Bartosz Bryła is a Polish violinist and professor of violin class at the I.J. Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań. He began studying the violin at the age of six under the direction of Professor Adam Nowak at the State Secondary Music School in Wrocław, with whom he studied until receiving his diploma at the State Secondary Music School in Wrocław in 1979. He then went on to study at the Staatliche Hochschule fur Musik in Freiburg, in the class of Professor Wolfgang Marschner, which he continued at the Academy of Music in Poznań, in the class of Professor Jadwiga Kaliszewska, until obtaining his diploma with honors in 1983.
Bryła is a winner of the National Competition for Young Violinists in Lublin (1978); a laureate of the 8th Henryk Wieniawski International Violin Competition in Poznań (1981), the L. Spohr International Violin Competition in Freiburg (1982), and the International Chamber Music Competition in Colmar (1986). He has given concerts throughout Europe and in Cuba, China, Japan, USA, Canada, Mexico, as well as the United Arab Emirates and Lebanon.
His artistic output includes recordings made for various Polish and foreign phonographic companies, such as Polskie Nagrania, Wifon, Poljazz-Classik, Emscherland Classik (Germany), Selene (world premiere recording of Józef Wieniawski’s Violin Sonata with pianist Andrzej Tatarski), EMG Victor (Japan) (participation in recordings of the complete works of Fryderyk Chopin).
He is a member of the jury of national and international violin, chamber music, and violin-making competitions in Lublin, Gdańsk, Warsaw, Poznań, Wrocław, Zell an der Pram (Austria), Brescia (Italy), and Hinterzarten (Germany), to name just a few.
