Graduate of Professor Józef Stompel's piano class at the Academy of Music in Katowice. In the years 1991-1996 he perfected his piano skills under supervision of Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, André Dumortier and Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden. He is a laureat of International Piano Competitions in Paris (Marguerite Long and Jacques Thibaud Piano Competition - II Grand Prix) and Montreal. He was the best Polish contestant of the 12th International F. Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, where he was granted the prize for the best performance of Polonaise and a number of non-statutory prizes.

Soloist and chamber musician, he has performed in various venues across Europe, North and South America. He has collaborated with most Polish symphony orchestras, the Aukso Orchestra, the Silesian Quartet, the Camerata Quartet, Royal String Quartet, as well as violinists Szymon Krzeszowiec, Piotr Pławner, and soprano Ewa Iżykowska. He has made about a dozen of recordings for such labels as Polskie Nagrania, Bearton, DUX, Sony Music Polska, IMC and Chandos, featuring works of Bacewicz, Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, Liszt, Schumann, Szymanowski and Zarębski. For the Fryderyk Chopin Institute recorded two albums on period instruments (Pleyel 1848 and Erard 1849). In the years 2000 and 2005, his albums were awarded the Grand Prix du Disque Frédéric Chopin. In 2002, 2009 and 2019 - he was honored with the "Fryderyk" award.

Since 1998 he has been engaged in teaching. He is a professor in the Piano Department at the K. Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. In the years 2008-2012 he was additionally vice-rector for the science and didactics, and in the years 2012-2016 he was the head of the Piano Department at the University. In the years 2020-20023 he was also a professor at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. From 2024 he is also a guest professor at Showa University in Japan.

Juror of international piano competitions, including the M. Long and J. Thibaud Competition in Paris (2009), F. Chopin Competition in Warsaw (2015,2021,2025), V. Horowitz Competition in Kiev (2016, 2019), A. Rubinstein Competition in Beijing (2016), and I. J. Paderewski Competition in Bydgoszcz (2010, 2013), as well as many others (Australia, Bulgaria, Canada, France, Japan, Singapore, Italy, USA). He regularly conducts piano courses in Poland and abroad (Austria, Canada, China, Germany, Japan, , USA). He was the chairman of the jury of the 2nd International Chopin Competition on period instruments in Warsaw in 2023. Originator and the main organizer, (till 2017), of the International Piano Masterclasses in Katowice. In 2014, he was appointed to the Program Council of the National Fryderyk Chopin Institute. From December 2021, a member of the board of the Chopin Society in Warsaw.

Alexej Gorlatch is Professor of Piano at the Mannheim University of Music and Performing Arts. From 2016 to 2020, he held a professorship at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. He previously taught at the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts and at the Hannover University of Music, Drama and Media. He gives masterclasses in Europe, Asia and the USA and has been a jury member of international competitions.

He studied at the Berlin University of Arts with Martin Hughes and at the Hannover University of Music, Drama and Media with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling and Bernd Goetzke, where he graduated with the Konzertexamen.

His victory at the International ARD Music Competition, where Alexej Gorlatch received first prize, the audience prize and several further special awards, was preceded by a remarkable musical career – within just six years, he received first prize at nine renowned international piano competitions, including the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition 2006, Deutscher Musikwettbewerb 2008, International Anton G. Rubinstein-Competition 2009 and the Dublin International Piano Competition 2009, as well as being awarded the Silver Medal at the 2009 Leeds International Pianoforte Competition.

Alexej Gorlatch gave highly acclaimed performances at the world’s most prestigious concert venues, including Carnegie Hall in New York, Wigmore Hall in London, the Konzerthaus Berlin and the Great Hall of the Berliner Philharmonie, Salle Alfred Cortot in Paris, Vienna Konzerthaus, Salzburg Festspielhaus, Suntory Hall and Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall, the Herkulessaal and Philharmonie in Munich, the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, and the Saint Petersburg Philharmonia. He has been invited to perform at the Festival International de Piano “La Roque d’Anthéron”, Lucerne Festival, Ruhr Piano Festival, Rheingau Musik Festival, Yokohama International Piano Festival, the Schwetzinger Festspiele, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Wexford Opera Festival in Ireland, and the Harrogate International Festival in the UK among others. He went on concert tours in Germany, Japan, South Korea, Italy, South Africa, Ireland, and the USA.

