Szymon Krzeszowiec - NOSPR

Laureate of violin competitions in Poznań (Zdzisław Jahnke), Warsaw (Tadeusz Wroński) and in Brescia in Italy. Winner of first prizes at chamber music competitions in Copenhagen and Sondershausen. He studied with Roman Lasocki and Herman Krebbers. As a soloist, he has performed with the best Polish orchestras, such as NOSPR, Sinfonia Varsovia and most of the nation’s philharmonic ensembles.

He has recorded over 40 albums for such labels as EMI Poland, ECM, CHANDOS, BIS, CD ACCORD, DENON, DUX, NAXOS, SONY CLASSICAL Poland, and DACAPO. Since 2001, he has been the 1st violin of the Silesian String Quartet, with whom he also regularly performs the world over. The ensemble has won multiple accolades, including nine Fryderyks, as well as the Gramophone Classical Music Award for recording Grażyna Bacewicz’s string quartets, and the Kory- feusz Muzyki Polskiej award. In 2022 they released a seven-disc album with Mieczysław Weinberg’s complete string quartets. Szymon Krzeszowiec is the head of the String Instruments Department at his alma mater, also teaching violin there. He is an artistic adviser of the Zakopiańska Akademia Sztuki courses and the Mieczysław Wajnberg International Violin Competition.