Krzysztof Bąkowski, born in Warsaw, Poland, on November 28, 1961, is a Polish
violinist specializing in contemporary music. He studied at the Warsaw Music
Academy until 1983 and under Tadeusz Wroński and Josef Gingold at Indiana
University Bloomington from 1984 to 1986, winning first prize at the Tadeusz
Wroński Violin Competition in 1990. In 1985, Bąkowski premiered Hanna Kulenty's
work Martwa natura ze skrzypcami, and went on to premiere compositions by
Tadeusz Wielecki, Jerzy Kornowicz, Zygmunt Krauze, Aleksander Lasoń, Paweł
Szymański, Andrzej Dziadek, Andrzej Dutkiewicz, and...