2011 Violin Faculty

TADEUSZ GADZINA studied violin with Zenon Bakowski at the State Higher School of Music in Warsaw. Since 1975-76 he has continued his studies with Yehudi Menuhin and Yfram Neamen at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. He is a laureate of the following competitions: the International Sibelius Competition in Helsinki (1970), the International Paganini Violin Competition in Genoa (1971), and the International Wieniawski Competition in Poznan (1972). In 1973 Tadeusz Gadzina won the gold medal at the International Laureates' Festival in Plewen (Bulgaria), and a year later at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. Since 1967 he has been a member of the Wilanów Quartet. He is a professor at the Academy of Music in Warsaw. Since 2002 he has tutored as "professor in residence" masterclasses in Morningside Music Bridge in Calgary, Canada.