JAKUB JAKOWICZ (F. Chopini nimeline Varssavi Muusikaülikool, Poola)
11. novembril kell 10.00-14.00 D-210

Jakub Jakowicz learned violin with his father, Krzysztof, by whom he studied at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. He was also the last pupil of Tadeusz Wroński. He has appeared with many renowned orchestras, including the Warsaw Philharmonic, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Concerto Köln and Munich Philharmonic. He has worked with such conductors as Antoni Wit, Jacek Kaspszyk, Kazimierz Kord, Jan Krenz, Eiji Ōue, Agnieszka Duczmal and Marc Minkowski. As a chamber musician, he has performed with Heinz Holliger, Paul Gulda, Anna Maria Staśkiewicz, Katarzyna Budnik, Ryszard Groblewski, Avri Levitan, Daniel Möller- Schott, Andrzej Bauer, Marcin Zdunik and Paavali Jumppanen. He is a member of the Zehetmair Quartett, with which he recorded a Bartók and Hindemith disc awarded a Diapason d’Or (ECM). He has also recorded for ECM, Naxos, CD Accord, Dux. He has performed at the Berlin Philharmonic, Wigmore Hall in London, Suntory Hall in Tokyo and Konzerthaus in Vienna, and also at festivals in Salzburg,  Lucerne and Lugano. Jakowicz has won violin competitions in Lublin, Wattrelos, France and Takasaki (Japan), as well as an ‘Orpheus’ from the ‘Warsaw Autumn’. Since 2004, he has taught at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw.