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Marcin Zdunik

Television premiere broadcast of the composition "Passion Oratorio. Bitter lamentations" for two choirs, soloists and 

April 3,  TVP 1 (17.25), TVP Kultura (16.25), TVP Polonia (18.10), TVP 3 (22.30)

 

Polish cellist, soloist and chamber musician. His repertoire ranges from renaissance to contemporary music, he improvises, composes and performs his own arrangements.
Marcin Zdunik has been invited to perform at prestigious festivals – The BBC Proms Festival in London, Progetto Martha Argerich in Lugano and Chopin and his Europe in Warsaw.

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Upcoming events

  • Opole Philharmonic - 19 June, 2026 19:00

    with the Symphony Orchestra of Opole Philharmonic under the baton of Jakub Chrenowicz

    • Antonin Dvorak - Cello Concerto in H minor Op. 104

  • Kielce (Poland), Voivodeship Culture Center - 28 June, 2026 18:00

    with Paweł Wakarecy (piano)

    • Frederic Chopin - Introduction and Polonaise brillante C major Op. 3 for piano and cello
    • Frederic Chopin - Mazurka Op. 7 No. 1
    • Frederic Chopin - Nocturnes

  • Otwock Wielki, Palace (Poland) - 31 July, 2026 18:00

    with AUKSO - Chamber Orchestra of the City of Tychy under the baton of Marek Moś

    • Joseph Haydn - Concerto in C major, Hob VIIb/1
    • Krzysztof Komeda/Marcin Zdunik - Suite for improvising cello and orchestra

  • Warsaw (Poland), Targowa street 50/52 - 8 August, 2026 18:00

    with Iwo Jedynecki and Hubert Giziewski (accordeon)

    • Mieczysław Weinberg - Jidisze lider
    • Gustav Mahler - Kindertotenlieder

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Discography

Stunning instrumental technique, virtuoso charm and admirable diversity of interests distinguish this young artist.
Adam Suprynowicz
Paszporty Polityki 2009
Dębicz and Zdunik’s sensitive Bach chorale transcriptions have been punctuated with their own improvisatory responses to them, and the emotional and stylistic directions these have taken often carry us off to surprisingly profound new musical waters
Charlotte Gardner
Gramophone
www.gramophone.co.uk
The final concert aroused the strongest emotions, presenting a great 20th-century repertoire. The evening, and perhaps the whole festival culminated in the performance of The Protecting Veil by John Tavener, featuring young, outstanding cellist Marcin Zdunik as a soloist. His instrumental singing depicting the tears of Mary (...) had a real artistic and spiritual depth.
Monika Partyk
Ruch Muzyczny 10/2014
(...) fantastic cellist Marcin Zdunik evoked the greatest admiration
Józef Kański
Ruch Muzyczny 10/2014
18-year old Pole Marcin Zdunik fully charmed the audience at the prizewinners concert. With Luigi Boccherini's Sonata he celebrated a firework of virtuosity, projecting a beautiful, warm and tender sound. He is a poet of the cello.
E. von Reinhold
(...) the most beautifully singing cello by Marcin Zdunik stood out, which made many episodes of the Concerto appear in a completely new light. Zdunik is undoubtedly one of the greatest talents among our young cellists (...)
Józef Kański
Ruch Muzyczny, 12.07.2009
Marcin Zdunik's version of the Paganini Caprices 13-24 for violin and cello is sensational: an independent, witty and equally virtuosic cello part turns the supposedly well-known pieces into a completely new, impressive musical experience:
Stringtime NiederRhein, August 2007
He treated his instrument as a medium capable of expressing the dramatic complexity of the musical and human world.
Małgorzata Komorowska
Ruch Muzyczny
His interpretations were always rhetorically refined, with perfect intonation. Fascinating is how easily he realizes his musical ideas, how luminously and tenderly can he cooperate with his cello.
Dominik Połoński
Ruch Muzyczny, 2007
Marcin Zdunik surely deserves the prize for the most beautiful sound in Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations, as well as that for the greatest sound fantasy, deep musical maturity and superb technique.
Julia Gaß
Ruhr Nachrichen 13. 10.2008
Young cellist with phenomenal sensitivity, musical imagination and technical abilities. He is not merely a performer, but a creative artist, presenting frequently his own, masterful transcriptions and compositions (splendid arrangement of Paganini's Caprices, Bach Violin Sonatas and M.Ravel's pieces). Winner of many international competitions and a star of concert halls around the world. His playing is full of beauty, wisdom, and - what is he most important - truth.
Adrianna Ginał
Paszporty Polityki 2009
Both the performance and the arrangement of Paganini's 15 Caprices (no. 9-24) deserves an applause. Marcin Zdunik turned out to be not only a superb virtuoso of the cello, but also an equally sensitive composer with unlimited creativity. His Paganini Caprices are sometimes completely new compositions (...)
Stanisław Olędzki
Ruch Muzyczny, February 2008