About.
British-Polish violinist Michał Ćwiżewicz has given concerts across Europe, the Middle-East and USA and his playing has been broadcast on BBC television and Radio and Polish national television.
He performs frequently in the violin duo Cwizewicz Brothers, the acclaimed Minerva Piano Trio and is also concertmaster and co-director of the Górecki Chamber Orchestra and director of the Ognisko Chamber Ensemble.
As a sought-after teacher, Michał is a violin professor at the Royal College of Music and the Head of Strings at Uppingham School.
Numerous prizes enabled his studies at the Royal College of Music, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the Paris Conservatoire, the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofia in Madrid and with celebrated musicians Krzysztof Śmietana, Itzhak Rashkovsky and members of the Alban Berg, Arpeggione and Ysaÿe quartets. In 2007 Michał received his Masters in Aeronautical Engineering from Imperial College. In 2009 he graduated with distinction as postgraduate at the Royal College of Music. He was presented to Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace’s Young Artist’s Reception and has performed for HM King Charles III.
Other musical passions include the folk music of Eastern Europe (in particular, of the Carpathian Mountains which he has been playing since early childhood - taught by legendary violinists of the Podhale, Eugenius Wilczek and Władysław Trebunia-Tutka) and the music of Javanese Gamelan which he performed throughout his youth as a member of the Southbank Gamelan Players.
“His understanding of the many moods and the ever changing direction of the music was masterly; in lyrical music he gave the fullest voice but was unafraid to attack the instrument in the many bravura passages”
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