Biography

Julian Stanny is a Polish pianist and chamber musician born in Nowy Sącz. He has been involved in music from an early age, developing his artistic skills under the guidance of distinguished pianists and pedagogues, including Prof. Pavel Gililov, Prof. Bradley Bolen, Prof. Lech Napierała, Prof. Mirosław Herbowski, Prof. Milena Kędra, Prof. Zbigniew Raubo, and Prof. Zofia Antes. In 2025, he graduated from the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Kraków, where he studied piano in the class of Prof. Mariola Cieniawa-Puchała.
Since 2025, he has been a participant in the Young Talents Training Programme at the Opera Academy of the Grand Theatre – Polish National Opera in Warsaw, where he continues to develop his artistic and chamber music experience in collaboration with leading performers and coaches.

He has performed in distinguished concert venues including the Podkarpacka Philharmonic Hall, the Fryderyk Chopin Museum in Warsaw, the Karol Szymanowski Museum at Atma in Zakopane, the Krzysztof Penderecki European Centre for Music in Lusławice, and the Paderewski Centre in Kąśna Dolna.

He has participated in numerous music festivals and academic sessions, including the Wawel at Dusk Summer Music Festival, the International Conference Women Composers of Piano Music, the Musical Małopolska – Song Festival, and the International Piano Duo Festival Duettissimo. In 2022 and 2025, he was selected to take part in the Young Talents at the Fryderyk Chopin Museum programme.

Reviews

„From the very beginning of our collaboration, I have been deeply impressed by the refinement and sensitivity of his musical interpretations, supported by a fully professional pianistic technique. I would also like to emphasize that this young pianist demonstrates remarkable artistic maturity and ambition, both in his artistic vision and in shaping his future musical development.”
prof. dr hab. Zbigniew Raubo

“Julian Stanny’s pianistic technique has reached a level that enables him to undertake the most demanding solo repertoire. His playing is distinguished by emotional intensity, strong temperament, and a rich palette of sound colours.”
prof. dr hab. Mariola Cieniawa-Puchała

3rd International Competition of Polish Music, Podkarpacka Philharmonic
fot. Filip Błażejowski.

„I know Mr Stanny as a highly successful participant of a recent masterclass of mine at Music Academy in Krakow, Poland, where I had the pleasure of working intensely with him. He showed great artistic potential and progress during the lesson, and working with him was very fruitful and inspirational. That is why he left a very positive impression to me. Before that I heard him in my function as jury member during the 3rd International Competition of Polish Music in Rzeszów, where he took my attention as one of the most promising and talented candidates.”
prof. Tobias Koch

„Listeners have highlighted the thoughtfully shaped musical dramaturgy and narrative present in this pianist’s interpretations, as well as the beauty of sound he creates at the instrument. Particular appreciation was expressed for Julian Stanny’s deeply moving performances of works by Frédéric Chopin — the ‘poet of the piano’ — and Karol Szymanowski, regarded as a modernist master of musical colour.”
prof. dr hab. Małgorzata Janicka-Słysz

3rd International Competition of Polish Music, Podkarpacka Philharmonic
fot. Wojciech Grzędziński

Awards

Julian Stanny is a laureate of numerous national and international piano and chamber music competition.
His major awards include:
Semi-finalist of the 3rd International Polish Music Competition, Rzeszów (2023)
Third Prize at the 9th International Chamber Music Tournament, Bydgoszcz (2022)
Second Prize at the 4th International Moscow Music Competition (2021)
Fourth Prize at the 12th Chopin International Piano Competition, Hartford, CT – Special Online Edition (2021)
First Prize at the International Competition of Piano Ensembles, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan (2021)
Third Prize at the International Music Award – Franz Schubert Konservatorium Wien (2021)
Distinction at the 1st International Chamber Music Competition KraCamera (2021)
First Prize at the 6th Tokyo International Music Competition (2022)
First Prize at the 2nd International Music Competition “Silk Way” (2022)
Third Prize at the London Classical Music Competition (2022)
Grand Prix at the International Piano Duo Competition-Festival, Kazakhstan (2022)
Second Prize at the 19th Juliusz Zarębski International Piano Competition (2019)
Second Prize at the International Chopin Competition in Vienna (2018)
First Prize at the 14th Luigi Zanucoli International Competition for Young Instrumentalists (2016)
He has also participated in prestigious competitions including the 5th Halina Czerny-Stefańska International Piano Competition in Poznań (2022) and the 22nd Kiejstut Bacewicz International Chamber Music Competition in Łódź (2025).

Selected Performances