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Founder and spiritus movens
of LA MORRA. He specializes in performance on Medieval and Renaissance
instruments of the lute family.
He received classical guitar training in his native
Poland, but eventually abandoned the guitar in order to focus on
early plucked instruments.
His earliest professional experiences with 'early
music' include an anthology
of late Renaissance 'Polish' lute music, recorded in 1997, but
released six years later and voted Early Music Release of the Year
2003 by the Polish Recording Producers' Association.
Based since 1997 in Basel, he graduated from the
Schola
Cantorum Basiliensis, where he studied Renaissance lute (with
Hopkinson
Smith) and medieval plucked instruments (with Crawford Young).
With LA MORRA claiming most of his time and energy,
he nevertheless finds room for other projects and has appeared as
accompanist and continuo player with various singers and ensembles
(including Jordi Savall's La Capella Reial de Cataluña).
As a soloist, he is primarily interested in exploring
neglected repertoire for Renaissance lute. A release of music from
fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century German keyboard and lute
sources (recorded together with Corina
Marti) appeared in May 2008.
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IN 2008, APART FROM APPEARANCES
WITH LA MORRA, MICHAL CAN BE HEARD ON THE FOLLOWING DATES: |
January