Danowicz, Christian
graduated from of the Conservatoire in Toulouse (violin class of Gilles Colliard) and the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music (MA in the violin classes of Julia and Krzysztof Jakowicz and BA in the orchestra and opera conducting classes of Antoni Wit and Tomasz Bugaj). He obtained a doctoral and postdoctoral degree from the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław, where he currently heads the violin class. He is the winner of the 3rd Prize in the 4th International Tadeusz Wroński Competition for Solo Violin in Warsaw. In 2010, he won the 1st Prize in the Chamber Music Competition at the Duxbury Music Festival in the USA. In 2016, he was the winner of the Emotions Award of Radio Wrocław Kultura. Recorded under his direction together with the NFM Orchestra Leopoldinum and Atom String Quartet, the CDs Made in Poland and Supernova won the 2018 and 2019 Fryderyk Awards, the former also receiving the Wrocław Music Prize in 2018. Christian Danowicz is the concertmaster of the NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra, with which he regularly performs as a soloist and conductor. Since 2018, he has taught violin at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw.