VOYTEK PRONIEWICZ

Voytek Proniewicz graduated from the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw. He has appeared as a soloist with the Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra, the Wrocław Philharmonic Orchestra, the Sinfonia Viva orchestra and the Sinfonia Iuventus orchestra, and performed in leading Polish concert halls. Awards include third prize at the Ludwig van Beethoven International Violin Competition in Hradec nad Moravicí, Czech Republic (1998), first prize at the Stanisław Serwaczyński National Violin Competition for Young Violinists in Lublin (2002), third prize at the Kiejstut Bacewicz International Chamber Music Contest in Łódê (2004), and distinction at the Karol Szymanowski International Violin Competition in Łódê (2005). His international career has taken him to Germany, the Czech Republic, England, Denmark, Cyprus, Italy, Spain, China and Venezuela. He was a long-standing scholarship holder of the Polish Children’s Fund, and was also granted a scholarship by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in 2001, with the Młoda Polska scholarship of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in 2009.