Double bass player, graduate of prof. Czesław Ząbek class at the Academy of Music in Cracow. He continued his studies with Michael Wolf, now a professor at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin.
The variety of musical interests resulted in cooperation with outstanding representatives of various styles in music. He performed in a trio with flutist Jadwiga Kotnowska alongside such guitarists as Leszek Potasiński and Waldemar Gromolak. As a lover and promoter of Astor Piazzolla's music, he founded the Tango Bridge quintet, which has performed with pianist Waldemar Malicki for many years. In concerts and performances of Argentine tango, he performed with leading bandoneonists (Daniel Binelli, J.J. Mossalini Junior, Christian Gerber, Wiesław Prządka, Klaudiusz Baran and Piotr Kopietz). He also co-created music projects with Vadim Brodski, Leszek Możdżer, Mikołaj Trzaska, Jose Torres and Jorgos Skolias. As a soloist and chamber musician, he performed all over Europe, England, the United States and Japan. In 2004, he founded the Piazzoforte string quintet, whose album with the music of Astor Piazzolla and the participation of pianist Kevin Kenner was awarded the 2006 Fryderyk Award for the best chamber music album. In the years 2006‒2014, the artist was the music director of the Tango Piazzolla performance at the Teatr im. Juliusz Słowacki in Krakow. In the years 1990-2016 he was a double bass player in the chamber orchestra Capella Cracoviensis. The artist has performed with leading historical performance chamber ensembles: Casals quartet, Quarteto Mosaiques and London Baroque. The album recorded at Trio Basso was nominated for the Fryderyk 2021 award. Currently, the artist collaborates with the Morphing Chamber Orchestra. The orchestra's album featuring the world-famous soprano Aleksandra Kurzak won the Fryderyk 2021 award for the best Polish album abroad. Grzegorz Frankowski is also active in teaching. His students are winners of leading Polish double bass competitions. As a lecturer, he regularly conducts workshops and master classes. He is the author of the textbook for learning to play the double bass "The Double Bass School - Mini, Midi, Maxi" and "Classical Music Hits " in transcription for double bass and piano.

Jacek Ropski began his violin education under Józef Błaszczok. Between 2001 and 2003 he was a violin student of professor Antje Weithaas at the Universität der Künste in Berlin. From 2003 he was a violin student of professor Bartosz Bryła at the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław from where he graduated in 2005. In 2008 he received a Doctor of Arts degree as a result of a doctoral program in which, in its final phase, he performed the complete cycle of 24 Caprices op. 1 by Niccolò Paganini.
He has been a laureate of national and international violin competitions in Katowice, Sosnowiec, Wrocław, Kraków, Elbląg, Poznań and Warsaw, Poland, and Saint Petersburg, Russia.
His greatest achievements are, among others:
• 3rd prize and special prize for the best performance of a 20th century piece in the 3rd International Pyotr Tchaikovsky Competition for young musicians in Saint Petersburg, Russia
• 1st prize in the National Auditions for violin and viola students in Elbląg, Poland
• 3rd prize and an award given by the Henryk Wieniawski Society in the 6th Zdzisław Jahnke National Violin Competition in Poznań, Poland
• 1st distinction (6th prize) in the 2nd Tadeusz Wroński International Solo Violin Competition in Warsaw, Poland.
Having passed qualification auditions, he took part in the Competition of Music Performances in Geneva, the Georg Kulenkampff Competition in Cologne, the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels and the Niccolò Paganini Competition in Genoa. He was the finalist of the Max Rostal Competition in Berlin and semi-finalist of the Henryk Wieniawski Competition in Poznań. As a recipient of multiple scholarships, he received scholarships from the Polish Ministry of Culture and Art and the National Foundation for Children and was a laureate of a prize awarded by the President of Gliwice and the Plebiscite for the Person of the Year of the Gliwice Soil. As a soloist he has performed in renowned festivals, both in Poland and abroad, such as the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Kammermusik Podium Braunschweig, Henryk Wieniawski Days in Szczawno-Zdrój and Masters of Violinism in Zielona Góra. He has performed with the orchestral accompaniment of the philharmonic orchestras of Cracow, Zabrze, Zielona Góra, Szczecin, Hamburger Symphoniker, Symphonieorchester Bern, Gliwice and Racibórz Chamber Orchestras, Kammerorchester Hannover, Chamber Orchestra of the Philharmony in Kirovograd, and the Student European Symphonic Orchestra. With the last one, under the baton of Maestro Marek Pijarowski, he performed the Violin Concerto in A-major op. 8 by Mieczysław Karłowicz in the main concert halls of the National Forum of Music in Wrocław and the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, in the framework of the European Capital of Culture – Wrocław 2016. At the request of the 2nd channel of the Polish Radio, he recorded Concerto in D-major op. 35 by Pyotr Tchaikovsky with the Polish Radio Orchestra under Andrzej Straszyński. He has also recorded a CD with music by Polish composers, Paderewski/Gąsieniec/Stolpe, which was published in 2016 by Wratislavia Productions.
Jacek Ropski plays on a 18th century violin.

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