettner enjoys a career as successful as it is diverse. In his recitals he often couples works from the standard repertoire with lesser known pieces and includes new works, many of them written especially for him.

His recent achievements include: receiving the Mercers’ Arts Award, 1st prize in the Brooks-van der Pump Competition in London, being a finalist in the prestigious Opus Yvelines Piano Competition in Maisons-Laffitte (France) as well as releasing a multi-award winning CD on the DUX label with works by Grażyna Bacewicz. Additionally, Mateusz Rettner has recently been awarded the City of Warsaw Artistic Scholarship to compose a musical work based on the Warsaw Uprising Diary by Polish writer and poet Miron Białoszewski.

Mateusz Rettner’s performance career as a soloist and chamber musician has taken him to some of the most prestigious venues in the UK as well as Poland, Germany and Spain, such as: Wigmore Hall, St. John’s Smith Square, the Royal Over-Seas League, Warsaw Philharmonic, Ambika P3, Lodz Philharmonic, Victoria and Albert Museum, Gdansk Philharmonic, Chopin Museum in Warsaw, Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall in London and others. In 2016 he made his concerto debut with the Lodz Philharmonic.