As soloist Alexej Gorlatch appeared with numerous orchestras, such as the Hallé Manchester, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Stuttgart Radio Symphony, Camerata Salzburg, RTÉ National Symphony Ireland, leading orchestras of Japan – NHK, Japan Philharmonic, Tokyo Symphony, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony, and Nagoya Philharmonic – Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique de Québec, NDR Symphony, Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin, Korean Symphony, Malmö Symphony, Orchestre National de Belgique, and the Johannesburg Philharmonic.

For his latest CD on Sony Classical Alexej Gorlatch recorded works for piano and orchestra by Igor Stravinsky with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin conducted by Alondra de la Parra. This CD, as well as the recordings he made on OehmsClassics, BR Klassik, Genuin and RAM, and the releases of his live performances on the Edition Ruhr Piano Festival and the BR Klassik labels have been greeted with great acclaim.

The concert activity of the italian pianist Andrea Turini covers forty years of public performances, focusing with particular passion on the works of major composers including Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Listz, Chopin, Brahms, Debussy, Ravel, Fauré. Thanks to his extraordinary interpretations and achievements in important international piano competitions, Andrea Turini carries out an intense concert activity in prestigious concert halls around the world such as Carnegie Hall in New York, Salle "A. Cortot" in Paris, Rai Auditorium in Rome, National Auditorium of Madrid, Teatro Municipal "Rosalia de Castro" of La Coruna, Teatro Donizetti of Bergamo, Teatro Ghione of Rome, Teatro Verdi of Trieste, Auditorium de Galicia of Santiago de Compostela, Teatro Bibiena of Mantua.

He is constantly invited to prestigious international piano festivals in Italy, Spain, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, North Macedonia, Poland, Switzerland, Austria, Israel and the United States. Active as a chamber musician, he is a member of the Agorà Piano Quartet and works with renowned soloists and first chairs of prestigious orchestras. His prolonged experience with the famous String Trio of Florence is important and his activity as a piano duo is extensive, which he shared first with Gianluca Passerotti and later with Maria Grazia Petrali.

Andrea Turini also regularly performs as a soloist with orchestras, collaborating, among others, with the Orchestra Musici Aurei, Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina, Orchestra Sinfonica di Sanremo, Orchestra Sinfonica Città di Grosseto, Orchestra OIDA, Orquestra de Câmara de Cascais and Oeiras, Talenti d'Arte Chamber Orchestra, Asolana Malipiero String Orchestra, Il Contrappunto Orchestra. His performances under the direction of L. Piovano, N. Lalov, M. Caldi, L. Alves, G. Lanzetta and G.B. Varoli are of particular importance.

He did television recordings for RAI Uno, RAI International, for Yugoslavian and North Macedonian television and radio, radio recordings for the three national RAI networks, for Vatican Radio, for Radio Nacional de Espana, he has recorded Bach, Brahms, Rachmaninoff and Ravel’s music on CD’s. Andrea Turini is a highly regarded and highly experienced passionate and dedicated teacher. There are many pianists who studied with him, as well as are many winners and prizewinners in national and international competitions who stand out for their concert and teaching activities.

Andrea Turini is professor of a piano chair at the "Gioacchino Rossini" Conservatory of Pesaro, where he is also coordinator of the Keyboard and Percussion Instruments Department and member of the Academic Council. He is regularly invited to teach masterclasses and interpretation courses in Italy, Spain, France, The Netherlands and Germany. He is often invited as a juror as well as a president in International Piano Competitions. He is the artistic director of the Valdarnese Music Academy and of the Humberto Quagliata International Piano Competition Città di San Giovanni Valdarno.

