Kamil Pacholec first captured international attention by earning recognition at distinguished piano competitions, most notably as a finalist of the 18th International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, where he received an Honorable Mention at the age of 22. Two years earlier, he won Second Prize at the XI Paderewski International Piano Competition. He has also secured top prizes at the Livorno International Piano Competition in Italy (2018), the 47th Polish National Chopin Piano Competition (2016), and the César Franck International Piano Competition in Belgium (2015). In 2018, he was awarded the Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Prize at the Klavierakademie Eppan in Italy.   

His competition successes led to concert engagements across Europe, Japan, Brazil, and the United States. He has appeared as a soloist in prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall (Zankel Hall) and Kaufman Music Center (Merkin Hall) in New York, the Berliner Philharmonie (Kammermusiksaal), the National Philharmonic Concert Hall in Warsaw, the National Philharmonic of Ukraine in Kyiv, Salle Cortot in Paris, Teatro São Pedro in São Paulo, Gusman Concert Hall in Miami, Nagano City Arts Center in Japan, Teatro Goldoni in Livorno, and the Lutosławski Polish Radio Concert Hall in Warsaw, among others.

His performances have been praised by critics. The Gramophone described his playing as “elegantly confident” and noted that “many established pianists would be happy to claim Pacholec’s effortless fingerwork and idiomatic flair for themselves.” South Florida Classical Review highlighted his “strong technique and interpretive skills,” while Australian critic Michael Moran hailed him as “a major young Polish pianistic talent,” calling his performance “an outstanding recital which will take him far….”  

Pacholec has been featured at leading piano festivals, including the International “Chopin and His Europe” Festival in Warsaw, the Frost Chopin Festival and the “Chopin for All” concert series of the Chopin Foundation of the United States in Miami, the International Chopin Festival in Valldemossa (Spain), the Nohant Chopin Festival and “Chopin à Paris” (France), the Chopin Festival in Omotesandō (Tokyo, Japan), the International Chopin Festival in Duszniki-Zdrój (Poland), and the International Rubinstein Piano Festival in Łódź (Poland).  

He currently resides in the United States, where he studies with Kevin Kenner at the Frost School of Music in Miami. His former teachers include Ewa Pobłocka, Wojciech Świtała, and Małgorzata Kowalska.