Bauer, Andrzej

Born in Łódź, he studied in his home city with Kazimierz Michalik, and took part in numerous masterclasses with André Navarra, Miloš Sadlo, and Daniel Shafran. As a Witold Lutosławski scholarship holder, he also completed a two-year course with William Pleeth in London. He won the 1st Prize at the ARD International Competition in Munich, was a prize winner at the Prague Spring Competition, and recipient of the European Parliament and Council Award.

He has given recitals in Amsterdam, Paris, Vienna, Hamburg, and Munich, and has performed with orchestras such as the Munich Philharmonic, RAI Orchestra in Naples, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Stuttgart Radio Orchestra, and Berlin Radio Symphony. He has also played with the majority of Polish symphony and chamber orchestras, and has been invited by Warsaw Philharmonic and the Sinfonia Varsovia to perform as a soloist during 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 United States and Japan. His recording of Schubert, Brahms and Schumann for Koch/Schwann was awarded the quarterly German Record Critics’ Award. Successive CD releases include works by Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Messiaen, Panufnik, as well as Lutosławski’s Cello Concerto. His Polish premiere recording of the complete Suites for cello by Johann Sebastian Bach was released in 2000 by CD Accord and earned him the 2000 Fryderyk Award of the Polish Phonographic Academy. Andrzej Bauer’s vast repertoire includes many contemporary works, some of which have been composed especially for him. At the 2002 Warsaw Autumn Festival, he played a recital of first performances of works for solo cello and electronic media. 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 the 2006 Warsaw Autumn was awarded the Orpheus Prize.