Bartłomiej "Bartek" Nizioł (born 1 February 1974) is a Polish violinist playing in a bel canto style.
[3] Seven years later (in 1993), Niziol graduated with honour from the Academy of Music in Poznań to continue his study in Lausanne under Pierre Amoyal.
Besides his regular studies, he took part in several master classes where he worked with such musicians as Zakhar Bron, Mauricio Fuks, Ruggiero Ricci and Michael Frischenschlager.
He has collaborated with many famous conductors: Yehudi Menuhin, Jan Krenz, Marek Janowski, David Zinman, Heinrich Schiff, Grzegorz Nowak, Jacek Kaspszyk, Wojciech Michniewski, Andrey Boreyko, Yoav Talmi, Philippe Entremont.
Niziol has participated in music festivals, the most important being: MIDEM in Cannes (where his interpretation of Wieniawski’s Violin Concerto No.
Niziol has also collaborated with the renowned film music composer Vladimir Cosma (performing his “Concerto de Berlin”).
As we can read on the site of the Henryk Wieniawski Musical Society of Poznań, "assisted by a group of domestic and international consultants, as well as the Board of the Wieniawski Society of Poznań, Konstanty Andrzej Kulka, one of the most illustrious Polish musical artists prepared the competition.
With Wanda Wilkomirska and Bartlomiej Niziol, who represent two very different generations of the Competition’s laureates, and eight other international violin luminaries, he looked for young virtuosos most worthy of the Wieniawski 2006 laurel".
Between the 13 and 19 July 2009, Niziol served as lecturer and artistic director of the first MasterClass edition in Piła (in Poland) - the "masterly review of musical personalities", including the violin, the alto, the cello & the double bass.
[9] The other professors were Michel Willi (Switzerland), David Greenlees (Great Britain), Alexander Neustroev (Russia) & Dariusz Mizera (Poland).
When recording his debut solo CD for DUX (Polish label), he played a Giovanni Paolo Maggini violin (1996).
Today Niziol plays as a soloist, as concertmaster of the Zurich opera house orchestra, and the first violinist of two quartets.
[10] In the Daily Telegraph we could read about this interpretation: "(...) There is something exhilarating about a musician who takes risks, within the stylistic orbit of the music he is playing.
It was a fascinating performance, full of colour and light and tonal variety, breadth and command, and he showed every sign of developing into a violinist of exceptional stature (...)".