Warminster Arts Club
at
The Athenaeum Arts Centre,
High Street, Warminster, BA12 9AE
Telephone 213891
26th Season 1979 – 1980
Friday 30th May 1980, 8 p.m.
Janusz Stechley, Piano Recital.
When Janusz Stechley won the Nawrocki Prize in the
1975 Chopin Competition in Warsaw, he had clearly
embarked upon an international career as a virtuoso
pianist. Born in Halifax, Yorkshire, his musical gifts were
soon recognised by his mother, under whose guidance he
began to learn the piano at the age of two. His first public
performance took place three years later, and while still
only eleven he was awarded a scholarship to the Warsaw
Conservatoire, since when he has studied under Eric
Harrison, Angus Morrison, Bernard Roberts, Ryszard
Bakst, the notable Chopin specialist, and John Barstow.
Recitals, broadcasts and recordings in Europe, in
addition to performances of the complete Beethoven
Sonata and Concerto cycles in this country, have already
testified to Stechley’s technical and interpretative
abilities, as well as to the extent of his repertoire.