Jan Stanienda (22 January 1953 – 22 September 2021[1]) was a Polish violinist, chamber musician and concertmaster.
Stanienda was a graduate of the Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, where he studied with Krzysztof Jakowicz [pl].
Since 1975, Jan Stanienda had been a member of the Polish Chamber Orchestra under Jerzy Maksymiuk, and in 1977 he became its concertmaster and soloist.
He performed with many distinguished musicians, such as Yehudi Menuhin, Maurice André, Michala Petri, Wanda Wiłkomirska, Krzysztof Jakowicz, János Starker, Barbara Hendricks, Maurice Bourge, Lidia Grzanka-Urbaniak, Guy Touvron, Andrei Gridchuk, Grzegorz Nowak, Tadeusz Wojciechowski and Krzysztof Jabłoński.
He gave concerts at Carnegie Hall in New York City, Berliner Philharmonie, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid, Barbican Centre and Royal Albert Hall in London (BBC Proms), Santa Cecilia in Rome and many others.