Sławomir Dobrzański

In 2021, he won "The Outstanding Teacher Award" sponsored by the Kansas Music Teachers Association.

Dobrzański is the author of the first English language biography of the 19th-century pianist and composer Maria Szymanowska. Other publications (a selection):

For his contributions to Polish and Polish-American culture, in 2016 the pianist was honored by the Government of the Republic of Poland with the title "Meritorious for Polish Culture".

Dobrzański was a member of music faculties at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota and the University of Rhode Island. He joined the Kansas State University music faculty in 2005. Currently he is Professor of Music in the School of Music, Theatre and Dance, where he teaches piano performance, chamber music and piano literature. Between 2009 and 2013, he served as the Chair of Keyboard Studies.

Dobrzański is the founder and former artistic director of the Chopin Society of Connecticut established in 1999. He frequently performs as soloist and chamber musician in Europe, South America, China, and throughout the United States. Dobrzański was a member of the "Atma" Piano Trio, with Blanka Bednarz (violin) and Cheung Chau (cello). The ensemble, created in 2001, regularly performed in Europe, Asia and the US.

Dobrzański has won several competitions for young artists such as the MTNA Wurlitzer Collegiate Artist Competition in Spokane, WA (1993, National First Runner-up), the Naftzger Young Artist Competition in Wichita, KS (Grand Prize, and Piano Division Prize, 1993), the Lincoln Symphony Young Artist Competition in Lincoln, NE (First Prize, 1993) and the University of Connecticut Concerto Competition (1998).

He was born in Wrocław (Poland). He is a graduate of the Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, where he studied with Regina Smendzianka, Andrzej Dutkiewicz and Jerzy Maciejewski. He also studied privately with Kajetan Mochtak in Warsaw. In 1992-1994 he studied at the University of Kansas in Lawrence with Jack Winerock. He also participated in summer courses in Switzerland and Poland, where he studied piano performance with Malcolm Frager, Mieczysław Horszowski and Victor Merzhanov. Additionally, he benefited from coaching sessions with Nina Tichman in Mainz, Germany, and Jan Gorbaty in New York City. In 2001, he graduated with the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Connecticut, where he was a student of Neal Larrabee and Zelma Bodzin.

Dobrzański has taken part in numerous music festivals, both as a lecturer and concert artist, among others at the International Festival of New Music in Darmstadt (1989), "Warsaw Autumn" (1990), List-Glenn Festival at California State University in Los Angeles, CA (1990, 1999), Chopin Festival in Hawaii (1993), Mid-West Society of Composers Conference in Edmond, OK (1993), Potomac River Piano Festival in Great Falls, VA (VA, 1999), the International Chopin Piano Festival for Young Pianists in Wrocław (2000), Szymanowski Festival in Beijing (2011) and "Interfest Bitola" in Macedonia (2013).

Sławomir Dobrzański (born 11 May 1968) is a Polish-American pianist, teacher and musicologist.