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Cezary Sanecki is a pianist, an alumnus of the Academy of Music in Łódź, where he studied piano under prof. Tadeusz Chmielewski (diploma with distinction) and chamber music under prof. Rajmund Ambroziak and prof. Bronisław Hajn. He is the winner of the 1st prize and the Krzysztof Penderecki Special Award at the Polish National Chamber Music Competition in Łódź in 1986. As a soloist and a chamber musician, he performed in Poland as well as in Europe and Asia. A significant part of his recitals and chamber music concerts programmes’ consist of polish and 19th and 20th century music. He has performed numerous premieres of works by contemporary composers which he presented at international music festivals. He cooperated with numerous famous artists, such as Andrzej Orkisz, Piotr Pławner, Tomasz Król, and Urszula Kryger. A special place in his artistic activity is dedicated for piano duets performed with great success with such artists as Joanna Hajn-Romanowicz, Beata Cywińska, and Robert Gawroński. He recorded over twenty albums with works by composers like Henryk Wieniawski, Johannes Brahms, Manuel de Falla, Maurice Ravel, Bela Bartok, Max Bruch, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Gražyna Bacewicz, Robert Schumann, Karol Szymanowski, as well as polish contemporary composers. The album with works for violin and piano by Karol Szymanowski (in duet with violinist Aleksandra Szwejkowska-Belica) was nominated for the Fryderyk Music Award. He leads a piano class at the Academy of Music in Łódź. Between 2008 and 2012, he served as dean of the Faculty of Piano, Harpsichord and Organ at the Łódź Academy of Music, and in 2012, he was elected as the Academy's rector. In June 2013, he received the Professor of Musical Arts degree.