dr hab. Jacek Ropski

He began learning to play the violin under the guidance of Józef Błaszczok. From 2001 to 2003, he studied violin with Professor Antje Weithaas at the Berlin University of the Arts. From 2003, he studied with Professor Bartosz Bryła at the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław, graduating with honors in 2005. As a result of his doctoral thesis, during which he publicly performed the entire cycle of 24 Caprices, Op. 1 by Niccolò Paganini, he received his Doctor of Arts degree in 2008. He is a laureate of national and international violin competitions.

His greatest successes include:

- Third prize and a special prize for the best performance of a 20th-century work at the Third International Pyotr Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians in St. Petersburg,

- First prize at the National Violin and Viola Auditions in Elbląg,

- Third prize and the Henryk Wieniawski Music Society Award at the 6th Zdzisław Jahnke National Violin Competition in Poznań,

- First prize (sixth place) at the 2nd Tadeusz Wroński International Solo Violin Competition in Warsaw.

He participated in the Geneva Music Competition, the Georg Kulenkampff Competition in Cologne, the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, and the Niccolò Paganini Competition in Genoa. He was also a finalist in the Max Rostal Competition in Berlin and a semi-finalist in the Henryk Wieniawski Competition in Poznań. He is a multiple scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture and Art, the National Children's Fund, winner of the Mayor of Gliwice Award and the Gliwice Region Man of the Year Poll. As a soloist, he has performed at 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 Violin in Zielona Góra. He has performed with the Krakow, Zabrze, Zielona Góra, and Szczecin Philharmonic Orchestras, the Hamburger Symphoniker, the Symphonieorchester Bern, the Gliwice and Racibórz Chamber Orchestras, the Kammerorchester Hannover, the Kirovograd Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, and the European Student Symphony Orchestra. For Polish Radio Program II, he recorded Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35, accompanied by the Polish Radio Orchestra conducted by Andrzej Straszyński, and in 2016, Wratislavia Productions released his CD with music by Polish composers Paderewski / Gąsieniec / Stolpe.

For the Polish Music Publishing House, he arranged the violin parts in compositions by Fryderyk Chopin, Antoni Stolpe, Witold Lutosławski, and Mirosław Gąsieniec, whose Sonata for Violin and Piano is dedicated to him. He is the author of an arrangement of Johann Sebastian Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin – the first printed arrangement of this work since the publication of Professor Tadeusz Wroński's work in 1969. Since 2017, he has been a doctor habilitated in arts and an assistant professor at the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław. In the 2021/2022 academic year, he worked as a professor at the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz.

He plays an 18th-century instrument.