Polish violinist, JANUSZ WAWROWSKI is recognized as one of the most outstanding and experienced violinists of his generation. He is a graduate and professor at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, and also studied with Professor Mirosław Ławrynowicz, Professor Yair Kless and Salvatore Accardo.
As a soloist, he has performed in many of the world’s most important concert halls, including: Musikverein, Vienna, Wigmore Hall, London, Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg, Beethoven- Saal, Stuttgart, Seoul Arts Center, Lithuanian National Philharmonic, Vilnius, De Doelen, Rotterdam, Kravis Center, West Palm Beach, Teatro Teresa Carreῆo, Caracas, National Philharmonic, Warsaw, NFM, Wroclaw, NOSPR, Katowice and M. Karlowicz Philharmonic, Szczecin.
Janusz has been associated with the Warner Classics label for many years, releasing seven solo albums and a number of singles, winning many notable awards and excellent critics’ reviews. His album, Phoenix, received nominations for ICMA 2022, PdSK, Opus Klassik 2021 and Fryderyk 2022, and was chosen album of the month on the UK’s Presto Classic and album of the week on London’s Classic FM, Norddeutscher Rundfunk and Polish Radio Dwójka. He is also the winner of the 2017 and 2019 Fryderyk awards, the most prestigious phonographic honour in Poland.
Besides Warner Classics, Janusz Wawrowski collaborates with the Naxos Label. Recent releases include the Valentin Silvestrov: Symphony for Violin and Orchestra & Violin Concerto with the Lithuanian National Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Christopher Lyndon-Gee. Also, a new album, Consonance, with soprano Bogumiła Dziel-Wawrowska, and the Lithuanian NICO Ensemble conducted by Gediminas Gelgotas, creating a unique fusion of Polish, Lithuanian, and Ukrainian cultures.
An important part of Janusz’ career is the interpretation and research of Polish music, which he has been trying to bring to the public for many years as the initiator and artistic director of international festivals – Music on the Heights (2009-2010) and Musical Spaces (since 2011).
He has given many premieres of violin concertos, Tomasz J. Opałka, Marcin Markowicz, Norbert Palej, Dariusz Przybylski and Albena Petrovic have written works dedicated to him. A unique reconstruction of Różycki’s Violin Concerto, which disappeared in Warsaw, ruined by the Uprising in 1944, was created on his initiative and recorded with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London under the baton of Grzegorz Nowak (Warner Classics).
For his outstanding artistic and social activities, Janusz was awarded the medal of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage for Merit to Polish Culture. He was also nominated for the “Coryphaeus of Polish Music” award in the “Personality of the Year” category 2018 and the Norwid 2019 statuette.
Janusz plays a 1685 Antonio Stradivari violin. It is the first and so far the only instrument of this class in the country’s post-war history.
