Tomasz Ritter – 1st Prize winner of the 1st International Chopin Competition on Period Instruments in Warsaw (2018) and the Musica Antiqua Competition in Brugge (2024). He was born in 1995 in Lublin (Poland). After graduating from the Szymanowski Complex of Music Schools in Warsaw in the piano class of I. Rumiancewa, Ritter became a student of the Moscow P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where he studied piano and fortepiano with A. Lubimov and harpsichord with M. Uspienskaya. During his studies, he was also a student of M. Voskresensky. He graduated with honors, receiving the title of "The Best Graduate of 2019". In 2021 he received a postgraduate diploma with distinction at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg in the class of H. Rutkowski (piano, period piano). Ritter was nominated for the "Polityka's Passports" award (an annual Polish cultural award presented by the weekly magazine “Polityka” since 1993) in the "Classical Music" category. He is also the winner of the Artis...