Milena Pioruńska - the winner of the Young Musician of the Year Competition 2022!

On the 2^nd of May 2022 during a gala at the Warsaw Philharmonic five finalists of this year's edition of the Young Musician of the Year competition organized by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, TVP Kultura and the National Institute of Music and Dance presented themselves. The winner will represent Poland in July at the jubilee 20th Eurovision Competition for Young Musicians in Montpellier, France.

The event is a nationwide competition organized every two years and its aim is to promote the best young classical musicians. It is a major media event that promotes the most talented students of secondary music schools and encourages young people to improve their musical skills.

The winner of this year’s competition is violinist Milena Pioruńska, student of the Mieczysław Karłowicz Secondary Music School in Poznań.

The following musicians also took part in the final of this year's edition of the competition: Józef Wajdzik, accordion (Music School Complex in Poznań), Małgorzata Cieszko, oboe (Stanisław Moniuszko State Music School Complex in Bielsko-Biała), Paweł Libront, clarinet (Artur Rubinstein State Music School Complex in Bydgoszcz), Krzysztof Wierciński, piano (Zenon Brzewski Secondary Music School in the State Music School Complex No. 1 in Warsaw)

During the concert the finalists performed with the accompaniment of a symphony orchestra works of Fryderyk Chopin, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Henryk Wieniawski, Carl Maria von Weber and Ole Schmidt.

Jan Pieniążek, the drummer, who won the Young Musician of the Year title in the previous edition of the competition, performed with his band.

The contestants were judged by the Jury composed of: Alicja Kieruzalska, Dawid Runtz and Marek Bracha (chairman).

The co-organizers of this year's edition of the Young Musician of the Year competition are the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage together with the National Institute of Music and Dance and TVP Kultura. The partner of the event was the Warsaw Philharmonic.

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