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. <sep>, Pronoun: He <sep>, A: Zbigniew Drzewiecki <sep>, B: Kazimierz Sikorski