One of the foremost pianists of his generation. He has performed with the world’s leading orchestras, such as the Philharmonia Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Hallé Orchestra and NHK Symphony of Tokyo, and with such eminent conductors as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Philippe Herreweghe, Neeme Järvi, Mark Elder, Paavo Järvi, Fabio Luisi, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Frans Brüggen.

In recent years, he has performed at such venues as the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, Wigmore Hall in London and BOZAR in Brussels, with the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra under Myung-Whun Chung and Lucerne Symphony Orchestra under Lawrence Foster. 

He has appeared at such prestigious festivals as the Salzburger Festspiele, La Roque d’Anthéron, La Grange de Meslay, Edinburgh, Schleswig-Holstein, Verbier and the BBC Proms. He is also a regular guest of Chopin and his Europe. An excellent chamber musician, he has performed alongside such artists as Martha Argerich (in repertoire for two pianos), Janine Jansen, Steven Isserlis and Gary Hoffman, and he recently performed in Switzerland with Sol Gabetta and Renaud Capuçon. He works closely with the Mozarteum Argentino in Buenos Aires.

For many years, he has been associated with the Fryderyk Chopin Institute, at the invitation of which he performs in concert and records. His interpretation of Chopin’s ballades and nocturnes on Pleyel and Erard pianos from 1848 and 1849, released by the Institute, and his disc with concertos by Ignacy Jan Paderewski and Giuseppe Martucci received a Diapason d’Or award. Also highly acclaimed were his albums of works for piano and orchestra recorded with the Orchestra of the 18th Century and Frans Brüggen (released in the Institute’s ‘The Real Chopin’ series) and a disc featuring Józef Krogulski’s Piano Octet and Józef Nowakowski’s Piano Quintet – performed with great success by Goerner and a group of young Polish musicians at the festival Progetto Martha Argerich in Lugano. In June 2019 his latest disc was released by the Chopin Institute, featuring Paderewski’s Variations and Fugue in E flat minor on an original theme.

Goerner is one of the leading pianist-ambassadors of Polish musical culture; in 2018 he was honoured by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage with the ‘Gloria Artis’ gold medal for services to culture. He has made numerous recordings for Alpha Classics, and his discography features works by Chopin, Beethoven, Debussy, Schumann, Rachmaninov, Liszt and Busoni, including a Debussy album that won Diapason d’Or of the Year 2013, a Schumann disc that was BBC Music magazine’s ‘Choice of the Month’ (2015) and a recording of Chopin’s preludes awarded a Choc de Classica and Diapason d’Or. Particularly acclaimed by the critics was his recording of Beethoven’s ‘Hammerklavier’ Sonata, Op. 106.

Goerner was born in San Pedro, Argentina, in 1969. He studied in his homeland with Jorge Garrubba, Juan Carlos Arabián and Carmen Scalcione. Following his victory in the Liszt Competition in Buenos Aires in 1986, he honed his skills at the Geneva Conservatory with Maria Tipo. In 1990 he won the Geneva International Music Competition. He now lives in Switzerland with his wife and son. He teaches at Geneva University of Music and the Barenboim-Said Akademie in Berlin. He actively supports the work of the humanitarian organisation Ammala.