Anna Rutkowska-Schock

has been a laureate of many national piano competitions and she reached the final stage of the European Chopin Piano Competition in Darmstadt, Germany, as a piano student of Prof. Helena Fumanowicz-Kurzynska. In 1997, she was awarded a scholarship to attend Boise State University (Idaho, USA) by a French-American pianist, Dr. Madeleine Forte. Dr. Forte was a student of Alfred Cortot, and Anna Rutkowska-Schock worked with her on French and American piano repertoire. After just one and a half years, she graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Piano Performance. In 2001, the pianist graduated with a Masters degree from the Academy of Music in Wroclaw, in the piano class of Prof. Grzegorz Kurzynski.

In 2003 she received the Best Accompanist award in the IBLA Grand Prize International Music Competition. She has been invited to work as the staff accompanist for the IBLA Grand Prize Competition every year since, and in the same capacity for international music competitions in Rome, Peru, Slovakia and Poland. Since 2007, she has been a jury member of the IBLA Grand Prize International Competition.

In 2006 she received a scholarship to take part in the 2-month Summer Academy of Music in Santa Barbara. During this course and festival she mastered her collaborative piano skills under Prof. Anne Epperson. In the same year, the artist published a CD recording of the solo piano piece “Parc d’Attractions”, a collaborative product of 9 different composers to commemorate the EXPO in Paris in 1937. In 2007 she was the co-director, along with Jeffrey James from New York, of the Festival of American Music in Wroclaw.

Anna Rutkowska-Schock completed her Doctorate of Musical Arts in 2006 and received a post-doctoral degree in 2013. She has given solo and chamber concerts in Poland, the U.S.A. (including several performances at Carnegie Hall), Indonesia, Peru, Germany, Italy, France, Holland, Great Britain, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Russia.