Konrad Binienda Bio
Pianist and composer Dr. Konrad Binienda is a graduate of the DMA program at the Cleveland
Institute of Music studying with renown pianist Haeson Paik. Since his debut with The
Cleveland Orchestra in 2007, Polish-American pianist Konrad Binienda has performed in recital
and with orchestras throughout the United States and Europe, winning acclaim for his highly
individual and probingly musical performances.
Dr. Binienda is a recipient of the 2011 Hastings Prize for Musical Performance at Harvard
University and a laureate of the 2010 Chopin Piano Competition sponsored by the Kosciuszko
Foundation in New York, as well as the winner of the first prize of the 25th International Chopin
Competition hosted by the Fryderyk Chopin Society of Texas in 2017. He received his Master of
Music degree in Piano Performance from the New England Conservatory as a student of Wha-
Kyung Byun. He has studied with Sergei Babayan and Gerardo Teissonnière at the Cleveland
Institute of Music, and with Phillipe Giusiano, Wojciech Switala and Viktor Mierzhanov in
Europe.
Mr. Binienda is the winner of the 2010 Peabody Mason International Piano Competition, the 2008 Mozart
Society Orchestra's Concerto Competition at Harvard University and is also an accomplished composer. In May 2011 he performed his own piano concerto in E minor with the Pforzheimer House Orchestra at Harvard University. In December of 2006, he performed the first movement of this Piano Concerto with the Akron Symphony Orchestra. His composition "Mazurka" for piano, bass, violin, and guitar, won the second prize of the second Carl E. Baldassarre composer-performer competition as well as the audience award. In the upcoming 2017-2018 season, Dr. Binienda will be performing in concerts in Poland, Texas, Cleveland as well as a Carnegie Hall recital which was awarded to him for winning 5th International Chopin Competition hosted by the Fryderyk Chopin Society of Texas in 2017. As a result of his victory in this competition, he will also be recording his first professional CD of music of Fryderyk Chopin.