Maciej Kułakowski
Laureate of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels and winner of the 10th Witold Lutosławski International Cello Competition in Warsaw. As a soloist, he has performed with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Sinfonietta Cracovia, Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra, London Mozart Players, Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Brussels Philharmonic, Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, and AUKSO Chamber Orchestra of the City of Tychy. As a chamber musician, he has participated in such festivals as the Piatigorsky International Cello Festival in Los Angeles, the Beijing Music Festival, the Krzysztof Penderecki International Festival in Zabrze, the Witold Lutosławski "Chain" Festival in Warsaw, the Krzyżowa-Music Festival in Poznań, the Hohenstaufen Kammermusik Festival and the Munich Rising Stars. He has collaborated with many prominent artists such as Krzysztof Penderecki, Emanuel Ax, Christoph Eschenbach, Mischa Maisky, Viviane Hagner, Charles Neidich, Arnold Steinhardt, Jan Vogler, Lawrence Power, Kian Soltani, Marek Moś, Marek Pijarowski, Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Frank Braley and Stéphane Denève.
In January 2010, at the Baltic Philharmonic Hall in Gdańsk, Maciej Kułakowski performed Tadeusz Kassak’s McKulak, a composition dedicated to him, accompanied by the Kassak Brass Ensemble. He was a resident of the Seiji Ozawa International Academy Switzerland (2018). He is a musician of the Cellonet ensemble, led by Andrzej Bauer as well the Wiłkomirski Trio, with which he recorded, among others, an album with music by Anton Arensky (DUX).
He studied at the Stanislaw Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk (class of Marcin Zdunik) and the Mannheim Universität, the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt in Weimar and the Kronberg Academy under Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt. He was a recipient of scholarships from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben and Polish cultural institutions. He has taken part in many master classes given by such prominent artists as András Schiff, Gidon Kremer, Steven Isserlis, Frans Helmerson, Mischa Maisky, Truls Mork, Gary Hoffman, Philippe Muller, Jens Peter Maintz, Ivan Monighetti and Andrzej Bauer.
[2023]