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Cracow Guitar Quartet

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An ensemble Cracow Guitar Quartet was founded in 2006 and is composed of artists who are bound with Cracow: Milosz Maczynski, Joanna Baran-Nosiadek, Lukasz Dobrowolski and Mateusz Puter. The ensemble has been involved in implementing many music projects both in Poland and abroad and has been performing at the most prestigious guitar music festivals. The quartet has been conducting master classes for young virtuosos of classical guitar and has also been recording for Polish Radio and TV (including live in concert recording in the studio of the Polish Radio in Katowice).

The ensemble is a winner of many international competitions: 1st prize – 12th International Guitar Competition 2009 – Ile de Ré (France); 1st prize – International Moscow Music Competition 2020 – Moscow (Russia); 1st prize – 5th Danubia Talents International Music Competition 2020 – Budapest (Hungary); 1st prize – The Muse – International Competition 2021 – Athens (Greece); Grand Prix – 5th International Master Competition for Music Teachers 2017 – Warsaw (Poland); 2nd prize – 94 Concours International Léopold Bellan 2020 – Paris (France); 3rd prize – 15th Altamira Gorizia International Guitar Competition 2018 – Gorizia (Italy).

Cracow Guitar Quartet has been performed for among others: International Guitar Festival - Ile de Re (France), International Festival - Nuits Romanes (France), International Festival Ivana Ballu - Dolný Kubín (Slovakia), International Guitar Festival - Modra (Slovakia), Konzertreihe Gerlando im Hirsvogelsaal - Nürnberg (Germany), Gitarrenfestival in der KlangMannufaktur - Hof (Germany), St Giles' Cathedral - Edinburgh (Great Britain), International Guitar Festival - Polish Guitar Academy in Poznan, International Guitar Festival GITARA + in Wrocław, Czeslaw Drozdziewicz International Guitar Festival in Krynica, International Guitar Festival - Lubuskie Spotkania Gitarowe In Zielona Góra, International Festival of Organ and Chamber Music - Wygiełzów-Lipowiec, International Festival The Pearl of Baroque - Masters' Concerts, International Festival "World Music" in Polanica Zdrój, International Festival of Young Laureates of Music Competitions "Silesia", International Music Festival in Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, Music in Bielany - Festival of Chamber Music in Warsaw, Festival Orawa Guitar Days, Festival Jan Nepomucen Bobrowicz Days in Krakow, Biecz Music Summer - Festival of Organ and Chamber Music, Festival Muzyka w zabytkowych kościołach i wnętrzach Księstwa Nyskiego, Festival of Organ and Chamber Music in Częstochowa, Barbican Music Festival, Lutheran Festival of Chamber and Organ Music - Music on the Royal Route, Summer Festival Muzyka nad Zdrojami in Szczawnica. In 2019 the ensemble officially represented Poland at the special concert of Cracow Guitar Quartet at St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh. At present the Cracow Guitar Quartet is regarded as an outstanding Polish ensemble in classical guitar.

In 2010 the CM Records published the CD of the quartet "From Ballet to Tango" demonstrating the beauty and richness of dance music spreading over from the Renaissance to modernity, bridging the gap between Europe and South America, spanning a vast body of work, from masterpieces to enchanting folk-based compositions, all the being performed in the new intriguing sound of four classical guitars.