2015    Gold Medal and I' th prize violin category in the VI'th International Violin Makers Competition                             "Violino Arvenzis" in Dolny Kubin 

2014    Prize for the Best Tone violin category in the V'th W. KamiÅ„ski Polish Violin Making Competition in PoznaÅ„

2011    Scholar  Ministry of Culture and National Heritage

2009    Prize for the Best Tone violin category in the IV’th W. KamiÅ„ski Polish Violin Making Competition                         in PoznaÅ„

2007    Prize for the Best Tone  and II'th prize violin secesio violin category in the II'th International Violin  Makers Competition in Dolny Kubin (Slovakia)

2004     Prize for the Best Tone viola category in the III’th W. KamiÅ„ski Polish Violin Making Competition in PoznaÅ„

2002      VIII’th prize  and distinction  viola category in the IV’th International P. Tchaikovsky Violin Making                                                   Competition in Moscow

2002    opened a luthierie workshop in PoznaÅ„

2002    diplom of the I. J. Paderewski Music Akademy in PoznaÅ„ in faculty of violin making

2001     VII’th prize of tonal qualities of a violin category in the X’th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Making                                   Competition in PoznaÅ„                     

1999     VII’th prize  and distinction  violin category in the II’th W KamiÅ„ski Polish Violin Making                                                                   Competition in PoznaÅ„

1996    diplom of the A. Kenar Lyceum of Fine Arts in Zakopane and diplom of School Music

1976    born

 


 


          I was born on 10 July 1976 in Poland. I learned lutherie in the A. Kenar State Secondary School of Art in Zakopane (1992 – 1996), and subsequently (2002) completed studies in the lutherie class of Antoni Krupa at the I. J. Paderewski   Academy  of  Music  in  PoznaÅ„.I was awarded his Master of Arts degree in lutherie on the basis of a manufactured violin, the conservation of varnish on a violin, and the written work Zagadnienia zwiÄ…zane z retuszem i konserwacjÄ… lakieru w instrumentach lutniczych [Issues Conected with the Retouching and Conservation of Varnish in Stringed Instruments]. Since 2002 I have run my own lutherie workshop in PoznaÅ„.