Andrzej Grygier is a first-prize winner at many prestigious guitar competitions, including the Michele Pittaluga Guitar Competition in Alessandria, the Baltimore International Guitar Competition, Forum Gitarre Wien, and the Silesian Guitar Autumn in Tychy. He has also won prizes at renowned competitions and festivals across Europe, including Weimar, Gorizia, Kutná Hora, Zagreb, Budapest, Stuttgart, Tallinn, and Louisville.
He has performed as a soloist with leading orchestras under the baton of conductors such as Ilya Gajsin, Georg Köhler, Nicolas Milton, Roberto Zarpellon, Jonathan Darlington, Maciej Tomasiewicz, Marek Moś, Miłosz Kula, and Anna Sułkowska-Migoń. His solo recitals have been presented at music festivals in Russia, Slovakia, Germany, Romania, Spain, Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Belgium, France, Italy, and the United States.
In 2022, he was recognized by The Acoustic Guitar Magazine as a rising star of the classical guitar.
He has participated in masterclasses led by eminent artists, including Manuel Barrueco, Zoran Dukić, Hubert Käppel, Carlo Marchione, Pepe Romero, Marco Tamayo, Judicaël Perroy, and many others.
In 2025, he released two albums: Guitar Triptychs, published by DUX Recording Producers, and Sonatas, published by Contrastes Records.
He received his musical education at the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań. In 2022, he graduated with honors with a Master’s degree from the class of Prof. Łukasz Kuropaczewski, and in 2025, completed his Bachelor’s degree at the Faculty of Jazz Music in the class of Dawid Kostka. He also developed his skills in early music under the guidance of Prof. Henryk Kasperczak and Maciej Kończak, as well as at the Segovia Guitar Academy in Pordenone under Prof. Paolo Pegoraro. Currently, he is a PhD student at the Doctoral School of Contemporary Musical Performance in Poznań.
Andrzej Grygier is a D’Addario brand artist and plays a SAERS Masterworks guitar.
For more information, visit the artist’s website HERE.