Performers
Andrzej Bauer
A versatile cellist moving with ease in both classical and improvised music. He completed his studies with Kazimierz Michalik at the Academy (now G. and K. Bacewicz University) of Music in Łódź. He obtained a Witold Lutosławski scholarship to study with William Pleeth in London.
He has given recitals and appeared as a soloist with major symphony and chamber orchestras throughout Europe, in the United States, and Japan. His albums have won numerous record awards, including the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik. 2000 saw the release of the first Polish recording of Johann Sebastian Bach’s complete cello suites (CD Accord, 2CDs), which earned Bauer the Fryderyk Award of the Polish Phonographic Academy.
Bauer’s repertoire comprises a vast array of most recent music, including many pieces specially composed for him. A Warsaw Autumn festival version of his Cellotronicum recital series for cello and multimedia won him the ‘Orpheus’ award of SPAM Association for Polish Music Artists (2006). His Polish Radio concert cycle ‘Trans-Fusion’ (2012–2015) combined many performance and improvisation styles with computer technology. Bauer is the founder of the Warsaw Cellonet Group as well as the founder and artistic director of Chain Ensemble.
The artist teaches cello classes at Warsaw’s Chopin University of Music and the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz.
He has given recitals and appeared as a soloist with major symphony and chamber orchestras throughout Europe, in the United States, and Japan. His albums have won numerous record awards, including the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik. 2000 saw the release of the first Polish recording of Johann Sebastian Bach’s complete cello suites (CD Accord, 2CDs), which earned Bauer the Fryderyk Award of the Polish Phonographic Academy.
Bauer’s repertoire comprises a vast array of most recent music, including many pieces specially composed for him. A Warsaw Autumn festival version of his Cellotronicum recital series for cello and multimedia won him the ‘Orpheus’ award of SPAM Association for Polish Music Artists (2006). His Polish Radio concert cycle ‘Trans-Fusion’ (2012–2015) combined many performance and improvisation styles with computer technology. Bauer is the founder of the Warsaw Cellonet Group as well as the founder and artistic director of Chain Ensemble.
The artist teaches cello classes at Warsaw’s Chopin University of Music and the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz.
