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Is a graduate of the State Secondary Music School in
Bia1ystok, where he studied with Helena Frankiewicz. He then studied with
Andrzej JasiYski at the Music Academy in Katowice (diploma in 1988). He is
a prizewinner of several piano and chamber music competitions. His
teaching activities include a position at the Music Academy in Katowice.
He has also collaborated with the Mozarteum University in Salzburg (since
1997). He performs regularly in Poland and abroad both as
a soloist and in chamber ensembles. He has appeared at the Salzburg
Festival.
He has made recordings of works by Aleksander Micha1owski and Raul
Koczalski for the series OThe Grand Polish Chopin Tradition1 (Selene
Records). He often records for Polish Radio and Polish Television.
silesian quartet
was founded in 1978 by a group of students from the Karol Szymanowski
Academy of Music in Katowice. It developed its skills at master courses
conducted by the members of such quartets as LaSalle, Amadeus, Juilliard,
Smetana and Berg. The Quartet1s repertoire includes over 250 pieces of
chamber literature, of which almost two hundred are by 20th-century
composers. The Silesian Quartet has premiered around 60 works by Polish
and foreign composers, many of which have been dedicated to the Quartet.
It has performed at the OWarsaw Autumn1,OPoznaY Musical Spring1, the
Polish Contemporary Music Festival in Wroc1aw, the Penderecki Festival in
Lus1awice (Poland) and Kraków, the Szymanowski1s Music Days at Zakopane (Poland),
the Berliner Musiktage, OTime of Music1 in Viitasaari (Finland),
OInventionen1 in Berlin, Lerchenborg Musikdage (Denmark), OMusicorama1 in
Hong Kong, Festival de Saint-Denis in Paris, the Contemporary Music
Festival OMelos-Ethos1 in Bratislava, OWien Modern1, ORomaeuropa1,
Musikhost in Odense (Denmark), Musikbiennale in Berlin.
The Silesian Quartet has given over one thousand concerts in Poland and
has also performed in many European countries, as well as the United
States, Canada, Mexico, Israel and Hong Kong.
Its discography includes complete string quartets by Aleksander Tansman
(on Etcaetera label), Karol Szymanowski and Igor Stravinsky (Partridge),
works by Henryk M. Górecki (Olympia, the 1995 OFryderyk1 Award),
Krzysztof Penderecki (Wergo) and Zygmunt Krauze (Thesis). The ensemble1s
recent recordings include the String Quartet by Stefan Wolpe (for cpo),
the chamber version of Chopin1s Concerto in E minor Op. 11 (for the
Belgian label Récital, with Kornelia Ogórek), the piano quintets by
Johannes Brahms and Juliusz Zar´bski (for Polskie Nagrania, with Pawe1
Kowalski),
a selection of Mozart quartets, OMiniatures1 and OThe Magic of the Fugue1
(for Polish Radio Katowice). The recording of string quartets by
Szymanowski and Lutos1awski for cd Accord won two prestigious awards in
1998: the ORecord of the Year1 in a poll of the Studio magazine and the
OFryderyk1 Award.
In 1992 the Silesian Quartet launched an annual chamber music festival in
Rybna (near Tarnowskie Góry, Silesia, Poland), held under the motto OThe
Silesian Quartet and its Guests1.
The ensemble has won awards at the unesco International Composers1 Rostrum
in Paris for the recording of quartets by Eugeniusz Knapik (1984) and
Aleksander LasoY (1988). Its honours also include the award of the Polish
Composers1 Union (1994), the artistic awards from the Katowice Province
Governor (1988) and the City Mayor (1992), the Gold Cross of Merit (1999)
and the OOrpheus1 Prize for the performance of Witold Szalonek1s Symphony
of Rituals at the Warsaw Autumn Festival in 2002.
Marek MoE served as the Quartet1s First Violin for many years. In
September 2001 he was succeeded by Szymon Krzeszowiec.
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