Maciej Burdzy

Born in Warsaw, he received his bachelor's degree with honors from the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw in the class of Julia Jakimowicz-Jakowicz (2011) and his master's degree with honors from the Royal Academy of Music in London (2014) in the class of Levon Chilingirian. He also honed his playing with Maxim Vengerov, Gyorgy Pauk, Krzysztof and Jakub Jakowicz, Bartłomiej Nizioł, Daniel Hope, Thomas Brandis, Igor Petruszewski and Clio Gould, among others. He was a recipient of scholarships from the Center for Art Education in Warsaw, Leverhulme Foundation, Oetker Foundation, Worswick Trust and Myerscough Trust.

 

He has received many awards including the D'Addario String Prize at the North London Festival, the Dorothy Kennedy Davis Award, the Thomas C Fitton Will Trust-Hovis Prize, for best string graduation recital at RAM, the Regency Award.

 

In 2013, he was selected for the LSO String Scheme in which he performed as a member of the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Hall under the direction of Valery Giergiev and Daniel Harding. He has repeatedly participated in orchestral projects at the Royal Academy of Music, almost always as concertmaster. He has collaborated with such artists as Christoph von Dohnanyi, Sir Mark Elder, Marin Alsop, Maxim Vengerov and Clio Gould. 

 

Maciej has been working in leading positions in European orchestras since 2015. First as second violin leader in the Bilbao Orchestra Sinfonikoa and Opernhaus Zurich, then as concertmaster in the Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz and since 2020 in the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester.

 

He plays a violin made for him in 2021 by Philipp Augustin.