Tomash Tomashevsky (violin, Poland)
Tomsh Tomashevsky was born in 1951 in Shekhovits (Poland). He studied in Warsaw institute of music with professor T. Vronski and excellently graduated the study. Then he continued his education in the Leningrad conservatory with professor Gutnikov and in Freiburg with professor V. Marshner. He improved his skills at the courses with F. Druzhinin, O. Kruza, J. Furnir, E. Liberman, A. Hiller and H. Shering.
Being a member of the "Polish string quartet" he had long concert tour across Japan, Russia, Poland, Germany, Italy, France, Australia, having won a plenty of prizes (among them there was a musical competition on TV ARD in Munich, in 1975 - a musical competition in Belgrade, in 1977 - in Colmar). Simultaneously he performed as a leader of the "Polish Chamber Orchestra" with which as a soloist he gave concerts in many countries.
Since 1982 Tomash Tomashevsky has been the first leader of the German Opera in Berlin and since 1983 has been a professor in the Institute of Arts in Berlin.
Tomashevsky is the founder and the head of the chamber orchestra "Chamber soloists of the German opera in Berlin" which since 1988 have had intensive concert activity. Since 1988 he has also been the head of summer musical training courses in Glukholatsi with the support of the Polish Ministry of culture.
Tomashevsky is a best-selling soloist all over the world (concerts in Poland, Germany, Japan, China, the USA, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Norway and France). Numerous records on the radio and recording of compact discs testify to his mastery and his many-sided talent.