As a youth, he studied piano with Olga Stolfowa, and later composition with Bernardino Rizzi at the W*adys*aw *ele*ski School of Music. He continued formal music studies at the Warsaw Conservatory, where his teachers included Zbigniew Drzewiecki (piano) and Kazimierz Sikorski (composition). He was awarded the International Chopin Piano Competition's 8th prize in 1937.
Zbigniew Drzewiecki
Kazimierz Sikorski