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Violin

Kamil Zawadzki

Doctor of Musical Arts. He graduated with distinction from the G. and K. Bacewicz Academy of Music in Łódź in the class of prof. Iwona Wojciechowska (2009).

He started learning to play the violin at the age of seven; he worked under the supervision of professors: Zenon Ostalczyk, Jolanta Sira-Osmolińska, Tomasz Bartosiak, Iwona Wojciechowska, Wolfgang Marschner, Konstanty Andrzej Kulka, Edward Zienkowski, Monika Urbaniak-Lisik, Igor Frołowo, Larissa Kolos, Mirosław Ławrynowicz, Wiesław Kwaśny, Walentyna Jakubowska.

Participant and winner of national and international competitions: 2nd and 3rd National Competition for the Best Recital in Żagań – winner of the highest scholarship awarded (2010, 2011), International Violin Competition in Sion conducted by maestro Shlomo Mintz (Switzerland 2009), Winner of the Program of the Minister of Culture and Heritage National “Young Poland” (2009), 2nd prize in the Solo Sonata Competition (Łódź 2008), International Baltic Violin Competition – 4th prize – distinction (2006), National Violin Competition. Irena Dubiska – 2nd prize (the first prize was not awarded) and the prize for the greatest artistic individuality (Łódź 2003), National Competition for Young Instrumentalists in Bydgoszcz – 1st prize and a special prize for prof. Krzysztof Sperski (2003). In 2003, during the Master and Disciple concert, he performed with Konstanty A. Kulka at the Old Town Hall in Gdańsk.

In the years 2010-2018, he was employed as an assistant at the G. and K. Bacewicz Academy in Łódź. In 2011/2012, he received a scholarship from the Academy for the best doctoral students, and was also a member of the university senate. In 2012, he inaugurated the festival with the Zielona Góra Philharmonic Orchestra. T. Wroński Masters of Polish Violinism, with which he then performed four times in subsequent artistic seasons. He has completed numerous foreign tours in Germany, France and Switzerland. He also performed in China, where he gave over 17 solo concerts with the Vienna Royal Artists orchestra. Lecturer at the International Music Courses in Żagań, the Summer Academy of Music in Łódź and the Youth Academy of Music in Łódź.

Member of the Management Board of the Association of Polish Artists and Musicians in Warsaw since 2017. As a representative of the Association, he sits on competition committees for the positions of directors of Polish philharmonic halls, opera theaters and other cultural institutions.

In 2023, in Warsaw, he became a Knight of the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Saint Stanislaus and received the decoration of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage “Merit for Polish Culture”.