Michal Cwizewicz - Biography
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SHORT BIOGRAPHY
Michał Ćwiżewicz
has given concerts across Europe, in the Middle-East and the USA and
his playing has been broadcast on BBC television, live on BBC Radio
3’s ‘In Tune’ and Polish national television.
He performs frequently with the Minerva Piano Trio, is
concertmaster of the Górecki Chamber Orchestra, directs the Ognisko
Ensemble resident at the Polish Hearth in Exhibition Road and gives
frequent recitals with Filip Ćwiżewicz in their violin duo Cwizewicz
Brothers. A former student of the Royal College of Music, Guildhall
School of Music and Drama and members of the Alban Berg, Arpeggione
and Ysaÿe quartets, he holds postgraduate degrees from the RCM and
Imperial College and teaches at the Royal College of Music.
Michał performs on a 1731 Niccola Gagliano violin kindly on
loan from a private collection.
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CONCERT BIOGRAPHY
Michał Ćwiżewicz
has given concerts across Europe, in the Middle-East and the USA and
his playing has been broadcast on BBC television, live on BBC Radio
3’s ‘In Tune’ and Polish national television.
He performs frequently with the Minerva Piano Trio, is
concertmaster of the Górecki Chamber Orchestra, directs the Ognisko
Ensemble resident at the Polish Hearth in Exhibition Road and gives
frequent recitals with Filip Ćwiżewicz in their violin duo Cwizewicz
Brothers. Teaching violin for many years, in 2012 he joined the
violin faculty of the Royal College of Music.
Michał studied at the Royal College of Music, Guildhall School of
Music and Drama, the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofia in
Madrid, and with celebrated musicians Itzhak Rashkovsky, Krzysztof
Śmietana and members of the Alban Berg, Arpeggione and Ysaÿe
quartets. Before completing his postgraduate studies in music he
read Aeronautics, receiving Masters in Engineering from Imperial
College in 2007.
Michał grew up around Arabic music, the Javanese Gamelan, which he
played throughout his youth, and the fiery and angular folk music of
Eastern Europe – which he went on to study under legendary
folk-violinists of the Tatra Mountains, Eugeniusz Wilczek and
Władysław Trebunia-Tutka, leading to many recent collaborations:
drawing on Polish Highlanders’ folk tunes and Szymanowski’s
ballet The Brigands,
Michał’s new work for two violins
Tatra Melodies was
premiered in Warsaw together with ballet. He has also commissioned a
number of works from contemporary composers:
Delirium by Richard
Birchall; Quartets for Two
Violins and Balinese Gender Wayang by Nick Gray; and together
with his piano trio Scenes
from Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloe by David Knotts.
He was recently presented to Her Majesty the Queen at the Young
Artists Reception at Buckingham Palace.
Michał performs on a 1731 Niccola Gagliano violin kindly on
loan from a private collection.
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