Andrzej Bauer
cello

He is the winner of First Prize at the International ARD Competition in Munich. His honours also include a prize at the International ‘Prague Spring’ Competition, as well as the awards of the European Parliament and the Council of Europe. Born in Łódź, he studied the cello with Kazimierz Michalik at the city’s Music Academy and then perfected his skills at master courses held by André Navarra, Miloš Sadlo and Daniel Szafran. Thanks to a Witold Lutosławski grant, he studied for two years in London under the guidance of Professor William Pleeth.
 

He has developed a fine career, with recitals in Amsterdam, Paris, Hamburg and Munich, as well as concert appearances with the Munich Philharmonic, the RAI Orchestra of Naples, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Strasbourg and the radio orchestras in Stuttgart and Berlin. He performs regularly with Poland’s leading symphony and chamber orchestras. He has appeared as a soloist on several European tours with the Warsaw Philharmonic and Sinfonia Varsovia

Andrzej Bauer has made recordings for numerous radio and television stations in Poland and abroad and has taken part in many prestigious festivals. Foreign tours have taken him to most European countries, the United States and Japan. His CD featuring works by Schubert, Brahms and Schumann (Koch-Schwann) won an award from German critics. His discography also includes works by Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Messiaen, Panufnik, as well as Lutosławski’s Cello Concerto. A two-CD set with all of Bach’s Cello Sonatas released on the CD Accord label won Andrzej Bauer the prestigious Fryderyk Award of the Polish recording industry (2000).
Andrzej Bauer has a broad and diverse repertoire, comprising contemporary music and works by living composers, including those written specially for him. During the ‘Warsaw Autumn’ Festival in 2002 he gave a recital of first performances of works for cello and electronic media written out of his inspiration. It marked the beginning of the Cellotronicum Project aimed at the creation of a repertoire for cello and electronics, which has been continued in various new music centres in Europe. Its successive stage, presented at the 2006 Warsaw Autumn Festival, won Andrzej Bauer the ‘Orpheus Prize’. He is also the founder and artistic adviser of the Warsaw Cellonet Group.
He has also developed a teaching career, as a member of faculty of the Fryderyk Chopin Music University in Warsaw and of the Feliks Nowowiejski Music Academy in Bydgoszcz.

In recent years he devotes more and more time to composition and improvisation.