awards and distinctions

 

  • 2023 "Dyplom złoty" in the 3rd International Competition "Muzyczne Orły" for Mieczysław Wajnberg - Complete String Quartets box
  • 2022 "Fryderyk" for the Album of the year - larger ensembles (Mieczysław Wajnberg: String Quartets vol. 5)
  • 2020  nomination for the „Cegła z Gazety” prize 
  • 2019 "Gloria Artis" golden medal for merits for culture
  • 2019 BBC Music Magazine nomination (Bacewicz: Piano Quintets, Violin Quartet, Cello Quartet)
  • 2019 "Fryderyk" award for the best Polish music recording (Piano Quintets, Violin Quartet, Cello Quartet)
  • 2019 nomination for the „Cegła z Gazety” prize
  • 2018 nomiation for the Koryfeusz Muzyki Polskiej prize
  • 2018 „Fryderyk" w kategorii album roku muzyka kameralna (Mieczysław Wajnberg: String Quartet no. 7 + Piano Quintet)
  • 2017 Gramphone Classical Music Awards (Bacewicz: Complete String Quartets) 
  • 2017 „Fryderyk” za najwybitniejsze nagranie muzyki polskiej oraz za Najlepszy album polski za granicą (Bacewicz: Complete String Quartets) 
  • 2015 Medal of the Witold Lutosławski Music Society on the occasion of the100th anniversary of the patron’s birth
  • 2012 Medal on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the opening of the Secondary Music School in Katowice
  • 2008 Medal for Merit to Polish Culture - Gloria Artis
  • 2008 Bestenliste der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik 03/2008! Zeitgenössische Musik Helena Tulve: ECM New Series 1955
  • 2008 Stanisław Ligoń Award of Katowice Radio
  • 2006 Album of the Year 2005 of the Hi Fi Muzyka magazine for the Republique featuring the works of Grzegorz Ciechowski
  • 2006 Hanysy 2006 Award - Ruda Śląska
  • 2005 Fryderyk Award for the best chamber music album of 2004, featuring works by Ernest Chausson
  • 2004 Honorary Gold Badge for Services to the Silesia Province
  • 2002 Silver Wing Award for years of outstanding artistic service in promotion of Tarnowskie Góry
  • 2002 Orpheus Award at the 45th Warsaw Autumn Festival for the performance of Witold Szalonek’s Symphony of Rituals
  • 2001 Medal on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Warsaw Philharmonic
  • 1999 Gold Cross of Merit awarded by the President of Poland
  • 1998 Fryderyk Award for the best chamber music album of 1997 (Szymanowski, Lutosławski)
  • 1998 Distinguished Cultural Service Award – Minister of Culture and Art
  • 1998 Medal of the Karol Szymanowski Music Society – for promoting the composer’s works
  • 1998 Arts Award of the Mayor of Tarnowskie Góry
  • 1998 Album of the Year of the Studio magazine (Karol Szymanowski’s and Witold Lutosławski’s string quartets)
  • 1996 Fryderyk Award for the best chamber music album of 1995 (Henryk Mikołaj Górecki’s string quartets)
  • 1994 Polish Composers’ Union Award
  • 1992 Arts Award of the Mayor of Katowice
  • 1990 Stanisław Wyspiański Award for Young Artists
  • 1988 UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers in Paris – for its recording of quartets by Eugeniusz Knapik and Aleksander Lasoń
  • 1988 Arts Award of the Mayor of Katowice
  • 1984 UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers in Paris – for its recording of quartets by Eugeniusz Knapik and Aleksander Lasoń
  • 1984 Award at the 18th Polish Piano Music Festival in Słupsk
  • 1979 Award at the Contemporary Music Competition in Krakow

 

  • Medal on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the opening of the Secondary Music School in Katowice
  • Medal for Merit to Polish Culture - Gloria Artis
  • Stanisław Ligoń Award of Katowice Radio
  • Hanysy 2006 Award - Ruda Śląska
  • Fryderyk Award for the best chamber music album of 2004, featuring works by Ernest Chausson
  • Honorary Gold Badge for Services to the Silesia Province
  • Silver Wing Award for years of outstanding artistic service in promotion of Tarnowskie Góry
  • Orpheus Award at the 45th Warsaw Autumn Festival for the performance of Witold Szalonek’s Symphony of Rituals
  • Orpheus Award at the 45th Warsaw Autumn Festival for the performance of Witold Szalonek’s Symphony of Rituals
  • Medal on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Warsaw Philharmonic
  • Gold Cross of Merit awarded by the President of Poland
  • Distinguished Cultural Service Award – Minister of Culture and Art
  • Fryderyk Award for the best chamber music album of 1995 (Henryk Mikołaj Górecki’s string quartets)
  • Arts Award of the Mayor of Katowice
  • Stanisław Wyspiański Award for Young Artists
  • Award at the 18th Polish Piano Music Festival in Słupsk
  • Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2017 (Bacewicz: Complete String Quartets)

News

29 April 2024

The album Eugeniusz Knapik – Chamber Works with a Fryderyk prize!

We are pleased and proud to announce that the Eugeniusz Knapik – Chamber Works album has been awarded a Fryderyk prize in the Album of the Year Chamber Music - Large Ensembles category. ...  

Concerts

08 June 2024

Katowice, NOSPR, 8.06.2024

Masterpieces with a Polish counterpoint