Dariusz Bator, Part - Time Bassoon Instructor at The Karol
Lipinski Academy of Music in Wroclaw, Poland
and
Solo - Bassoon - Player at The Wroclaw Opera, Poland
Dariusz Bator was born in November 11th, 1974 in Lublin,
Poland. He started his education in his hometown with Grazyna Woc Kowalik
and Wieslaw Kapron. He graduated from Joseph Elsner High School of Music in
Warsaw with Artur Kasperek. Between 1994 and 1999 he studied at
The Fryderyk
Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw with Professor Bogumil Gadawski. In May
1999 he won First Place Award for Academic Bassoonist in Poland. In August
of the same year he left Poland to study at The Boston Conservatory in
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America with a full scholarship.
During his stay in Boston, Dariusz studied with Suzanne Nelsen - Bassoon
(Boston Symphony Orchestra) and David Ohanian - Chamber Music (Boston
Symphony Orchestra, Canadian Brass).
As a student of the third year at the Warsaw Academy of Music he took and
passed the audition to
The Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw and worked there
for six years as a second bassoonist and double bassoon - player. Between
1997 and 2002 was cooperating with the Polish Chamber Philharmonic conducted
by Wojciech Rajski. From March 2002 he is a member of
Philharmonic the
Nations Justus Frantz.
Dariusz Bator as an orchestral musician has made a lot of recordings for
Polish Radio and Television Co. He has worked with such important conductors
as: Wojciech Rajski, Grzegorz Nowak, Jacek Kaspszyk, Tadeusz Wojciechowski,
Agnieszka Duczmal, Justus Frantz, Enio Morricone, Michel Camen, and Maurice
Jarre. He has had concerts with musicians: Alexander Bunin, Nelson Goerner,
Krzysztof Jakowicz, Konstanty Andrzej Kulka, Piotr Paleczny, Isabelle
Moretti, and Daniel Muller - Scott. He has played in almost every important
concert hall in Europe, including: Philharmonic in Colon, Düsseldorf,
Nuremberg, Barcelona, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Istanbul, Athens, Ton Halle in
Zurichu, Schleswig - Holstein, Royal Festival Hall in London, Birmingham,
Dublin, Kiev, Vilnius.
Since October 2002 he has been playing for the Opera of Wroclaw, Poland as a
bassoon - player, since August 2004 as a solo bassoon - player.
Dariusz Bator has been studying since October 2003 Master Class of Professor
Czeslaw Klonowski at The Wroclaw Academy of Music.
Since 2004 Dariusz Bator is Part - Time Bassoon Instructor at
The Karol
Lipinski Academy of Music in Wroclaw (Poland).
