Krzysztof Bednarczyk
Born in 1958 in Gostynin, Krzysztof Bednarczyk started to study music and play the trumpet at the age of 14. In 1981, he graduated with distinction the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw. In the second year of his studies, he joined the Polish Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra in Warsaw as a trumpeter, and over the following few years he had the opportunity to collaborate with the outstanding musician Stefan Rachoń – the former head of the orchestra.
Since 1984, he has been associated with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra – since 1990 as its first trumpeter-soloist. During more than 30 years of his artistic career at the Warsaw Philharmonic, he appeared in over 1000 concerts in the orchestra’s main building, and went on several dozen tours abroad (Europe, many times the USA and Japan, as well as South America), during which he appeared at the world’s most important concert halls, including Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall in New York, the Royal Albert Hall, Barbican Centre, and Royal Festival Hall in London, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, as well as in Munich, Paris, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Vienna, and Berlin.
The artist has also appeared as a soloist with symphony orchestras in Poland, including several times with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, with which, under the baton of Jacek Kaspszyk and Rafał Janiak, he took part in concerts for children, performing pieces by Alexander Arutiunian and Jean-Baptiste Arban, and also performed Shostakovich’s Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and String Orchestra under the baton of Mariusz Smolij and with Nikolai Demidenko as a pianist. He has also appeared with the organists Andrzej Chorosiński, Krzysztof Latała, and Wiktor Łyjak.
Krzysztof Bednarczyk is also very active as a chamber musician. Since 1991, he has performed together with the soloists of the orchestra as the Brass Quintet of the Warsaw Philharmonic. He has made many archival recordings as well as recordings of contemporary and film music.
[2022]