Peter Jablonski, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra & Łukasz Borowicz
Biographie Peter Jablonski, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra & Łukasz Borowicz
Peter Jablonski
Described by the Gramophone as ‘a pianist in full flower of his mature, imaginative artistry’, Peter Jablonski is an award-winning Swedish pianist. In 2025 he was awarded prestigious Swedish Grammy for his critically acclaimed recording of Ronald Stevenson’s piano works, released on Ondine. He is among the leading pianists of his generation, and during the last thirty years on international stages has performed with over 150 orchestras, given over 2000 concerts, and has been on more than 30 tours of Japan.
Discovered by Abbado and Ashkenazy and signed by Decca in his seventeenth year, he went on to perform, tour, collaborate, and record with many of the world’s leading orchestras and conductors, which include NHK Tokyo, Orchestre National de France, L’Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, DSO Berlin, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Tonhalle Zurich, Philadelphia, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, La Scala Philharmonic, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic, Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra, National Symphony Orchchestra of Polish Radio (NOSPR), Daniele Gatti, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Andris Nelsons, Daniel Harding, Kurt Sanderling, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Riccardo Chailly, Myung-Whun Chung, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, and Marie Jacqout.
He has appeared in concert and recitals in famous venues around the world, which include the Royal Festival Hall and the Barbican in London, Philharmonie Berlin, Suntory Hall Tokyo, Hollywood Bowl Los Angeles, Salle Pleyel Paris, Musikverein Vienna, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, among many others.
He has performed and recorded the complete piano concertos by Beethoven, P. Tchaikovsky, Andre Tchaikowsky, Rachmaninov, Bacewicz, Bartók, Melcher Melchers, the complete mazurkas by Chopin and Scriabin, and all piano sonatas by Prokofiev. During his three-decade-long career he developed a diverse repertoire that in addition to major works by Classical and Romantic composers also includes works by Barber, Gershwin, Szymanowski, Lutosławski, Copland, Stenhammar, with most recent additions of such composers as Ronald Stevenson and Grażyna Bacewicz.
He has worked with composers Witold Lutosławski and Arvo Part, and had a number of works composed for, and dedicated to him, including Wojciech Kilar’s Piano Concerto, for which he won the Orpheus Award for the world premiere performance at the Warsaw Autumn Festival. He remains a supporter of today’s composers and regularly gives world premieres of new works.
Jablonski’s extensive discography includes recordings he has made for Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, Philips, and Ondine labels. He has received numerous awards for his recordings, which include the Swedish Grammy for his recording of piano music by Ronald Stevenson, the Edison Award for best concerto recording of Shostakovich’s First Piano Concerto, Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, and Lutoslawski’s Paganini Rhapsody with Ashkenazy and RPO for Decca. He was presented with the Gramophone Classical Music Award for his Deutsche Grammophon recording of works by Cecile Chaminade with Anne Sofie von Otter and Bengt Forsberg.
In December 2022, Peter Jablonski was awarded the prestigious French Academy Charles Cros Award, Contemporary Music, for his recording of Grażyna Bacewicz’s piano music.
Peter Jablonski is the recipient of the Litteris et Artibus medal for his services to culture, granted to him by the King of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf. He is also the winner of the prestigious prize Arets Svensk i Varlden (International Swedish Personality of the Year), receiving it before ABBA and Astrid Lindgren. In 2022 he was elected into the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, and in 2025 he won a Swedish Grammy for his critically acclaimed recording of Ronald Stevenson’s piano works, released on Ondine.
