Jan Ekier - 100 years old today!
PR dla Zagranicy
Peter Gentle
29.08.2013 10:00
Jan Ekier, pianist and Chopin scholar, is 100 years old.
Jan Ekier: photo - wikicommons
A prizewinner at the Chopin International Competition in Warsaw in 1937, he sat on the jury of that prestigious event nine times, from 1949 to 1995).
He developed a fine career as a pianist, performing across Europe, in Japan and the South America.
But, as you will hear when reporter Michal Kubicki interviewed Artur Szklener, director of the Chopin Institute, it was as editor-in-chief of the National Edition of Chopin’s Works that Jan Ekier became an international authority.