About
Today Tomasz Ritter can be regarded as one of the Poland’s most original pianists. The young musician is a winner of IX International Young Pianists Competition Arthur Rubinstein in Memoriam in Bydgoszcz, as well as of some other international competitions, in particular those in San Sebastián, Prague, and Warsaw (Szymanowski in Memoriam). In 2018, Tomasz Ritter won the world's first Frederic Chopin piano competition performed on instruments from the composer's era.
The pianist was born in 1995 in the city of Lublin. He was 7 when he began studying music. Since 2008, he has been a pupil of Irina Rumyantseva at a Warsaw music college named after Karol Szymanowski. He graduated with honors from the college in 2014.
From September 2014 on, Tomasz Ritter studies in Moscow P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where his tutors are such prominent professors as M.Voskresensky (piano), A.Lyubimov (piano, fortepiano), M.Uspenskaya, and A.Schevchenko (harpsichord).
Tomasz Ritter tours Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, Lithuania, Belgium, Netherlands, France, Italy, Japan. He performs solo gigs, and plays at festivals. He works with such prominent collectives as the Martinů Quartet (Prague), Stradivari Quartet (Zurich), Sinfonia Varovia, Sinfonia Baltica, The Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra.