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Andrzej Bauer is a winner of the first prize at the ARD International Competition in Munich, prizewinner at the Prague Spring International Competition and recipient of the prize awarded under the auspices of the European Parliament and the Council of Europe.
Artist was born in Łódź, where he completed his studies under Kazimierz Michalik’s guidance. He continued his musical education, working with André Navarra, Miloš Sadlo and Daniel Szafran during numerous masterclasses. He also completed a two-year course in London conducted by William Pleeth, thanks to a scholarship given by Witold Lutosławski.
Andrzej Bauer has given recitals in Amsterdam, Paris, Hamburg and Munich, and performed with symphony orchestras, including the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, RAI Naples Orchestra, Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra and Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra. He has appeared in concerts as a soloist with most Polish symphony and chamber orchestras, and has performed with ensembles like the National Philharmonic Orchestra and Sinfonia Varsovia, which invited him to join as a soloist on their European concert tours. Andrzej Bauer has recorded music for a number radio stations and television channels in Poland and the foreign countries. He has taken part in international festivals, performing in most European countries as well as the United States and Japan.
The artist’s recording with works by Schubert, Brahms and Schumann, under the Koch/Schwann label, won the German Record Critics’ Award. His subsequent CDs feature works by Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Messiaen, Panufnik and Lutosławski. 2000 saw the release of the first ever Polish recording (on two CDs) of all of Bach’s cello suites, recorded by Bauer for the CD Accord label, for which the artist won the Fryderyk Award of the Polish Academy of Phonography. The artist’s extensive repertoire features many pieces of contemporary and new music, including works composed especially for him. At the Warsaw Autumn Festival in 2002, Andrzej Bauer gave a recital of premiere pieces for cello solo and electronic media which he had inspired. The Cellotronicum project launched at this point has been continued by the artist ever since, resulting in new recordings and numerous premieres presented at major contemporary music venues in Europe. The second edition of the Cellotronicum project at the Warsaw Autumn in 2006 won him the Orpheus Prize.
Andrzej Bauer is a professor at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw and at the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz, where he is in charge of cello classes. In addition, he is the founder and artistic director of the Warsaw Cellonet Group. Recently he has devoted more of his time to the composition and improvisation.
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