Professor Paweł Łosakiewicz

Paweł Łosakiewicz stud­ied the vio­lin at the Fry­deryk Chopin Acad­emy of Music in War­saw with Pro­fes­sor Irena Dubiska in 1966–1971. He is the win­ner of sev­eral inter­na­tional com­pe­ti­tions includ­ing the J. Haydn Inter­na­tional String Quar­tet Com­pe­ti­tion (Vienna, 1971) — 2^nd prize, the Bor­deaux Music Bien­nale (1973) — sil­ver medal and the Inter­na­tional String Quar­tet Com­pe­ti­tion (Munich, 1973) — 3^rd prize. He has played with the Wilanów Quar­tet in every Euro­pean coun­try and also in the USA, Mex­ico, Brazil, Japan and Canada.

He has per­formed at the most pres­ti­gious con­cert halls: Herkules Saal Munich, Pleyel Lon­don, Gaveau Paris and the Berlin Phil­har­monic. He has col­lab­o­rated with such dis­tin­guished musi­cians as K. Zimer­man, G. Kre­mer, J. Cause, B. Davi­dovitch and E. Bruner and such com­posers as W. Lutosławski, K. Pen­derecki, H. M. Górecki, K. Meyer, M. Sta­chowski and M. Beyer.

He has lec­tured at mas­ter courses in Lock­en­haus (Aus­tria, 1980), Joli­ette (Canada, 1980–1992) and Cal­gary (Canada, 2005). In 1990–1993 he was Dean of the Instru­men­tal Depart­ment at the Fry­deryk Chopin Acad­emy of Music in War­saw and has been a full pro­fes­sor at the Acad­emy since 1992.

Paweł Łosakiewicz now teaches a vio­lin class at his alma mater and is also head of the Inter­de­part­men­tal Chair of Cham­ber Music.

In 2002, the 35^th anniver­sary of the Wilanów quar­tet, he was awarded the Medal of “Merit for Pol­ish Cul­ture” and the Gold Cross of Merit.