Professor Andrzej Wróbel

Grad­u­ated from the Fry­deryk Chopin Acad­emy of Music in 1972 and was employed there that same year. He began his artis­tic career when he was still a stu­dent. In 1966–86 he was a mem­ber of the National Phil­har­monic Cham­ber Orches­tra directed by Karol Teutsch.

In 1972 he and J. Tawroszewicz founded the “Pol­ish Quar­tet” string quar­tet. Together with this ensem­ble he won prizes at sev­eral com­pe­ti­tions: Col­mar — 1^st prize, Bel­grad — 2^nd prize, Munich — 3^rd prize. The Quar­tet made many record­ings for Ger­man, Swiss, French and Pol­ish radios. It also made a record for Pol­skie Nagra­nia. Unfor­tu­nately the Quar­tet broke up in 1981.

In 1972–73 Andrzej Wró­bel also worked for the National Phil­har­monic orches­tra. He was con­cert­mas­ter at the War­saw Cham­ber Opera from 1972 to 1985. Together with Jerzy Maksymiuk he founded the Pol­ish Cham­ber Orches­tra. In 1986 he estab­lished another cham­ber ensem­ble, “Cam­er­ata Vis­tula”, which he still man­ages. The group is very active. It plays in many coun­tries in Europe and Amer­ica and makes records which get excel­lent reviews in mag­a­zines devoted to CDs.

In addi­tion to play­ing cham­ber music Andrzej Wró­bel is also a soloist. He plays both clas­si­cal and con­tem­po­rary music and has made sev­eral record­ings for Pol­ish and Ger­man record pro­duc­ers. He has edited many pieces for cham­ber ensem­bles, the most impor­tant of which are the first cham­ber ver­sions of all Chopin’s works for piano and orches­tra since Chopin’s times. He has also edited C. Debussy’s 6 Antique Epigraphs for a string orches­tra (and a later ver­sion for a string quar­tet). He pub­lished I. F. Dobrzyński’s Piano Trio and Z. Noskowski’s 2^nd String Quar­tet in PWM. He also edited A. Stolpe’s Vari­a­tions for String Quar­tet, Piano sex­tet and Dra­matic Scene, J. Nowakowski’s Piano Quin­tet and many other exam­ples of Pol­ish cham­ber music.

In 2003 he organ­ised the 1^st Pol­ish Cham­ber Music Fes­ti­val and in 2004 he organ­ised the 2^nd edi­tion of the festival.

In addi­tion to the afore­men­tioned activ­i­ties Andrzej Wró­bel organ­ises con­certs. Dur­ing the twenty years as man­ager of “Cam­er­ata Vis­tula” he organ­ised sev­eral hun­dred concerts.