Michal Nagy
He has performed at numerous music festivals (including Warsaw Autumn, Carintischer Sommer, Menuhin Festival Gstaad, Allegro Vivo, Styriarte, Kwartesencja, Silesian Guitar Autumn, Nuevo Mundo, Astor Piazzolla Music Festival in Krakow, Gitarre Wien, Wrocław Guitar Festival, Music on the Heights, Emanations).
As a soloist, he has collaborated with the following orchestras: the Warsaw National Philharmonic, the Krakow Philharmonic, Leopoldinum, Sinfonietta Cracovia, the Wrocław Chamber Orchestra Vratislavia, Concerto Avenna, Capella Bydgostiensis, Camerata Nova, Fresco Sonare and the Chopin Academia Orchestra. He has also performed with the National Philharmonic Chamber Soloists, the Royal String Quartet, the AUKSO quartet and the Wiener Instrumentalsolisten ensemble, as well as a member of the New Tango Bridge and New Art Ensemble ensemble. He is also a co-founder and member of the international guitar quartet Guitar 4mation, which specialises in performances of 20th and 21st century music, including repertoire from the borderline between contemporary music and jazz. He is also a member of the Hirundo Maris ensemble, founded by Arianna Savall and Petter Udland Johansen (recordings: Il Viaggio d'Amore, 2015, The Wind Rose, 2017, Poésie et musique, 2021).
Michał Nagy has also performed in duets with guitarist Marcin Siatkowski, violinist Paweł Wajrak, bandoneonist Klaudiusz Baran and oboist Arkadiusz Krupa, with whom he recorded Domenico Scarlatti's sonatas in his own arrangement for oboe and guitar (released by the GAP Artistic Agency, 2015). He has also performed with Lilianna Stawarz, Janusz Wawrowski, Robert Kabara and Waldemar Malicki.
In 2020, Michał Nagy released a solo album entitled Fughetta, featuring Paweł Szymański's title composition dedicated to him, as well as works by B. Britten, S. Gubaidulina and A. Tansman. The album was nominated for the Fryderyk 2021 Phonographic Academy Award.
M. Nagy has premiered works by Sergi Assad, Paweł Szymański, Gunter Schneider, Bartłomiej Budzyński and Stefan Soewandi, among others.
M. Nagy has also made recordings for Polish Radio and Television, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Radio Suisse Romane and ZDF. He is also the author of numerous arrangements for solo guitar and chamber ensembles. He has collaborated with the Polish Music publishing house and the Euterpe publishing house.
He has recorded for companies such as Sony Music (Fryderyk Award 2002 for the album Piazzolla Tango in the Album of the Year - Chamber Music category, together with K. Baran), Dux (Fryderyk Award nomination in 2000 for the album Micropiezas in a duet with M. Siatkowski), Polskie Nagrania Edition, Outhere and Gramola Vienna ( pulse.sound.joy.heart. , Sonada de Alma, Trans4mation - Guitar 4mation). His latest recording, Centenario (2021), is a tribute to Astor Piazzolla on the 100th anniversary of his birth and includes, among others, the Double Concerto for Bandoneon and Guitar Hommage à Liège. The album has been nominated for the Fryderyk 2022 award.
He was born in Warsaw. He studied at the F. Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw and the Vienna Conservatory. His teachers were Janusz Raczyński, Marcin Zalewski, Ryszard Bałauszko and Heinz Wallisch. He is a laureate of international guitar competitions in Fiuggi, Gdańsk, Kraków and Tychy. He has twice been a scholarship holder of the Culture Foundation. He is a laureate of the Małopolska Province's 'Ars Quaerendi' award and the Minister of Culture and National Heritage's 'Meritorious for Polish Culture' badge, as well as the bronze 'Gloria Artis' medal.
Professor of musical art, lecturer at the Karol Penderecki Academy of Music in Krakow, since 2021 head of the Guitar and Harp Department at the AMKP. Since 2008, he has been the artistic director of the International Guitar Workshops and the Terra Artis Festival in Lanckorona.
Michał Nagy plays Mario Rosazza Ferraris and Petr Matoušek guitars and uses D'Addario strings.