Artur Paciorkiewicz

Paciorkiewicz appeared as a soloist with the Białystok Philharmonic on 15 March 2002, in a programme that set Tadeusz Paciorkiewicz's Viola Concerto beside Paderewski's Polish Fantasy, played by Karol Radziwonowicz, and Brahms's Second Symphony. Born at Ursus near Warsaw in 1945, he studied violin with Irena Dubiska and viola with Stefan Kamasa at the Chopin Music Academy, where he later taught, and he plays the viola d'amore as well. He was a member of the Wilanów Quartet from 1970 to 1976, co-founded the Varsovia Quartet in 1976 and moved to Sinfonia Varsovia after that ensemble dissolved in 1989. He received a bronze medal at the international music competition in Geneva in 1972.