Lidia Grychtołówna

Lidia Grychtołówna (born 1928 in Rybnik) is a Polish pianist.

In 1955 she was awarded the V International Chopin Piano Competition's seventh prize,^[1] and one year later she shared the third prize of the inaugural edition of the Robert Schumann Competition with Mikhail Voskresensky.^[2] She subsequently performed throughout the world, and held a professorship at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. She served as a juror at the Chopin Competition's X, XI and XIII editions.^[3]

Grychtołówna has been decorated the Gold Medal of the City of Milan.