Professor Andrzej Mysiński

Andrzej Mysiński, born in 1948, stud­ied double-bass with Pro­fes­sor Tadeusz Pel­czar (an hon­ours degree in 1972 from Warsaw’s State Higher Schooll of Music — now the Fry­deryk Chopin Uni­ver­sity of Music). In 1971–80, he played in Jerzy Maksymiuk’s Pol­ish Cham­ber Orches­tra, based in War­saw Cham­ber Opera whose direc­tor is Ste­fan Sutkowski. With that orches­tra, he made numer­ous record­ings for the radio, TV and record com­pa­nies, includ­ing the British EMI (G. Rossini’s Sonatas for String Orches­tra).

Since 1985, Andrzej Mysiński has been Artis­tic Direc­tor of the Con­certo Avenna War­saw Soloists. With that orches­tra he has appeared as a musi­cian, soloists and con­duc­tor at con­certs in the USA, Mex­ico, Japan, the United Emi­rates of Ara­bia, Great Britain, France, Nor­way, Spain, Den­mark, Aus­tria, Ger­many, Switzer­land, the Nether­lands, Slove­nia, Turkey, the for­mer Czecho­slo­va­kia, Bul­garia, Roma­nia, and oth­ers. As the artis­tic direc­tor of the ensem­ble, he par­tic­i­pated in many record­ings for the BBC in Lon­don, TV Mex­ico, NHK, other tele­vi­sion sta­tions, as well as record com­pa­nies (36 CDs under Pol­ish and for­eign labels, incl. CD Accord, Syrinx, Adda, Poly­gram, Sony-Classical). Together with Con­certo Avenna, he has appeared at famous fes­ti­vals, such as the War­saw Autumn, Schleswig-Holstein Music Fes­ti­val, the Lufthansa Baroque Music Fes­ti­val in Lon­don, the Dan­ish Vessby Music Fes­ti­val and Copen­hagen Music Fes­ti­val, Prague Music Spring, Bergen Music Fes­ti­val, Istan­bul Music Fes­ti­val, Hol­land Festival.

In 1990, he received the War­saw Province Award for out­stand­ing achieve­ments in the pro­mo­tion of Baroque Music.

Since 1972, he has been on the fac­ulty of Warsaw’s Fry­deryk Chopin Acad­emy of Music, orig­i­nally as an assis­tant pro­fes­sor of double-bass in the class of Pro­fes­sor Tadeusz Pel­czar, now — as a pro­fes­sor of double-bass teach­ing his own class.

In 1994–96, he was direc­tor of the Early Music Stu­dio in that academy.

He is now full pro­fes­sor and is in charge of the dou­ble bass class at the Fry­deryk Chopin Uni­ver­sity of Music in War­saw. He was deputy vice-dean of the Depart­ment of Instru­men­tal Stud­ies for two terms (2002–2008).

He also teaches numer­ous mas­ter classes of double-bass and cham­ber music, in Poland and abroad.