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= Andrzej Lipiński = Andrzej Lipiński, professor, PhD, born in Lodz, Poland) - Polish sound engineer, record producer, film director, musician, lecturer and designer of Hi-End Hi-Fi and professional electroacoustic equipment. Founder of Tonmeister Recording and Lipinski Sound Corporation (USA), as well as Gali Film Studio and Lipinski Recordings (Poland). Professor at the Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, Poland. Member of the Audio Engineering Society.

Education
He started his music education at the age of six, and graduated from the State Primary Music School in Lodz in the piano class. Followingly, at the Nicolaus Copernicus High School No.1 in Lodz, and concurrently from the State Secondary Music School in Lodz in the Clarinet and Music Theory concentrations. In 1976, he graduated summa cum laude from the Sound Engineering Faculty at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, Poland.

Career progression
The turning point in his career was when as a young jazzman, after the Jazz Jamboree Festival concert at the National Philharmonic in Warsaw, he stayed for the recording session of Krzysztof Komeda's well-recognized Astigmatic album, which inspired him to pursue an academic background to become audio engineer/producer, and enter the elite Sound Engineering Faculty at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music.

As a student, he was still active as a musician and played tenor saxophone in a jazz band, and renowned venue, Stodola with leading Polish jazz musicians.

In his first year at the university, Andrew Lipinski and fellow faculty members - Wieslaw Woszczyk (later president of the Audio Engineering Society and professor at Mc Gill University) and Jerzy Matulewicz - made a two-act professional film based on their own script written to music from the second album of Blood, Sweat & Tears band (which won Album of the Year at the Grammy). The movie was entitled BST+RMC (Blood, Sweat & Tears + Monte Carlo Rally).

In his second year at the university, he recorded as a musician (ts) an album (LP) with the Stodoła Big Band - conducted and created by Henryk Majewski (tp) of Poland's top jazz musicians.

One year before graduating from the Sound Engineering Faculty, Lipinski traveled to the US for the first time, from where he brought his first private professional audio recording equipment. Among his diploma recordings were the very first quadraphonic recordings.

After graduating with honors in 1976, he took a job at his Alma Mater, and a year later as a sound director at the Polish National Radio Classical Music Department headed by Jan Weber.

In the meantime, Andrew Lipinski assembled his own professional recording equipment and set up the first private recording studio in the Eastern Bloc - MoReS (Mobile Recording Studio). Between 1976 and 1981 he recorded more than 50 vinyl LPs for labels such as Veriton, Wifon, Helicon, Polish Jazz Association, Tonpress, Polskie Nagrania, immortalizing the best Polish orchestras and internationally known artists like Ewa Demarczyk, Zhanna Bichevskaya, John Porter, Joachim Grubich, Janusz Olejniczak, Andrzej Chorosinski, Luigi Alva, Tomasz Stanko, Jimmy Rowles, Martial Solal, Kenny Drew, Buddy Rich, among others.

In 1981 he recorded on his equipment, and live in Gdansk, what was to be the 1st Festival of Forbidden Songs commemorating the first anniversary of Solidarity movement. With the help of the US Embassy in Warsaw, he sent the materials to Hollywood, where he then went and released a two-disc album entitled Songs of Solidarity. After the imposition of Martial Law in Poland, the fact that the album was released prevented him from returning to the country for many years.

Since then, Andrew Lipinski has continued his professional career in the US. His American experience as recording engineer/producer began in Hollywood in 1981. Two years later he moved to Bethesda, Maryland, USA, where in 1984 he opened his own recording studio - Tonmeister Recording.

Since the mid ‘90s he has resumed directing recordings in Poland, working with leading Polish composers such as Krzysztof Penderecki, Wojciech Kilar, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki.

In 1995, he founded the Gali Film Studio in Warsaw, specializing in music video, where all programs were prepared for Poland's first music television channel Atomic TV which was co-founded by the renowned Irish musician Bob Geldof. Atomic TV was later acquired by MTV.

