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Michał Ćwiżewicz
Acclaimed Polish-British violinist, Michal Cwizewicz performs as a soloist and chamber musician, and is teaching at the Royal College of Music as Assistant Professor to Itzhak Rashkovksy.

Performing frequently in the UK and abroad, Michal Cwizewicz’s playing has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 as well as Polish national radio and television. As a recitalist and chamber musician he has performed in the UK, across Europe and as far afield as Kuwait. Co-founder of the ATMA-duo with John Paul Ekins and award-winning Cremona Piano Trio he also leads the Kallisto Quartet, currently under the guidance of the Ysaÿe Quartet in Paris and Günter Pichler of the Alban Berg Quartet. Described in Music-Web-International as “masterly and lyrical”, Bob Briggs wrote of Michal’s performance of the Szymanowski Violin Concerto “one could believe that one was listening to a fiddler at the very top of his profession, not someone setting out on the threshold of what could be a major career.” Concerto performances have taken him across Europe to Spain, France, the Czech Republic, Germany and Poland including London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, Cadogan Hall and St John’s, Smith Square.

British-born Michal’s violin lessons began at the age of three with Lisette Meguerditchian at the Alexandria Conservatoire in Egypt before continuing in London with teachers Judith Smith, Krzysztof Smietana and Itzhak Rashkovsky. Prior to his postgraduate studies at the Royal College of Music, he studied at Imperial College London for four years and in 2007 was awarded Masters in Aeronautical Engineering. In 2011 he was presented to Her Majesty the Queen at the Young Performers Reception at Buckingham Palace.