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Tomasz Strahl
Tomasz Strahl is the youngest Professor of Music in Poland. He
graduated in 1989 from the Chopin Music Academy in Warsaw, where he
studied cello with Kazimierz Michalik. Thanks to a grant from the
Austrian Government, he continued his studies with T. Kühne at the
Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna. He also
studied chamber music with the outstanding violinist Krzysztof
Jakowicz, his concert partner for many years.
He won First Prizes at several national and international
competitions including the Academic Cello Competition in Warsaw
(1987) and the 5th Nicanor Zabaleta International Music Competition
in San Sebastian (1991). In 1994 he received a grant from the
Polish-Japanese Foundation JESC.
He has performed with prominent conductors (Philippe Entremont,
Jerzy Maksymiuk, Wojciech Michniewski, Krzysztof Penderecki, Marek
Pijarowski, Tadeusz Strugała, Tomasz Bugaj, Henryk Czyż, Andrey
Boreyko, Marcin Nałęcz-Niesiołowski, Jose Maria Florencio, Czesław
Grabowski, Jerzy Kosek, Łukasz Borowicz, Paweł Przytocki, Zygmunt
Rychert, Jerzy Salwarowski, Jerzy Swoboda, Tadeusz Wojciechowski,
Sławek Adam Wróblewski) and leading orchestras (the National Polish
Radio SO, the Warsaw Philharmonic, the Polish Chamber Orchestra, the
Polish Radio SO, the Sofia Philharmonic, Sinfonietta Cracovia,
Concerto Avenna). He also works closely with many outstanding
soloists, the Wilanów Quartet, the Silesian Quartet, the Royal
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He has performed in
such prestigious venues as the Schauspielhaus in Berlin,
Brucknersaal in Linz, St. John's Smith Square in London, Art Center
in Tel Aviv, Toppan Hall in Tokyo, L'Auditorii in Barcelona and the
Warsaw Philharmonic Hall. Foreign tours have taken him to Japan,
Canada and Spain (with the Silesian Philharmonic). He performed
music (together with the pianist Krzysztof Jabłoński) to a ballet
Fortepianissimo (Warsaw’s Grand Theatre) and has been invited to
many festivals, including the Warsaw Autumn, Music in Old Kraków,
Bravo Maestro, the Festival in Guadix (Spain), ‘Chopin a Paris’, the
Cello Festival in Caracas, the Chopin Festivals in Duszniki-Zdrój
and Antonin, the Polish Piano Festival in Słupsk, the Organ Festival
in Kamień Pomorski, the Music Festival in Bydgoszcz and Warsaw Music
Encounters. A major highlight in Tomasz Strahl’s career was the
performance of Witold Lutosławski’s Cello Concerto in 1993, in the
composer’s presence. Strahl has to his credit the first performance
of Piotr Moss’s Cello Concerto No. 2 (with the National Polish Radio
SO, 2005) and the premiere recording of a recently discovered Cello
Concerto by Zygmunt Stojowski (with the National Polish Radio SO,
2006).
He is the founder (with the pianist Krzysztof Jabłoński) of the
Chopin Duo. He has made numerous recordings for Polish Radio and
Polish Television, CBC Radio in Canada, as well as on various labels
(Pony Canyon, CD Accord, Polish Radio Katowice, Pavane Records, Gema
Stereo, Pol-Music, Acte Préalable, Sony Classics). He received the
‘Fryderyk’ Prize of the Polish recording industry (2003), as well as
three nominations for this prize.
, Holland, Finland, Germany, Japan (Kyoto University of Arts) and
South America. He received the title of Professor in June 2001 and
the Golden Cross of Merit in 2002. In 2005 he gave a series of
lectures and concerts at the prestigious International Academy ‘Vienna-Prague-Budapest’.
He also also developed a successful teaching career. He is in charge
of cello classes at the Music Academies in Warsaw and Łódź. He also
gives masterclasses in Poland
Tomasz Strahl plays on a Leopold Widhalm cello (Nurnberg, 1778).
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