Continuing to work as a recording engineer/producer in the US, Lipinski constantly upgraded and improved even the best equipment available on the market to fit his own needs. Ultimately, to keep leading expertise in emerging technological trends in audio, he decided to build his own electroacoustic chain. After years of research the first products released were audio monitors.

In 2003, he founded Lipinski Sound Corporation in the state of Maryland. In just two years, the company built a recognizable brand and earned a worldwide reputation. In Hollywood studios such as Universal, United Artists, Warner Bros, and After Master - the studio with the most platinum records to its credit - work on Lipinski Sound equipment. Dolby labs in Tokyo and Stockholm also work on Lipinski Sound monitoring. It is also used by the best music universities worldwide as Berklee College of Music, Peabody, Cleveland Institute of Music, New York University, in NYC and at its branch in Abu Dhabi, the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, as well as the Moscow Conservatory.

Renowned artists such as Prince also worked on Lipinski Sound equipment in their private studio, which was revealed posthumously when LIPINSKI speakers were found in Prince’s personal vault.

Since the mid ‘90s Andrew Lipinski divided his time between the United States and Poland where he made recordings using his own technologies. He produced albums with such artists as Krzysztof Penderecki, Wojciech Kilar and Henryk Mikołaj Górecki. The aforementioned composers were the first to be recorded in new technologies - on Super Audio CDs and Blu-ray. The SACD record conducted by Krzysztof Penderecki with his piece Credo, in the American monthly Stereophile was included in the list of Records To Die For - among the 80 most outstanding recordings of all time.

Andrew Lipinski also made one of the world's first, and Poland's first recordings on Blu-ray disc in his authorial 8-channel surround/immersive sound system. Captured in this format is a live recording of Frédéric Chopin's Songs in the original concert hall of the former Conservatory of Music in Paris - the only original surviving hall in which Chopin actually performed. The performance also features the original piano on which Chopin played (Pleyel 1843). The 8-channel playback of this recording juxtaposed with a live performance by the same artists caused a sensation at the 138th Audio Engineering Society Convention.

Continuing his academic work, after defending his doctorate (awarded with honors), in 2021 he received a scientific Professorial appointment directly from the President of Poland.

Currently, Andrew Lipinski is a professor at the Sound Directing Faculty at his Alma Mater, the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music. While running his American company Lipinski Sound, he develops new equipment that sets the highest standards in the world of sound recording arts, and the High-End audio world. He directs recordings on his own equipment (some of which is not commercially available) for his audiophile label – Lipinski Recordings.

Achievements, awards, honors

 * Diploma award at the Secondary Music School: soloist performance of the W. A. Mozart Clarinet Concerto with The Arthur Rubinstein Philharmonic Orchestra in Lodz.


 * The first worldwide recording of complete W. A. Mozart's Concert Arias with renowned tenor Luigi Alva.
 * First world recording of the flute version of The Four Seasons by A. Vivaldi with Jadwiga Kotnowska.
 * World's first stereo recording of Handel's opera Sosarme.


