Krzysztof Wegrzyn was born in 1953 in Gdansk/Poland.
He began playing the violin at an early age, and studied with Zenon
Brzewski and Irena Dubiska in Warsaw, Wolfgang Marschner in Freiburg and Yfrah Neaman
in London.
He was a laureate in renowned international competiotions (Spohr, Montreal) and
won the Szymanowski and Lipizer competitions.
His concert activities have taken him around the world and he has made numerous recordings
for radio, television and CD’s as well. Since 1993 he has been a professor at the
Hannover Music Academy and holds master classes in Europe, the United States and in Asia.
He has been a juror at such esteemed competitions as the Tchaikowski/Moscow,
Kreisler/Vienna, ARD/Munich and Paganini, Sarasate, Mozart and Stradivari, among others.
In addition, he has been active in chamber music for years, for example as a founding member of the New Warsaw Piano Quintett.
Since 1995 he has directed the Gdansk International Violin Seminars and the Gdansk
Spring Music Festival.
Krzysztof Wegrzyn is the founder and Artistic Director of the Hannover International
Violin Competition dedicated to Joseph Joachim.
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