Barbara Hesse-Bukowska

Barbara Stella Hesse-Bukowska (8 February 1930 – 9 December 2013) was a Polish pianist.

Her family had a long-standing musical history, as her father was a violinist and conductor, her mother was a pianist and teacher, and her grandfather was a piano tuner.

Her subsequent teachers included Czesław Aniołkiewicz and, at the Warsaw Conservatory, Maria Glińska-Wąsowska.

In the same year, she took part in the first postwar edition of the IV International Chopin Piano Competition, and won 2nd prize.

She subsequently undertook an intercontinental concert career, which she combined with teaching at Wroclaw's Higher School of Music.