Paleczny studied at the Warsaw Music Academy under Jan Ekiera. He won prizes at competitions in in Sofia in 1968, in Munich in 1969, in Warwaw in 1970, in Pleven in 1971, in Bordeaux in 1972 and he took 3rd place at the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in 1970.
Paleczny, now a professor at the Chopin Music Academy in Warsaw, has directed the International Chopin Festival of Duszniki-Zdroj, Poland?s longest-running music festival, since 1993.
The concert programme:
Fryderyk Chopin - Ballade No 2 in F major, Op 38
Robert Schumann ? Symphonic Studies
Fryderyk Chopin - Fantaisie in F minor, Op 49
Fryderyk Chopin - Scherzo No 2 in B-flat minor, Op 31
Fryderyk Chopin - Nocturne in F-sharp minor
Fryderyk Chopin - Polonaise in A-flat major ?Heroic?
Concert venues:
Liszt Hall, Debrecen University Department of Music (2 Egyetem Square, Debrecen) ? 7pm, 24 September 2010
Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) Assembly Hall (9 Roosevelt Square, Budapest) ? 7pm, 26 September 2010