Pianist Krystian Zimerman won the prestigious Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw at the age of eighteen and was catapulted to the forefront of international attention in the music world.
He has worked with many great musicians including Artur Rubinstein, Leonard Bernstein, and Herbert von Karajan, all of whom were very influential in his career. Zimerman has a very meticulous attitude to recording and many of his discs have won major prizes, including the Gramophone Award, the Grand Prix du Disque, and others.
Mr. Zimerman was born on the 5th of December, 1956
Here he is in a video playing the Sonata #10 by Mozart:
