Mariusz PATYRA
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Data publikacji / 2022-10-06

Student of Zbigniew Ciucias and Antoni Hoffmann (Olsztyn), Agnieszka Cypryk­ Chmielewska and Janusz Kucharski (Warsaw), Krzysztof Węgrzyn (Hannover), and maestro Salvatore Accardo (Cremona), in 2018 he graduated with dis­tinction from Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz, where he currently runs own class of the violin.

His greatest achievements include victory at the Premio Paganini Inter­national Violin Competition (Genoa 2001). The first Pole to win the event, he was also awarded special prize for the best performance of Caprices by the competition patron, as well as a copy of the latter’s violin, Il Cannone. Mariusz Patyra is also finalist of International Antonio Stradivari Violin Competition in Cremona (1988), prize holder of International Joseph Joachim Violin Com­petition in Hannover (1997), winner of 4th Prize and holder of special prize of Odense Symfoniorkester at International Carl Nielsen Violin Competition in Odense (2000), as well as holder of the Italian award Premio Pressenda 2006. In 2006, he received JESC Japan Music Foundation Scholarship.

The violinist has given concerts throughout Europe, in Japan, the United States, and in South America. Has collaborated with such ensembles, as the Royal Chamber Orchestra Tokyo, Orchestra della Fondazione Arturo Toscanini, Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana, Polska Orki­ estra Radiowa (Polish Radio Orchestra), Orkiestra Kameralna Polskiego Radia Amadeus (Amadeus Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra), Orkiestra Filharmonii Narodowej (National Philharmonic Orchestra) in Warsaw, or Orkiestra Sinfonia Varsovia (Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra).

Besides recording for Polish, German (NDR, WDR) and Italian (RAI, TRE) radio stations, the artist has released the following records: Cztery pory roku. Vivaldi [The Four Seasons. Vivaldi] with the National Philharmonic (Lipinski Royal Fidelity, 2008), Paganini, Saint-Saëns, Massenet (DUX, 2008), Henryk Wieniawski. Koncerty Skrzypcowe [Violin Concertos] (DUX, 2008), and No. 24 (Toinen Music, 2019). Mariusz Patyra plays a 2020 copy of a Guarneri del Gesu instrument made by Wojciech Topa.