Wojciech Świtała is a pianist and teacher laureat of international piano competitions in Paris (Marguerite Long and Jacques Thibaud Piano Competition) and Montreal. He was the best Polish contestant of the 12th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 1990, where he was granted the prize for the best performance of Polonaise and a number of non-statutory prizes.

Soloist and chamber musician, he has performed in various venues across Europe, North and South America. He has made about a dozen of recordings for such labels as Bearton, Chandos, DUX, Sony Music Poland and Chandos, featuring works of Bacewicz, Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, Liszt, Schumann, Szymanowski and Zarębski. In 2000 and 2005, his albums were awarded the Grand Prix du Disque Frédéric Chopin. In 2002, 2009 and 2019, he was honored with the Fryderyk Award.

He is professor in the piano department at the K. Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. From 2008 to 2012, he was additionally vice-rector for the science and didactics, and from 2012 to 2016 he was the head of the piano department at the Academy. Currently, he is also a professor at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw.

Świtała has been juror of many international piano competitions, including the M. Long and J. Thibaud Competition in Paris (2009), F. Chopin Competition in Warsaw (2015 and 2021), V. Horowitz Competition in Kiev (2016 and 2019), A. Rubinstein Competition in Beijing (2016), and I. J. Paderewski Competition in Bydgoszcz (2010 and 2013). He regularly conducts piano courses in Poland and abroad. In 2014, he was appointed to the program council of the National Frederic Chopin Institute. From December 2021, he is a member of the board of the Frederic Chopin Society in Warsaw.