Photo: Agnieszka Szenrok
Tomasz Lisiecki
Born in Bydgoszcz, he started playing the cello at the age of 7. He graduated cum laude from the A. Rubinstein State Music High School in Bydgoszcz in Prof. Agata Jarecka’s class. In 1999, he graduated cum laude from the I. J. Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań in the class of Prof. Stanisław Pokorski. Upon graduation, Tomasz Lisiecki continued studies under Prof. Kazimierz Michalik in Warsaw, moreover improving his skills during courses led by Roman Jabłoński, Zara Nelsova, and Viktoria Yagling.
Between 2003 and 2005, he studied in the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin in the baroque cello class of Markus Möllenbeck and Phoebe Carrai. The artist also learnt performing old music through participating in master classes at the Internationale Händel Akademie in Karlsruhe (led by Phoebe Carrai) and with Jaap ter Linden.
In 2012, Tomasz Lisiecki earned his PhD in the Arts on the basis of a thesis dedicated to the chamber compositions of F. Chopin and X. Scharwenka. Since 1999, he has been leading a cello class at the Academy of Music in Poznań. In the academic year of 2022/2023 he taught as visting professor in Conservatorio C. Monteverdi in Bolzano.
Tomasz Lisiecki belongs to the group of cellists who perform romantic, contemporary, and old music. He gives concerts with numerous ensembles and orchestras in Poland and abroad (Germany, France, Spain, Japan, China, Indonesia).
Parallel to his artistic projects and concerts, Tomasz Lisiecki carries out a wide range of pedagogical acivities. His students have won numerous national and international cello competitions. He led master classes at The Krzysztof Penderecki European Centre for Muzic in Lusławice, the Summer Academy of Music in Żagań, master cello courses in Szamotuły, Madrid and Young Musicians’ Summer Academy in Debrecen (Hungary).
In 2006 and 2010, he was awarded the Prize of the Mayor of Poznań for teaching excellence, and in 2018, the Medal of The Commission of National Education for his special contribution to education and upbringing.
