Jarosław Thiel
Artistic Director of Wrocław Baroque Orchestra. A graduate of the Poznań School of Talents, he studied cello at the Music Academies in Poznań and Łódź. Since 1997 he has focused mainly on historical performance. Jarosław Thiel participated in master classes run by Christine Kypranides at the Dresdner Akademie für Alte Musik and completed post-graduate studies in Baroque cello at the Universität der Künste in Berlin, working with Phoebe Carrai and Markus a Möllenbeck (diploma with distinction). He has collaborated with the most important Polish ensembles of early music. Since 2000 Thiel is the first cellist with the Dresdner Barockorchester and a member of the FestspielOrchester Göttingen led by Laurence Cummings. He also works with other leading German ensembles, such as Cantus Cölln, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and Lautten Compagney. He regularly performs as a soloist and chamber musician, apperaig at numerous Polish and international festivals of early music. He teaches Baroque cello at the Academy of Music in Poznań and during the Summer Academy of Early Music in Lidzbark Warmiński, Poland. In 2006 he was appointed artistic director of the Wrocław Baroque Orchestra.