Award-winning cellist Ignacy Gaydamovich is an active soloist, recitalist, teacher,

chamber musician, researcher, and a recording artist enjoying performing from a

historically informed perspective. From recent engagements, Dr. Gaydamovich
performed Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto No. 1 with Manchester Symphony
Orchestra. His latest CD recorded with his father, Janusz, features unpublished
cello works by Lukas Foss and cello works by Schumann and Schubert.

Dr. Gaydamovich regularly performs in Europe, Lebanon, Japan, and the United
States and is a recipient of multiple awards from Austrian, American, and Polish
institutions. In 2012 he gave the Albanian premiere of the Korngold Cello Concerto
with the National Radio and Tv Orchestra of Albania in Tirana. As an advocate for
new music, he gave the American premiere of Cellotronicum for cello and
computer by Michal Talma-Sutt, commissioned and premiered a solo work by
Alexander Barsov and appeared on a crossover CD Cosmospir. He is a founding
member of the Atlas Piano Trio and the principal cellist of the Boston Chamber
Orchestra. He collaborated with pianists Vyacheslav Gryaznov, Janusz Grzelazka,
Judith Gordon, Jiayan Sun, Mohamed Shams, Cihan Yücel, and Rasa Vitkauskaite;
with violinists Arkady Fomin, Fernando Vizcayno, and Gary Capozziello; as well as
with cellists Jesus Castro-Balbi and Christopher Adkins.

A passionate teacher and organizer, Dr. Gaydamovich has been a frequent guest at
the Conservatory Music in the Mountains in Durango, Colorado. He presented
masterclasses at the first middle-east orchestra program in Beirut, as well as at
festivals in Japan, Poland, Lithuania, and at several American colleges and schools.
He served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Crane School of Music at SUNY
Potsdam and was on the cello faculty at the Texas Christian University and Mount
Holyoke College, and is the director of Amherst Arts Academy. Currently, he is on
the faculty at Indian Hill Music School and works with underprivileged youth at the
El Sistema inspired program in Western Massachusetts.

Dr. Gaydamovich was born into an artistic family and spent his formative years in
Poland studying piano, cello, and composition. There he also devoted his time as a
music director of the Dzien Smierci Mozarta theater and produced a play for light
and shadow after Britten's Suite No. 1. After winning several prizes at international
competitions in Austria and Poland, he moved to the United States to continue his
graduate studies. There his interests expanded to include conducting.

In addition to performance and pedagogical work Dr. Gaydamovich is the author of

a dissertation about Alfred Schnittke's Cello Sonata No. 1, and cello method Beyond
the Octave that expands upon the work of Janos Starker, and has lectured on
historically informed performance practices relating to the classical cello
repertoire. In his spare time, he likes to make arrangements and transcriptions.
Thanks to Chabner Family Foundation Gaydamovich is playing on a modern copy of
an Amati The King 1566 cello made by Wojciech Topa and on gut strings with a
variety of bows.

Dr. Gaydamovich has received degrees from F. Chopin Music Academy, Texas
Christian University, Boston Conservatory, Longy School of Music, and the
doctorate from the University of Hartford. He has studied with Terry King, Jesús
Castro-Balbi, Rhonda Rider, Andrzej Bauer, and Kazimierz Michalik.
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