Pianist, chamber musician, teacher, he won the Fryderyk Award and the Orfeusz Prize “for outstanding performance of Polish music.” He was also nominated for Polityka weekly’s Passport Award “for the sensitivity and intelligence with which he approaches the repertoire forgotten on our stages.” His interests include both the newest music and the unknown music of Polish Romanticism. 

He has premiered many works of contemporary music, cooperating with ensembles such as the Apollon Musagète Quartet, Royal String Quartet, Hashtag Ensemble, Piotr Pławner, Joanna Freszel, Agata Zubel, and the Silesian Quartet. He focuses with particular interest on Karol Szymanowski; in 2018, he became vice-president of the board of the Karol Szymanowski Music Society in Zakopane, and has been its president since 2022. 

As a pianist, he has appeared notably with the Warsaw Philharmonic, NOSPR, Sinfonia Varsovia, Sinfonia Iuventus, AUKSO, Sinfonietta Cracovia, at national and international festivals including Warsaw Autumn, Beijing Modern Music Festival, Musica Polonica Nova, Budapest Spring, Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad, Musique et Neige, NOSPR First Performances Festival, and Usedomer Musikfestival. In 2022 he became the resident artist at the Polish Piano Festival in Słupsk. His extensive discography includes albums recorded for the DUX, CD Accord, Haenssler, CPO, and Naxos, which have repeatedly won awards at home and abroad: Maestro Pianiste, Pizzicato Supersonic, 5 de Diapason, La Clef Res Musica, four Fryderyk nominations, and a nomination for the 2020 International Classical Music Awards. Piotr Sałajczyk teaches piano at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, from which he graduated in Józef Stompel’s piano class. He completed his studies at the Mozarteum in Salzburg under Pavel Gililov. He was also a pianist at the Sommerakademie Salzburg.