Szymon Nehring

Biography

Considered to be one of the most exceptionally gifted pianists of his generation in Poland, Szymon Nehring is the only Pole to have won the first prize at the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Tel Aviv (2017). He was also a finalist at the Chopin Competition in Warsaw with only 19 years of age.

In the season 2025/26 he will release Vol. II of his Chopin Solo Works cycle for the Warsaw Chopin Institute as well as a recording of the Symphony No. 4 and Marzukas by the Polish composer Karol Szymanowski, together with the National Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra and Marin Alsop (Rubicon).

Szymon Nehring performs with orchestras such as the Sinfonia Varsovia, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Bamberger Symphoniker, Hamburger Symphoniker, Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille and Orchestre Pasdeloup in France and the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, collaborating with conductors such as John Axelrod, Lukas Borowicz, Sylvain Cambreling, Karina Canellakis, Pablo Heras-Casado, Marzena Diakun, Lawrence Foster, Giancarlo Guerrero, Jacek Kaspszyk, Grzegorz Nowak, Pawel Przytocki, George Tchitchinadze, David Zinman and Omer Meir Wellber. He also performed and recorded with the late Krzysztof Penderecki, among other works Penderecki’s piano concerto.

He has performed in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Tonhalle Zürich, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid, the Konzerthaus in Berlin, the DR Koncerthuset in Copenhagen, the Musikverein in Vienna, as well as the Herkulessaal and the Prinzregententheater in Munich.

Many recordings have already been released, in recital and with orchestra, including Chopin’s two piano concertos under the baton of K. Penderecki or an album with minimalistic music.

He started his education as a student of the M. Karłowicz’s Primary School and then the F. Chopin’s Secondary Music School in Cracow (2008–2014), which he graduated with distinction, being in the piano class of Olga Łazarska. Then he graduated from the Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz under the guidance of prof. Stefan Wojtas and in the period of 2017–2019 he has completed the Artist Diploma program at the Yale University in New Haven in the class of prof. Boris Berman. Since 2020, he has been a PHD student at the Doctoral School of the Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz in the class of prof. Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń.

In 2015, he was awarded the Krystian Zimerman scholarship.

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