Pianist Wojciech Waleczek has toured widely, reaching destinations that rarely see visiting European classical artists. He is also a prominent educator. Waleczek has made several unusual recordings of Liszt's music. In 2024, he released an album of Liszt's Weihnachtsbaum, a suite of Christmas pieces, on the Naxos label.
Waleczek was born in Pyskowice, near Katowice in southern Poland's Silesia region, on March 9, 1980. He graduated from the Wojciech Kilar State Music School Complex in Katowice and then went on to the city's Academy of Music, studying in the piano class of Zbi...