I want to say how pleased I am considering the fact that International Young Violinist Meetings will take place in beautiful scenery of Plock.

These kind of meetings are the best way to exchange experience, knowledge and making new contacts and friendships among future artists of violin art.

Music is one of the most beautiful and the most valuable human achievements and it's universal language makes people of different countries closer.

I hope every participant will make a great performance and will guard memorable impressions from Poland.

Prof. Mirosław Ławrynowicz (16.VI.1947 – 6.IV.2005)

Mirosław Ławrynowicz comes of family with music traditions. He completed with distinction his violin studies in Z. Brzewski class of Public Higher Music School in Warsaw and then was continuing his violin education from J. Fournier and W. Marschner. He is also a graduate of Musicology Section of Warsaw University.

He is an owner of many prizes of: International Contemporary Music Contest in Rotterdam (1973), International Music Contest in Munich (1975), International Young Musicians Stage in Paris (1980), International Music Contest in Belgrade (1982).

In the year of 1987 he got a Minister of Foreign Affairs diploma for prominent credits in propagating polish culture abroad.

He was performing a chamber music and as a soloist in Poland, Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Spain, The Netherlands, Jugoslavia, Cuba, Hungary, Sweden, Italy, Germany and USA.

He did a lot of archival recordings in Finland, The Netherlands, Germany, France and for II Station of Polish Radio and also many recordings on disc in Poland and The Netherlands.

He also worked on publishing activity preparing compositions of K. Lipiński and H. Wieniawski to come out in print.

Besides his concert activity he was a teacher. From the year of 1975 he passed all degrees of pedagogical career in Warsaw Music Academy and in 1997 he got a full professor degree.

He also conducted music courses in Poland and abroad – in Kloster–Schöntal and Goch (Germany), for students of Montclair University in New Jersey (USA), for students from Japan in Warsaw Music Academy.

Since 1993 year he has been an artistic and educational director of International Music Courses in Łańcut and artistic manager of Artistic Workshops in Zakopane.

Mirosław Ławrynowicz was a juror of many music contest – International Groblicz Family Violin Contest in Cracow, S. Serwaczyński Young Violonists Contest in Lublin, International Violin Contest in Kloster– Schöntal, International K. Szymanowski Contest in Łódź.

He was a member of Programme Council PWM in Cracow and a member of Publishing Board of Artistic Education Centre. Since 1994 year he has been a President of Polish Section of International Stringed Instruments Playing Teachers Society.