Maciej Skrzeczkowski (2001) specializes in historical performance on the harpsichord and fortepiano. He received numerous awards in piano and harpsichord competitions in Poland and abroad, including the 3rd prize at the Concorso Internazionale di Clavicembalo in Milan in 2019 and the 1st prize and special Outhere award at the Musica Antiqua harpsichord competition in Bruges in 2023, where he was one of the youngest winners in the competition’s long history.
He has performed at venues such as the Fryderyk Chopin Museum in Warsaw, Chopin’s birthplace in Żelazowa Wola, the „Wanda Landowska in memoriam” festival in Warsaw, as well as in Italy, Belgium, and Japan. In 2019, he participated in the premiere recording of Roman Palester’s Concertino per clavicembalo e dieci strumenti with Sinfonia Iuventus conducted and Łukasz Borowicz. He is also a promoter of Franciszek Lessel’s music— in 2022, he gave the first concert presentation of all of the composer’s sonatas at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague; since then, he regularly includes Lessel’s works in his concert programmes.
He graduated from the State Music School in Płońsk in Anna Koźniewska’s piano class. He continued his education at the Zenon Brzewski Music School in Warsaw, where he studied piano with Marek Bracha and harpsichord with Beata Popis. He is currently studying harpsichord and fortepiano at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague with Carole Cerasi, Bart van Oort, and Petra Somlaï.
He has honed his skills through participation in numerous masterclasses, including those with Skip Sempé, Pierre Hantaï, Władysław Kłosiewicz, Elżbieta Stefanska, Kristian Bezuidenhout, and Christophe Rousset.