Jan Lewtak
Graduated from the Chopin Academy (now University) of Music in Warsaw, where he studied violin with Zenon Brzewski and Mirosław Ławrynowicz. A winner of prizes at various music competitions, he has participated in a number of national and international masterclasses, as well as in the Talents Week Festival in Tarnów. Since 1983, a member of the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. He has performed as a chamber musician in Finland, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, the UK, South Korea, China and Japan, and as a soloist in Germany, the US, the UAE, Spain and Japan.
He has made many disc and archive recordings. He has also presented a series of original programmes on Niccolo Paganini’s Caprices for Solo Violin on Polish Radio, for which he received an award from the Radio and Television Commission.
Jan Lewtak has written numerous arrangements for chamber orchestra; for Chopin Year 2010, to a commission from PWM Edition, he arranged for piano and string orchestra both of Chopin’s piano concertos.
He is the founder and Artistic Director of the Warsaw Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, with which, in 2003, he recorded Antonio Vivaldi’s Four Seasons as a soloist under the baton of Antoni Wit.
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