Konrad Olszewski holds a BMus (Piano Performance) from The University of Melbourne where he recently completed his Masters of Music (Piano Performance) under the guidance of Glenn Riddle. In 2013, Konrad embarked on a study venture in Europe that presented him the opportunity of working with eminent piano professors including Piotr Paleczny from The Chopin Academy, Warsaw and Leslie Howard from London. He was selected to participate in the 2013 London Masterclass Series directed by Norma Fisher (Royal College of Music) and also attended the 13th Sommerkurs Klavier at the Musikschule, Fellbach given by German pianist and teacher, Klaus Hellwig (Berlin).
Konrad has won first prize in the Ewa Malewicz Musical Scholarship (Sydney 2006), the Dorothy Glover Memorial Award (2006), the Herbert Davis Award (2006), the Chris Krans Instrumental Award (2006) and the Hephzibah Menuhin Memorial Award (2010). He has received many awards from the University of Melbourne MCM, including the J.S Bach Prize, the Lady Turner Exhibition Prize and the Searle Piano Faculty Merit Scholarship. He has performed many times as a soloist with the Zelman Symphony Orchestra and also gave a recital in Chopin’s birthplace in Zelazowa Wola, Poland in 2005.
More recently, Konrad has participated in the Sydney International Piano Competition and, soon after, was awarded the prestigious John Allison Sydney Eisteddfod Scholarship (2012) performing Rachmaninoff’s Piano Sonata No. 2. As an Associate Artist, he has received the Barry Bowen Accompanist award (2011), and has twice been awarded prizes as Best Accompanist in the National Liederfest (2011 and 2012). Konrad enjoys a busy schedule as a concert pianist, composer and collaborative pianist playing repertoire from a variety of genres including jazz.
