

He was the award-winning Rector’s scholarship for the best students. In 2019, Holder of a prestigious scholarship’s granted by the „Grazella” foundation Anna Maria Siemieńska and „My Polish Heart” foundation for music achievments. In 2018 he graduated with the highest distinction from Academy of Music in Cracow in the piano class of dr Piotr Wylezol. In 2011 he graduated Cracow School of Jazz in the piano class of Piotr Kalicki. He studied in the Zygmunt Noskowski State Primary School of Music in Krzeszowice under the supervision of Professors Jerzy Suruło and Izabela Kochańska. Artist is associated with a small village of Paczółtowice, Poland, where he made his first musical steps on accordion with the folk band ” Paczółtowianka “. He started playing piano and accordion at the age of five.

He was born and raised in Cracow, Poland.

One of the most interesting and talented jazz pianists of his generation. In his music lies the spirit of Impressionism, late Romanticism. Mateusz Pałka (1993) is a Polish pianist, improviser, composer.
