Winner of the 1st Prize at the ARD International Competition in Munich, prize-winner at the Prague Spring Competition, holder of the European Parliament and Council Award.
Andrzej Bauer was born in Łódź. He studied in his home town with Kazimierz Michalik, and took part in numerous masterclasses with André Navarra, Miloš Sadlo, and Daniel Shafran. He also completed a two-year course with William Pleeth in London, thanks to a scholarship funded by Witold Lutosławski.
In recent years Andrzej Bauer has given recitals in Amsterdam, Paris, Vienna, Hamburg, and Munich, and played with orchestras such as the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, RAI Orchestra in Naples, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Stuttgart Radio Orchestra, and Berlin Radio Symphony.
He regularly performs with most Polish symphony and chamber orchestras, and is invited by leading ensembles such as the Warsaw Philharmonic and Sinfonia Varsovia to perform as a soloist at their European concert tours.
Andrzej Bauer has recorded for many Polish and foreign radio and TV stations. He has participated in international festivals, performing in most European countries as well as in the USA and Japan. His recording of Schubert, Brahms and Schumann for Koch/Schwann was awarded the German Critics’ Prize. Successive CD releases include works by Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Messiaen, Panufnik, as well as Lutosławski’s Cello Concerto. His Polish premier recording of the complete Cello Suites by J. S. Bach was released in 2000 on CD Accord and earned him a Fryderyk Award.
The vast repertoire of Andrzej Bauer includes many contemporary works, some of which were composed especially for him. At 2002 Warsaw Autumn, he played a recital of first performances of works for solo cello and electronic media, which he himself inspired. The Cellotronicum project thus started has continued ever since, generating many recordings and further premieres in Europe’s major contemporary music centres. Another edition of Cellotronicum presented at 2006 Warsaw Autumn was awarded with the Orpheus Prize.
Andrzej Bauer is Professor at the Fryderyk Chopin Music University in Warsaw and the Feliks Nowowiejski Music Academy in Bydgoszcz. He is also a founder of the Warsaw Cellonet Group. Recently he has increasingly engaged in composition and improvisation.