Wojciech Świtała graduated from Jozef Stompel’s class at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. Between 1991 and 1996, he trained with Karl-Heinz Kammerling, Andre Dumortier and Jean-Claude Vanden-Eynden. He is a laureate of several international competitions, including the Marguerite Long and Jacques Thibaud Competition in Paris and the Montreal Piano Competition. At the 12th Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition (1990), he was awarded the polonaise prize and a number of non-statutory prizes. He has performed in most European countries, as well as in both Americas, Asia and Australia, as soloist and chamber musician. In collaboration with the Polskie Nagrania, BeArTon, DUX, Sony Music Poland, IMC and Chandos labels, he has made numerous recordings of music by Grażyna Bacewicz, Johannes Brahms, Ferenc Liszt, Robert Schumann, Cluade Debussy, Karol Szymanowski and Juliusz Zarębski, among others. His albums have received the Grand Prix du Disque Frederic Chopin (2000, 2005) and three ‘Fryderyk’ awards from the Polish record industry (2002, 2009, 2019). Released by the Fryderyk Chopin Institute was his recording of Chopin’s ballades, performed on historic instruments (Pleyel & Erard). Wojciech Świtała is an academic professor on the Piano Department of the Szymanowski Academy of Music and between 2020 and 2023 was a teacher at the Chopin University of Music. He has served on the juries of international piano competitions such as the Fryderyk Chopin (2015, 2021), Long/Thibaud in Paris (2009), Arthur Rubinstein in Beijing (2016), Valdimir Horowitz in Kyiv (2016, 2019) and Ignacy Jan Paderewski in Bydgoszcz (2010, 2013) and chaired the jury of the 2nd Chopin Competition on Period Instruments in Warsaw (2023). He has been a member of the Chopin Institute’s Programme Council since 2014, and he is also a member of the Fryderyk Chopin Society in Warsaw.