Jakub Jakowicz
Jakub Jakowicz has performed on stage since the age of 11. He has appeared alongside all the leading Polish orchestras as well as Münchner Philharmoniker, Dresdner Philharmonie, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Czech Philharmonic in Prague, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Geneva, Orquesta Nacional de España in Madrid, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo, and Concerto Köln. He has collaborated with conductors such as Pinchas Steinberg, Jerzy Semkow, Antoni Wit, Jerzy Maksymiuk, Jacek Kaspszyk, Kazimierz Kord, Jan Krenz, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Eiji Oue, Marek Pijarowski, Krzysztof Penderecki, Agnieszka Duczmal, Michail Jurowski, and Marc Minkowski. In 2009 and 2011, at the invitation of Antoni Wit, the artist appeared as a soloist during the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra’s tours of the United Kingdom.
As a chamber musician, he performs in a duo with his father Krzysztof. The artist has also played with such musicians as Heinz Holliger, Paavali Jumppanen, Garrick Ohlsson, Paul Gulda, Bartosz Bednarczyk, Jan Krzysztof Broja, Szymon Nehring, Michel Lethiec, Elina Vähälä, Anna Maria Staśkiewicz, Ruth Killius, Katarzyna Budnik, Avri Levitan, Tomoko Akasaka, Gareth Lubbe, Daniel Müller-Schott, Andrzej Bauer, Tomasz Strahl, Alexander Gebert, Rafał Kwiatkowski, Marcin Zdunik, Zvi Plesser, Timo-Veikko Valve and Julius Berger.
In the years 2008–2014, Jakub Jakowicz was the leader of the Lutosławski Quartet, recording the complete set of Grażyna Bacewicz’s string quartets for the Naxos label. Since 2006, he has been a member of the Zehetmair Quartet (founded by the Austrian violinist and conductor Thomas Zehetmair). The latter ensemble’s album (released on the ECM label) featuring works by Béla Bartók and Paul Hindemith was awarded the 2007 Diapason d’Or de l’Année. As part of the Zehetmair Quartet, Jakub Jakowicz has performed in numerous concert halls around the world. In the 2024/2025 season, he began working with Szymon Nehring and Marcin Zdunik, co-founding the Genesis Piano Trio.
The artist is the winner of a Passport Award conferred by the weekly Polityka (2003). In 2007, he was honoured with the Orpheus Award at the ‘Warsaw Autumn’ International Festival of Contemporary Music, and in 2018, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the promotion of the music of Witold Lutosławski, he was awarded a Medal of the Centenary of the Birth of the Composer, conferred by the Witold Lutosławski Society. He has also twice been the recipient of a Fryderyk Award. The violinist’s discography includes recordings of works by Ernest Chausson with pianist Paavali Jumppanen and the Lutosławski Quartet, as well as the CD Departures – a recital of 20th-century Polish music, recorded with pianist Łukasz Chrzęszczyk.
Jakub Jakowicz is a professor of violin at the Chopin University of Music in Warsaw and at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice.
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