Biography

Bożena Maria Ficht-Maciejowska - a Polish pianist. She graduated the Academy of Music in Cracow, where she studied under Janusz Dolny. She continued her piano education during postgraduate studies at Musikhochschule Trossingen in Germany and the P. Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, under Victor Merzhanov. Ms Maciejowska made her debut at the Polish Music Festival in France (Quimper), where, under the baton of Bruno Poindefert she performed Concerto E minor op. 11 no. 1 of Frederic Chopin together with the Breton Symphony Orchestra. She performs in Poland, Germany, Russia, Ukraina, Holland, France, Switzerland and Finland. In years 1994-2015 she was a pedagogue at the Chair of Piano in The Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. Her discography consists of two albums. First CD includes her interpretation of works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Frederic Chopin, Franz Schubert and Sergiej Rachmaninov. Her second album - this time only with Fryderyk Chopin works, is recorded at the Witold Lutosławski Polish Radio Studio in Warsaw.

Ms Ficht-Maciejowska recorded music composed by Józef Rychlik for Witold Gombrowicz's play, "Trans-Atlantyk", performed at the J. Słowacki Theatre in Cracow, and in Łódź - with the Symphony Orchestra conducted by Zdzisław Szostak - Zbigniew Preisner's music for "The Decalogue", a film by Krzysztof Kieślowski.

She is also the author of publications on piano interpretation. Her book, Finale of Frederic Chopin’s Sonata B minor op. 35. Analysis and interpretation, issued by the Frederic Chopin Warsaw University of Music (2011), was highly rated in country and abroad.

She is the founder of the International Fryderyk Chopin Music Academy in Lahr/Germany/, which is being led by her since 2016.