Oficjalna strona artysty Piotr Igor Motyka, accordion
Piotr was born in 2000 in Radom. Since September 2019 he has been a student of the Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien in the accordion class led by Professor Grzegorz Stopa. At this university, in 2020 he also took up education in the field of pedagogy.
He released his debut album in 2014. Piotr is an award-winning and appreciated artist, not only in Poland, but also on the musical stages of Europe. He is a six-time Grand Prix winner and winner of over forty first prizes. In November this year he will take part in the premiere of the prestigious concert entitled KUNSTHISTORISCHES MUSEUM WIEDEŃ Wien Modern - Georg Friedrich Haas: Ceremony II (2020, UA). The sounds of his accordion were heard in many corners of the world. He gave concerts, among other things, in the: Australia, Austria, Czech Republic, Russia, Croatia, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Lithuania and Slovakia.
From an early age, he developed musically in the Oskar Kolberg Music School Complex in Radom under the guidance of his teacher Artur Miedziński (2007-2019). Piotr's artistic path was made more attractive by his rich scholarship activity (domestic and foreign): a scholarship from the National Children's Fund (2014-2018; at the invitation of KFnrD, the musician performed several times, among others. At the invitation of KFnRD, the musician has performed several times, e.g. at the Castle in Warsaw); the Young Poland Scholarship awarded on behalf of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage (2015); the prestigious Arosa Kultur Music Scholarship in Switzerland (2016) - in 2017, during the international Arosa Festival, Piotr performed the BWV 1052 J. S. Bach concert in D minor with the German Georgische Kammerorchester Ingolstadt under the baton of Lars Mlekusch; and the Prime Minister's Scholarship (2017-2019).
As a soloist, he presented himself at the Embassy of the Republic of Poland and the Alexander Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, among others. The year 2018 turned out to be special in Piotr's artistic career: he became a finalist of the Young Musician of the Year competition, during which he performed solo and with the Polish Radio Orchestra conducted by Michał Klauza. During this period, at the special invitation of representatives of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, he also went on a musical journey to Moscow. There, during the Russian-Polish festival, he gave concerts with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra "Viva Musica" under the direction of Leonid Kazakov.