 * Achievement at the National Bureau of Standards (United States). After the introduction of digital audio recording, NBS organized tests to detect the digital copy locking system built by CBS. Andrew Lipinski, among a group consisting of Audio Engineering Society members, participated in the tests. He showed phenomenal hearing abilities, and he was the only one who perfectly detected the system's shortcomings. He achieved 100% score, and the NBS 187 page final report determined, that among professionals this is a one-in-1000 case scenario (exceptionally rare hearing).
 * In 1983, 1984 and 1991, honorable mention and winner in Crown International Recording Competitions in the United States.
 * 1985-1987 Member of Editorial Review Board Recording Engineer Producer Magazine.
 * He    contributed as recording engineer to the 1989-1990 Emmy Awards for Sound Engineering for series of American Playhouse shows on Public Broadcasting Service USA.
 * First world recording of W. Kilar's Concerto for Piano & Orchestra No.1 with Peter Jablonski.
 * First world recording of K. Penderecki's Concerto for Clarinet & Orchestra with Dmitri Ashkenazy.
 * In 2000, Caramore NY made the first Direct Stream Digital surround recordings on a prototype Sony system.
 * In 2003, making the first surround recordings for Super Audio CDs (SACD) in Poland
 * The SACD recording of Credo by K. Penderecki, conducted by the composer, was included by the prestigious American audiophile monthly Stereophile magazine in the list of Records To Die For among the 80 most outstanding recordings of all time.
 * In 2004, prestigious U.S. label Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab began using Lipinski Sound speakers, in multiple sets, for remastering unique recordings.
 * Pro Audio Review Magazine Excellence Award for Best Product at the 117th Audio Engineering Society Convention for Lipinski Sound Model L-408 microphone preamplifier. Followed by Pro Audio Review's Reviewer's Choice award for the Best Product of the Year.
 * The album Republique, a recording of rock star Grzegorz Ciechowski's works, arranged for string quartet and performed by the Silesian Quartet,    was honored by the monthly Hi-Fi i Muzyka with the 2005 Record of the Year award.
 * Stereophile Magazine (USA) nominated Lipinski Sound Model L-707 loudspeaker for Product of the Year in 2006, and subsequently placed the product on its list of Recommended Components in the highest class "A".
 * 2006 Fryderyk Award, (Polish Grammy) Album of the Year - Orchestral Music, Mozart - Concertos for 1, 2, 3 Pianos (High Resolution Surround recording)
 * 2006 Fryderyk Award, Album of the Year - Contemporary Music. H. M. Górecki Symphony No 3 (High Resolution Surround recording)
 * 2009 Fryderyk Award, Album of the Year - Opera, K. Szymanowski, King Roger (High Resolution Surround recording)
 * In 2008, development of proprietary 8-channel surround/immersive sound system for Blu-ray discs. One of the first in the world, and the first in Poland classical Blu-ray recording (K. Szymanowski King Roger)
 * A Blu-ray surround/immersive sound recording of Frédéric Chopin's Songs in Paris, in the only authentic surviving concert hall where Chopin actually performed, featuring the original grand piano on which Chopin actually played (Pleyel 1843). The recordings presented together with a live performance of the same artists (with another1843 Playel), caused a sensation at the 138th Audio Engineering Society Convention.
 * Grant of patents in the field of electroacoustics in 2007 (one patent) and in 2014 (two patents)
 * The only recording in High Resolution Surround technology of Tomasz Stanko's New York Quartet – 2013 live concert recording on the tour    promoting ECM’s Wisława album.
 * 2015 Shanghai International Audio Video Show – Best Performance and Best of the Year award for Lipinski Sound L-707A Signature speakers
 * In 2018, it is revealed that Prince worked on Lipinski Sound equipment in his private studio.
 * Lipinski Sound's equipment has been used to develop albums in the US that have won the following Grammy awards:

- Chick Corea Trilogy 2 (Live) – the last Chick Corea's album

- Chicago Symphony Orchestra Resound - D.Shostakovich's Symphony No. 13 (‘Babi Yar’)

- Morning Phase Beck Hansen album, which was nominated for as many as five Grammys in one year alone, and won three: Best Rock Album, Best Recorded Album, and Album of the Year.

Private life
Since 2015 he is married to Ewa Izykowska. From a previous marriage, he is the father of Lukas Lipinski of The Policy Bridge LLC, and grandfather to Preston Lipinski and Victor Lipinski.

Musician (tenor saxophone)
Stodola Big-Band – Let's Swing Again | Polish Recording Company - Polskie Nagrania Muza XL 0826, SXL 0826

Sound engineer, producer, movie director

 * Jam Session - Buddy Rich Combo | B. Rich (dr), Barry Kiener (org), Steve Marcus (ts), Turk Mauro (bs), Bob Mintzer (ts), Dean Pratt (tp) | Poljazz Z-SX-0655