The German pianist and music manager Florian Koltun studied at university of music in Cologne and at the University of Music Trossingen by Prof. Ilja Scheps and Tomislav Baynov. He had Masterclasses also with prestigious teachers like B. L. Gelber or G. Rosenberg. His active concert work started at the age of 14 when already calling attention to himself by winning several first prizes at the German competition Jugend musiziert as well as the national Bach Competition in Köthen.

He is first prize winner of several international piano competitions, like the piano competition in Caraglio / Italy, the international piano competition for young pianists in Luxembourg, the Henri Herman Concours in Maastricht / Netherland or the international piano competition “Notes in harmony” in Bettona / Italy.

Florian Koltun is regularly a welcome guest at diverse well-known concert places in Germany, Belgium, Netherland, Italy, France, Spain or China. He performed recitals in prestigious places such as the Alte Oper Frankfurt, Berliner Philharmonie, Thürmer-Saal Bochum or Schloss Koethen.

He is artistic director diffrent concert series and festivals in Germany (Heinsberg, Aachen, Windeck, Geilenkirchen, Boltenhagen and Monschau) and gave several masterclasses at different music universities in China and Europe since 2012. From 2015 until 2017 he was teaching piano at the music university Cologne.

Xin Wang established herself in spite of her young age as one of the leading pianists of the inner Mongolia China. She came into public attention when she won a special prize at the national Piano Competition China with the age of seven and has since gone on to give piano concerts an recitals in concert halls all over China. She studied with Jolio Largacha and Gabriel Rosenberg in Cologne and Nurnberg. During her study she got a scholarship of the DAAD. Xin Wang has won numerous honors and prizes including the piano competition Lengano Italy, the piano competition Bettona Italy and many others.

She is regularly a welcome guest at diverse well-known concert places in Europa and Asia like Berliner Philharmonie, Schloss Elmau in Germany, Qintai Concert Hall in Wuhan, Concert Hall in Xiamen, Henan Art Center in Zhengzhou, Concert Hall in Ningbo, Poly Grand Theatre in Hohhot and many others. As a soloist Xin Wang appeared with many famous orchestras, among them Wuhan Philharmonic Orchestra, Sinfonieorchester Aachen, Sinfonia Rotterdam, Kammerphilharmonie St. Petersburg, Marchigiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Karlsbad Symphony Orchestra, Zagreb Soloists and Berliner Camerata under the baton of famous conductors like Kazem Abdullah, Christopher Ward, Conrad van Alphen, Marek Štilec, James P. Liu, Juri Gilbo, Eduardo Strausser and Fuad Ibrahimov. She is a regular guest at international festivals such as Skrjabin Piano Festival Grosseto Italy, Piano Festival „federi musica“ Neapel Italy, International Piano Festival Salerno Italy, „IBLA Claasic“ Sicilia Italy, Piano Festival Orbetello Italy, „Friday Nights with Yury Revich“ Wien Austria, International Art Festival Kotor Montenegro, International Music Festival Deià Spain, Festival „Palau March Museu“ Palma Spain, „Festival de musique classique a Pompignan“ Toulouse France, Palais Sommer Dresden Germany, „Monschau Klassik“ Germany, „International Piano Festival Wuhan" China and many others. As a passionate chamber musician she regularly works with colleagues like Echo-Klassik prize winner Yury Revich or Alexandre Debrus in China and Europe.

Xin Wang is founder and artist director of the international piano festival in Geilenkirchen Germany and jury president of the international piano competition "Euregio Piano Award". She is often inivited as a jury member in many international piano competitions such as Campillos Spain, „Isidor Bajic Piano Memorial Competition“ Novi Saad Serbia, „Neue Sterne“ Wernigerode Germany, „Mauro Paolo Monopoli Prize“ Barletta Italy, „Notes in Harmony“ Bettona Italy, „Academy Award“ Rom Italy, Asian Youth international piano Competition Hongkong, and many others.

Since 2012 she teaches as a guest professor at different music universities in China and gave several master classes in China and Germany with prestigious teachers from well known music universities in Europe.

More jury members will be published soon.