One of the most versatile Polish pianists. A soloist, a chamber musician, an improviser. He graduated with honours from the Musical Academy in Gdansk in 1982, to later hone his skills in Vienna. He gives concerts around Europe, North and South America, Russia and Japan. He plays chamber music with the best Polish violinists and singers. He recorded over 40 long-plays, three of which – with pieces by Wieniawski, Paderewski and Bach – received the „Fryderyk” awards of the Polish phonographic industry in 1997, 2000 and 2003 respectively.

   The artist gives music courses and seminars in Scandinavia, the Americas and in Japan.

 

  Waldemar Malicki was the founding father and president of the I.J. Paderewski Society. Since 2000 he has been the artistic director of the „Fun and Classic” Festival of Musical Virtuosity and Humour in Nowy Sącz.

 

   He is the co-author and performing artist of the „Philharmonic of Wit” project directed by Jacek Kęcik for the Polish public television TVP. He is also a recipient of a number of TV awards, including „Telekamera” (2009), „Wiktor” (2011) and the TVP’s „Artist without Borders” (2016).

    At the end of his life, Liszt, a composer of many faces, moved to Rome, decided to become a deacon and renounce the easy life he believed he had been running. Those last years yielded a series of extraordinary piano compositions. Despite their miniature character, they do not form any suite cycle, they break with all conventions of age-old forms, sailing freely in the harmonic space and easily breaking out of the tonal system. Gentleness mixes with brutality, pathos with tenderness, sanctity with profanity. You will hardly ever hear them played in the philharmonic; they lack the exciting virtuosity, the cantilena touch, the romantic pianism.  From a musicologist’s point of view, they no longer belong to the 19^th century, but neither do they point in any of the directions that came to define the next century; as if suspended in an indefinite space, levitating in the fourth dimension.