Bauer, Andrzej

Winner of the 1st Prize at the ARD International Competition in Munich, a prize in the Prague Spring International Competition, and awards from the European Parliament, the Council of Europe, the Polish Composers’ Union, and the Polish Minister of Culture for his services in propagating contemporary music. He studied the cello with Kazimierz Michalik as well as during masterclasses with André Navarra, Miloš Sadlo, and Daniil Shafran. As a Witold Lutosławski scholarship holder, he studied in London with William Pleeth. 

He has recorded for Polish and foreign radio and TV stations and taken part in international festivals. He has performed as a recitalist, chamber musician, and soloist with symphony orchestras and chamber ensembles in most European countries, the United States, and Japan. His recordings have won numerous awards, including the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik and Fryderyk Award from the Polish record industry (2000). 

His wide repertoire features numerous new music works, including many composed for him. The 2006 edition of the Cellotronicum project presented at the Warsaw Autumn won the Orpheus Prize.

He is the founder of the Cellonet ensamble, which recently celebrated its tenth anniversary with a concert at the Warsaw Philharmonic featuring Agata Zubel and Leszek Możdżer. He has worked with outstanding creative artists, inspiring the composition of works for solo cello and electronic media (Cellotronicum). 

From 2012 to 2015, he created the Trans-Fusion series of concerts at Polish Radio, combining different styles of performance and improvisation with computer technology. He is the founder and artistic director of Chain Ensemble, specialising in the performance of new music. 

In 2017, together with Chain Ensemble, he inaugurated the New Music Scene, a three-year series of concerts at the Nowy Theatre in Warsaw.

A professor of musical arts, Andrzej Bauer teaches cello at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw and Bydgoszcz Academy of Music.