 * Tomasz Stanko - Edward Vesala Quartet - Live at Remont | Helicon HR1002


 * Aquarium Live No. 1 - Laboratory, Laboratorium Jazz Band | Poljazz Z-SX-0669


 * Aquarium Live No. 3 - Extra Ball | Poljazz Z-SX-0671


 * Workshop No. 1 - Wojciech Kaminski | Poljazz PSJ Z-SX-0683


 * Aqarium Live no. 5 - Sun Ship | Zbigniew Jaremko (ts, ss), Wladyslaw Sendecki (p), Witold Szczurek (b), Marek Stach (dr)    | Poljazz Z-SX-0686


 * The Quartet - Slawomir Kulpowicz (p), Tomasz Szukalski (ts, ss), Pawel Jarzębski (b), Janusz Stefanski (dr) | Poljazz Z-SX-0688


 * Ossian, Tomasz Stanko - Ossian | Poljazz Z-SX-0689


 * Jam Session in Aquarium - Night One | Zbigniew Jaremko (ts,) Jan Ptaszyn Wroblewski (ts), Henryk Miskiewicz (as), Jiri Stivin (as), Rein de Graaff (p), Pawel Tabaka (p), Randy Weston - Little (b), Clifford Jarvis (dr) | Poljazz PSJ Z-SX-0692


 * Jam Session in Aquarium - Night Two | Zbigniew Jaremko (ts), Henryk Miskiewicz (as), Charles Davies (bs), Irvin Stokes (tp), Jim McNeely (p), Jesper Lundgard (b), Jerzy Bezucha (dr) | Poljazz PSJ Z-SX-0693


 * Stanislaw Sojka - Don't You Cry | Poljazz Z-SX-0694


 * Kenny Drew - Kenny Drew (p), Pawel Jarzębski (b), Janusz Stefański (dr) | Poljazz Z-SX-0695


 * Martial Solal - Martial Solal | Poljazz Z-SX-0696


 * Aquarium Live No. 6 - Swing Session | Poljazz Z-SX-0705


 * Wojciech Kamiński, Henryk Majewski - Workshop No. 2 | Poljazz PSJ-81


 * Jimmy Rowles - My Mother's Love | Poljazz PSJ-84


 * In/Formation - Aquarium Live No. 7 | Sławomir Kulpowicz (p), Czesław Bartkowski (dr), Witold Szczurek (b) | Poljazz PSJ-88


 * Ossian - Ossian  | Poljazz PSJ-90


 * Zhanna Bichevskaya - Russian  Landscapes | Wifon MC-0112


 * F. Chopin - Barcarola op. 60, Scherzo op. 31, Sonata op35, Arutjun Papazjan | Veriton SXV-885


 * J.S. Bach - Partita VI,  L.v. Beethoven - Sonata Nr 32, Arutjun Papazjan | Veriton SXV-886


 * Mazowsze, The National Folk Song and Dance Ensemble - God Save Poland | Veriton SXV-888, SXV-889


 * Carolo Szymanowski Dicata, Zielona Gora Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Szymon Kawalla cond., | Veriton SXV-891, SXV-891-P


 * Jan Pietrzak - Jan Pietrzak | Tonpress TK-46


 * Porter Band - Mobilization | Wifon, PRiTV LP-030, MC-171, L-72


 * Ewa Demarczyk - Live | Wifon WCD 015, LP-033 | Pomona EDP 1997


 * W. A. Mozart – Complete Concert Arias for Tenor, Luigi Alva (tenor) / Silesian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra  / Wojciech Rajski (cond.) / Janusz Olejniczak (piano) | Wifon LP 057/1-2 VG


 * Georg Friedrich Haendel, Sosarme - Opera Seria in 3 acts (excerpts) | Soloists and Amadeus Chamber orchestra of Polish Radio, Agnieszka     Duczmal (cond.) | Polskie Nagrania SX 2089/90,   PRCD 2345-2346


 * Laudemus Nomen Domini | Veriton SXV-747


 * Franz Haselböck - Secular Organ Music | Veriton SXV-823-24, SXV-823-P, SXV-824-P


 * Organ Music From the Pelpin Tablature, Jerzy Erdman | Veriton SXV-825, 826


 * Frombork - Organ, Andrzej Chorosinski presents the organ in Frombork | Veriton SXV-881


