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Jakub Waszczeniuk

trumpet

He was born in Dębno. He graduated with honors from the Secondary Music School in Gorzow in the trumpet class of Włodzimierz Kozłowski, MA. He is a graduate of Prof. Igor Cecocho's trumpet class at the Academy of Music in Wroclaw (diploma with honors).

In 2005, as a fourth-year student, he joined the Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra, where he holds the position of first trumpet soloist.  Since then, he has given several hundred concerts with Sinfonia Varsovia, performing in the world's most prestigious halls. He has also given numerous concerts as a soloist, including with Sinfonia Varsovia, the Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra, the Lodz Philharmonic Orchestra and the Lower Silesia Philharmonic Orchestra.

In July 2006, he appeared as a soloist at the inaugural concert of the Chopin and his Europe festival. At that time, together with Martha Argerich and the Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra under Alexander Rabinowich-Barakowsky, he performed Shostakovich's Second Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and String Orchestra, Op. 35.

He collaborates with orchestras: Sinfonietta Cracovia, Leopoldinum, Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra, Lodz Philharmonic Orchestra, Beethoven Academy Orchestra.

In addition to classical music, the artist also performs popular music. He collaborates with the Zygmunt Kukla and Tomek Szymusia entertainment orchestras and Krzysztof Herdzin's big band as lead trumpet. He has performed with such artists as Zbigniew Namysłowski, Ania Szarmach, Frank McComb, Ryszard Rynkowski, Adam Sztaba, Grażyna Łobaszewska and Lora Szafran.