Edward Zienkowski

Austria

Jury member

Violin studies with Oskar Ruppel, Stefan Herman, Andre Gertler  (Lublin, Gdansk, Hannover, Brussels) who were students of such famous virtuosos like Eugene Ysaye, Bronislaw Huberman and Jeno Hubay.

Numerous awards of international competitions like Wieniawski- Paganini- Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and Szigeti- Competition.

From 1979 — 1982  Mr. Zienkowski was member of the Berlin Philharmonic and leader of the “Philharmonia Quartett Berlin”.

In 1990 he was appointed professor at the Academy of Music in Cologne.

Concerts all over Europe, the US, Japan and Korea with famous orchestras like Berliner Philharmoniker, Halle Symphony Orchestra  Manchester, KBS Symphony Orchestra Seoul, Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra,  Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne,  and the National- Philharmonie Warsaw.

Since 1992 Mr. Zienkowski is Professor of a concert violin class at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, jury member of numerous international competitions as well as president of the Henryk Wieniawski Music Society in Lublin, where Wieniawski was born.

Edward Zienkowski received numerous honors like the Austrian Ehrenkreuz for Science and Art, Merite Culturel and the “Ehrenkreuz of the Polish  “Verdienstordens”.