 * Polish Contemporary Organ Music, Andrzej Chorosinski | Veriton SXV-882


 * Polish Organ Music – Joachim Grubich (organ in Frombork) | Veriton SXV-883-P


 * Dworzak, Moniuszko, Franck, Fauré - Vocal Religious Lyricism, Anna Vranova (mezzosopr.), Joachim Grubich (org.) | Veriton SXV-884, SXV-884-P


 * Songs of Solidarity (Piosenki Solidarności) | Echo OCR E 901-2 Stereo


 * K. Penderecki,  Clarinet Concerto / Flute Concerto / Agnus Dei /; Dimitri Ashkenazy (cl), David Aguilar (fl), K. Penderecki (cond.) Sinfonia    Varsovia | Koch international Classics 521102 | Dux Rec. Prod. DUX 0559


 * F. Chopin - Nina Kuzma-Sapiejewska - Ballade / Nokturn / Scherzo / Sonata nr 2 i nr 3 | Koch International Classics    52327-2


 * Classically Cool - Sarasate, Kreisler, Mozart, Joplin - Wieslawa Szymczynska (viol.) Hubert Szymczynski (piano) | Chamber Sound CSCD 97021


 * Music by American Women Composers, L. Rees (piano) & S.Stoyanoff (piano) | Bravura Rec. BR-1001 LP, CC


 * Republique, Grzegorz Ciechowski, Silesian String Quartet | EMI 0946 3 4 6039 2 8


 * Krzysztof Penderecki, Credo, National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra / Polish Radio Choir / Warsaw National Philharmonic Choir / Cracow Philharmonic Boy’s Choir / Bozena Harasimowicz-Haas (sopr.) / Olga Pasiecznik (sopr.) / Agnieszka Rehlis (alto) / Adam Zdunikowski (tenor) / Romuald Tesarowicz (bass) / K. Penderecki (cond.) / Michal Dworzynski (supp. cond.) | PR SACD 1, PR DVD 10001


 * Henryk M. Górecki, Symphony No. 3 of Sorrowful Songs, National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, H. M. Górecki (cond.), Zofia Kielanowicz (sopr.) | PR SACD 2, PR DVD 10002


 * Wojciech Kilar, Missa Pro Pace, National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Polish Radio Choir, Izabella Klosinska (sopr.), Anna Lubanska (alto), Piotr Kusiewicz (tenor), R.Tesarowicz (bass), Kazimierz Kord (cond.) | PR SACD 3,  PR DVD 10003


 * Borodin, Cui, Liadov, Rimsky-Korsakov, Shostakovich, Scriabin, All Russian, Oleg Volkov (piano) | Brioso BR 105


 * K. Szymanowski, King Roger, Wroclaw Opera, Ewa Michnik (cond.) | Polish Audiovisual Publishing House (DVD)
 * Violin Romance, Eunice Lee violin, Nelson Padgett piano | Samsung Classics OCC-7001


 * Wojciech Kilar, Piano Concerto, Choral Prelude I, II, III, Orawa, Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Warsaw, Wojciech Rajski (cond.), Peter Jablonski (piano) | Koch Classics 52033-2


 * W. A. Mozart Piano Concertos for 3, 2, 1 Pianos, - Stanislaw Drzewiecki, Tatiana Shebanowa, Jaroslaw Drzewiecki (pianos), Sinfonia Varsovia, Michael Zilm (cond.) | PR SACD 014


 * A. Vivaldi, The Four Seasons - Mariusz Patyra (viol.) Warsaw Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, Jan Lewtak (dir.) | LRF 101


 * List, Donald Martino, Debussy, Scriabin - HaeSun Paik | UMKAPELL 89


 * Henryk M. Górecki Symphony No. 3 of Sorrowful Songs, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, Henryk M. Górecki (cond.), Zofia Kielanowicz (sopr.) | LRF BD 101 NCK (Blu-ray)


 * F. Chopin, Songs, Ewa Izykowska (sopr.), Wojciech Switala (piano) | LRF BD 102 NCK (Blu-ray)Cello, Subliminal Blues & Greens | d’Note Classics DND 1011