Barbara Hesse-Bukowska

Barbara Hesse-Bukowska (born in Łódź, February 8 1930) is a Polish pianist. She gratuated in Warsaw's State Higher School of Music on June 1949, and took part few months later at the first postwar edition of the Chopin competition, winning the 2nd prize. Four years later she went to Paris, where she perfected her playing under Artur Rubinstein before undertaking an intense intercontinental concert career she would combine with teaching at Wroclaw's Higher School of Music since 1963. One year before she was awarded the Harriet Cohen Foundation's Piano Medal.

Since 1973 she's a professor at the Fryderyk Chopin Music Academy.