Kamil Staniczek

He began learn­ing to play the vio­lin under the guid­ance of his father, vio­lin­ist and ped­a­gogue Walde­mar Stan­iczek. He is a grad­u­ate of the Fry­deryk Chopin Uni­ver­si­ty of Music in War­saw, where he stud­ied vio­lin in the class of the renowned ped­a­gogue, soloist, and cham­ber musi­cian Pro­fes­sor Jan Stanienda.

In 2009, togeth­er with the cham­ber ensem­ble “Chopin Piano Quin­tet,” he became a final­ist of the Inter­na­tion­al Gian­ni Berg­amo Clas­sic Music Award Com­pe­ti­tion in Lugano (Switzer­land).

He has par­tic­i­pat­ed mul­ti­ple times in Inter­na­tion­al Music Cours­es under the guid­ance of dis­tin­guished teach­ers such as Mari­na Jaszwili, Kaz­imierz Ole­chows­ki, Jan Stanien­da, Bar­tosz Bryła, Tadeusz Gadz­i­na, Hat­to Bey­er­le (Alban Berg Quar­tett), Mar­ta Gulyas, Avedis Kouy­oumd­jian, and Peter Schu­may­er (Artis Quartett).

Kamil Stan­iczek is a mem­ber of the string quar­tet “Nos­tade­ma.” The ensem­ble, along with pianist Woj­ciech Świę­tońs­ki, has per­formed at events such as the 47th Pol­ish Piano Fes­ti­val in Słup­sk (where they gave the world pre­miere of Paweł Łukaszewski’s Piano Quin­tet ded­i­cat­ed to the ensem­ble), the 5th Music in the Peaks Fes­ti­val in Zakopane, the 29th Musi­ca Poloni­ca Nova Fes­ti­val in Wrocław (where they gave the world pre­miere of Adri­an Foltyn’s Piano Quin­tet Re-Dim Q‑Int), as well as for the Aus­tri­an Cul­tur­al Forum in War­saw. He par­tic­i­pat­ed with the ensem­ble in the mas­ter­class course “Great Quar­tets at the East­er Fes­ti­val of Lud­wig van Beethoven,” led by the Fine Arts Quar­tet. In 2010, he and the ensem­ble received the Rec­tor’s Award from the Fry­deryk Chopin Uni­ver­si­ty of Music in War­saw. In 2012, the ensem­ble received a schol­ar­ship from the “New Inter­pre­ta­tions” pro­gram of the Insti­tute of Music and Dance. He is also a mem­ber of the con­tem­po­rary music ensem­ble #Ensem­ble (Hash­tag Ensemble).

He per­formed as a soloist with the Sile­sian Cham­ber Orches­tra, the Gli­wice Cham­ber Orches­tra, and the Sym­pho­ny Orches­tra of the Fry­deryk Chopin Uni­ver­si­ty of Music in Warsaw.

He is cur­rent­ly the leader of the sec­ond vio­lins in the Sin­fo­nia Varso­via Orches­tra, with which he has per­formed in many Euro­pean coun­tries as well as Turkey, Chi­na, Japan, South Korea, and Oman, under the baton of dis­tin­guished con­duc­tors such as Jerzy Maksymiuk, Krzysztof Pen­derec­ki, Marc Minkows­ki, Alexan­der Ved­ernikov, Jean-Jacques Kan­torow, Hubert Soudant, Marek Janows­ki, and along­side soloists includ­ing Anne-Sophie Mut­ter, Yuri Bash­met, Max­im Vengerov, Boris Bere­zovsky, Julian Rach­lin, and Augustin Dumay. Togeth­er with the con­cert­mas­ters and lead­ers of this orches­tra, he forms the Sin­fo­nia Varso­via String Quin­tet, which record­ed an album in 2019 fea­tur­ing works by D. Shostakovich, K. Pen­derec­ki, R. Panufnik, and W. Lutosławs­ki. Addi­tion­al­ly, he is the con­cert­mas­ter of the Gli­wice Cham­ber Orchestra.