Career Highlights
Grzegorz Grzeszczyk is one of the few representatives of the younger generation of bass clarinet players in Europe. He devoted his musical life to specialize in bass clarinet. To achieve this he decided to study bass clarinet in Rotterdam with prof. Henri Bok. Mr. Grzeszczyk received his Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from the Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk, Poland in the clarinet class of prof. Bogdan Ocieszak and as. Andrzej Wojciechowski.
Grzegorz Grzeszczyk began to play bass clarinet in secondary music school and very quickly he started being recognized on the Polish clarinet scene as one of the first young Polish bass clarinet solo players. During his academic years he won many prizes in competitions and clarinet festivals including:
– 2nd prize in the clarinet ensemble category at the 2nd Clarinet Festival in Szczecin, Poland (2006)
– Special Prize in the soloist category at the 3rd Clarinet Festival in Szczecin, Poland (2008)
– 3rd prize in the clarinet ensemble category and a Special Prize in the soloist category at the 8th Clarinet Festival in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland (2009)
– Special Prize in the soloist category and 2nd prize in the clarinet ensemble category at the 4th Clarinet Festival in Szczecin, Poland (2010)
– 3rd prize in the soloist category and 2nd prize in the clarinet ensemble category at the 9th Clarinet Festival in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland (2011)
– 1st prize in the clarinet ensemble category at the 5th Clarinet Festival in Szczecin, Poland (2012)
– 3rd Prize at the first Bass clarinet competition in Avila, Spain (2012).
Mr. Grzeszczyk worked with many symphonic orchestras playing the bass clarinet: Symphony Orchestra of India (Mumbai), Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra (Gdansk), Baltic Opera (Gdansk), Wojciech Rajski Chamber Orchestra, Polish Philharmonic Orchestra in Kalisz just to name a few. He also worked with a great Polish jazz trumpet player Piotr Wojtasik in his project “Circle” (concerts in Berlin, Paris, Warsaw) and also with a Polish jazz pianist and composer Nikola Kolodziejczyk in his “Chord Nation” project, and “Barok Progresywny” project. In 2015 The Chord Nation CD was awarded a prestigious Fryderyk music award for recording debut of the year in the jazz category and in 2016 Barok Progresywny was awarded the Fryderyk for Jazz album of the year.
Since November 2012 Grzegorz Grzeszczyk is the clarinet and bass clarinet instructor at the College of Music, Mahidol University in Thailand and the bass clarinetist of the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra.
Education
2010 – Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music (Poland) – Bachelor of Music, Major Clarinet and Bass Clarinet
2012 – Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music (Poland) – Master of Music, Major Clarinet and Bass Clarinet
