Founded in 2007, it has appeared at numerous festivals including Wratislavia Cantans, Ensemble, Musica Polonica Nova, Jazztopad, “Chain” Witold Lutosławski Festival, Lutosławski Forum at the Warsaw Philharmonic, Klara Festival in Brussels, Ankara Music Festival, Hong Kong Arts Festival, Tongyeong International Music Festival (South Korea), Flanders Festival in Ghent, World Music Days, Musica Polonesa in Catalunya, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki Festival in Cracow, and IS Arti Festival in Kaunas. It has played in concert halls such as Tokyo’s Kioi Hall, Singapore’s YST Conservatory, Hangzhou Theatre, and Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing as well as Sofia, Athens, Thessaloniki, Belgrade, Berlin’s Konzerthaus, Brussels Opera, São Paulo and other cities in Brazil.

The ensemble has appeared in concert with musicians such as Andrzej Bauer, Bruno Canino, Paul Gulda, Silesian Quartet, Royal String Quartet, Tomasz Strahl, Ryszard Groblewski, Nicholas Daniel, Chopin Competition award winners such as Eugen Indjic, Garrick Ohlsson and Kevin Kenner, clarinettist Michel Lethiec, and jazz musicians including Kenny Wheeler, John Taylor, Uri Caine, and Benoît Delbecq. It has also performed the concertos for quartet and orchestra of Bohuslav Martinů and Arnold Schoenberg under the baton of Jacek Kaspszyk.

Together with guest musicians Krzysztof Jakowicz and Andrzej Bauer, the Lutosławski Quartet has recorded an album with Witold Lutosławski’s chamber works for CD Accord, awarded with a nomination for 2009 Fryderyk Awards. In 2010, its Bridge CD was published with the quartets of Shostakovich, Szymanowski and Marcin Markowicz (one of the ensemble’s members). In 2012, it recorded the complete quartets of Grażyna Bacewicz for Naxos, and in 2014, published a CD with the quartets of Lutosławski and Mykietyn.

The Lutosławski Quartet performs both classical and modern music, focusing on the works of Polish composers. It operates as one of the ensembles of the National Music Forum in Wrocław.