Piotr Plawner
Piotr Plawner is one of Poland's most acclaimed contemporary violinists. With a strong presence in both Poland and western Europe, he has specialized in the music of Polish composers, often performing neglected works.
Plawner was born in 1974 in Lodz and took up the violin at six. By nine, he had performed a concerto with a symphony orchestra. Plawner studied at the State Secondary School of Music in Lodz with Iwona Wojciechowska, then moved on to the Lodz Music Academy, where he worked with Zenon Ploszaj. Earning a Henryk Szeryng Scholarship from the foundation in Monaco named for the great Polish violinist, he was able to travel to Bern, Switzerland, and enroll in master classes with Igor Ozim. Plawner won several key prizes in the early 1990s, including the International Festival of Young Talents in Bayreuth and the International Wieniawski Competition in Poznan in 1991, and, most prestigiously, the International Music Competition of the ARD in Munich, Germany, in 1995. He has performed widely as a concerto soloist in such top venues as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Herkulessaal in Munich, and the Tivoli in Copenhagen, appearing with a variety of top European orchestras, and often participating in radio and television concerts in various European countries. He founded the Subito Ensemble string quartet, which has specialized in Polish music, and since 2006, he has been the first violinist of the quartet I Salonisti. With that group, he participated in the internationally acclaimed Music in Theresienstadt theater production.
Plawner performs a wide variety of music, but both in performance and on recordings, he has specialized in Polish music, often performing music by lesser-known composers such as Mieczyslaw Karlowicz, Emile Mlynarski, and Mikołaj Górecki, as well as the more famous names. He has recorded, among others, for the Dux, Naxos, and Hänssler labels, recording the violin sonatas of Grazyna Bacewicz for the latter in 2006, as well as the album Polish Miniatures there in 2018. In 2020, Plawner released an album of music by Philip Glass, including the Violin Concerto No. 2, on Naxos.
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Discography
10 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Glass: Violin Concerto No. 2 "The American Four Seasons" & Violin Sonata
Piotr Plawner, Bern Chamber Orchestra, Gerardo Vila, Philippe Bach
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 24 jan. 2020
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Polish Violin Concertos (Bacewicz, Tansman, Spisak, Panufnik)
Piotr Plawner, Kammersymphonie Berlin, Jurgen Bruns
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 8 jul. 2016
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Mikołaj Górecki: Works for String Orchestra
Piotr Plawner, Jean-Marc Fessard, Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Roman Widaszek, Wojciech Rajski
Klassiek - Released by DUX on 27 aug. 2013
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
BACEWICZ: Sonatas for Violin and Piano
Kamermuziek - Released by SWR Classic on 1 jan. 2006
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Młynarski: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
Piotr Plawner, Paweł Przytocki, Arthur Rubinstein Philharmonic Orchestra in Łódź
Klassiek - Released by DUX Recording Producers on 3 apr. 2020
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Szymanowski: Violin and Piano Works, Vol. 2
Klassiek - Released by DUX on 26 feb. 2008
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Concertos pour violon n°1 & n°2
Piotr Plawner, Bartłomiej Nizioł, Sinfonia Varsovia, Grzegorz Nowak
Klassiek - Released by CD Accord on 3 mei 2011
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Polish Miniatures
Piotr Plawner, Piotr Sałajczyk
Kamermuziek - Released by haenssler CLASSIC on 17 aug. 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Concertos pour violon n°1 & n°2 (Henryk Wieniawski)
Klassiek - Released by CD Accord on 3 mei 2011
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Szymanowski: Violin and Piano Works
Piotr Plawner, Waldemar Malicki
Kamermuziek - Released by DUX on 1 jan. 2002
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo