EVELINA KLECZEK began playing piano at the age of five and currently studies with Dr. Martin Labazevitch in Washington, D.C. Evelina has won prizes at several piano competitions, including First Prize and Audience Award at the MostArts Young Pianist Competition (2025), Third Prize and Audience Award at the Thomas F. Hulbert International Piano Competition (2024), the Rosalyn Tureck Prize in the contemporary and Prelude and Fugue categories at the 7th Tureck International Bach Competition (2022), and First Prize and Szymanowski award at the Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Piano Competition for Young Pianists (Washington, D.C., 2020). Evelina also won the state and division levels of the 2025-2026 MTNA Senior Piano Competition. Besides exploring solo piano repertoire, Evelina was accepted into the National Symphony Orchestra Youth Fellowship Program for the 2024-2025 school year, which gave her the opportunity to immerse herself in chamber music. Her chamber music ensemble “Reinecke Trio”, won Third Prize at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition (2025), and Second Prize at the Misbin Family Memorial Chamber Music Competition (2025). In addition to her competition awards, Evelina is a 2026 National YoungArts Winner and has received the Chopin Foundation Scholarship for the past three years. 

Evelina has had solo performances in the United States, Poland, Hungary, Spain, and Puerto Rico and has performed with the MostArts Festival Orchestra in New York. She has also participated in lessons and masterclasses with such acclaimed pianists and pedagogues as Kirill Gerstein, Garrick Ohlsson, Kevin Kenner, Ewa Pobłocka, André Laplante, Krzysztof Jabłoński, Jeffrey Swann, Golda Vainberg-Tatz, Michael Lewin, and others.