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Biography of Prof. Marcin Baranowski A violinist and a teacher. He was born in Poznan, where he studied violin with Prof. Jadwiga Kaliszewska at the I.J. Paderewski Academy of Music, graduating with honours in 1985. A recognised chamber musician – member of the Collegium Musicorum Posnaniensium Early Music Ensemble for ten years. For 24 years he performed with one of the best orchestras in Europe, the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Agnieszka Duczmal. Prof. Marcin Baranowski participated in a large number of recording projects and toured nearly the whole world giving concerts in majority of European countries and in the USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, Kuwait and Taiwan. In 1994 he made prestigious recordings with the New Polish String Quartet for Sem Gramophone in Korea. Prof. Marcin Baranowski is an outstanding teacher and a lecturer at schools of music in Poznan and Bydgoszcz. In 1992 he started teaching at the elite Music School in Poznan, the so called “Talents’ School”, contributing to the success of the Polish school of violin. Prof. Marcin Baranowski leads a number of master classes ( Lancut, Busko-Zdroj, Zagan, Przemysl, Zakopane, Pulawy, Niemojow, Marianowka, Kozlowka, Hanower, Graz, Rostock) His students (Anna Maria Staskiewicz, Dominika Falger, Anna Reszniak, Aleksandra Januszajtis, Aleksandra Tomasinska, Lena Zeliszewska, Bartosz Woroch, Linda Jankowska, Aleksandra Rytwinska, Audrey Massaka, Joanna Kreft, Maxima Sitarz, Adam Siebers, Stanislaw Podemski ) win prizes at prestigious violin competitions in Poland and abroad: the Henryk Wieniawski Competition in Poznan, the Karol Szymanowski Competition in Lodz, the Tibor Varga Competition in Sion, the Competition in Kloster Schontal, the L. Spohr Competition in Weimar, Rahn Musikpreis in Zurich, the Pablo Sarasate Competition in Pamplona, the J. Joachim Competition in Hannover, the Michael Hill Competition in Auckland.