Wojciech Kamionka, a horn player.

In December 2011 he began his teaching career at the Academy of Music in Kraków at the post of lecturer in French horn playing and Chamber Music. He graduated with the First-Class Honours from the Academy of Music, where he was mentored by professor Kazimierz Pamuła. At the same time he received his Diploma from Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe, Germany, where from 2002 and 2007 he had the opportunity to be a student of one of the world’s most distinguished horn players, professor Will Sanders, who was a soloist of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Bayreuth Festival Orchestra. The training resulted in gaining the ability to play not only the baroque and natural horn, but also the descant horn and Wagner tuba.

In the academic year of 2007/8 he was mastering his techniques at Maastricht Academy of Music in the Netherlands, where he took part in the Master of Music Programme, again as a student of Will Sanders. Moreover, he was a keen participant of various master courses for horn players in Poland, Germany, Austria, the USA, which were conducted inter alia by Radovan Vlatkovic, Dale Clevenger, Marie-Luise Neunecker, Erich Penzel, Wolfgang Gaag, Christian Lampert, Peter Damm and Michael Höltzel.

The great influence on his training had his first teacher Mariusz Ziętek and also Jacek Muzyk and Zdzisław Stolarczyk.

In February 2002 he came to Houston, USA, in order to be tutored by the top class horn player William VerMeulen. He also had the opportunity to observe the work of professor VerMeulen with one of the most outstanding students of French horn in the USA.

In 2011 he was awarded his Doctor of Musical Arts degree.

A finalist of Polish music competitions.

Repeatedly awarded with the scholarship by the Polish Ministry of Culture. He was also granted a scholarship by the President of the City of Kraków. A scholarship-fellow of Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst.

Several times he gave a soloist performance with the orchestra. In 2001/2002, before leaving for Germany, he played as a solo horn player with the Capella Cracoviensis chamber orchestra.

He co-operates with a variety of symphonic orchestras, such as Krakow Philharmonic, Radio Symphony Orchestra in Krakow, Bachsolisten Munich, Beethoven Academy Orchestra, Krakow Opera, with which he participated in concerts in the most excellent concert halls in Poland and abroad: Philharmonic Hall Cologne, Herkulessall in Munich, Royal Philharmonic Oslo, Alte Oper in Frankfurt, Gewandhaus in Leipzig, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Royce Hall in Los Angeles, Tonhalle in Zürich, Kongresszentrum in Lucerne, State Kremlin Palace Concert Hall, Konzerthaus in Berlin, Beethovenhaale in Bonn, Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden, Musikhalle in Hamburg.

Moreover, he was playing first horn part in the orchestra courses in Idyllwild, USA; Playstein, Germany and also in Bayreuth, where he played the Wagner tuba.

Since 2008 he has been teaching French horn in the Bronisław Rutkowski School of Music.

He speaks fluently German and English and has a good command of Russian and Spanish.

Wojciech Kamionka is also a member of International Horn Society.