Poland's Lutoslawski Quartet has emerged as one of the leading champions of the chamber music of its homeland. They have also pursued collaborations with jazz musicians, unusual anywhere, but especially in Eastern Europe. The Lutoslawski Quartet was founded in 2007. The group quickly gained attention for its recordings, releasing the first collection of their namesake Witold Lutoslawski's complete chamber music with Krzysztof Jakowicz and Andrzej Bauer, and earning a Fryderyk Award nomination in 2009. Their solo debut featured quartets by Karol Szymanowski, Dmitry Shostakovich, and Marcin Markowicz. The Lutoslawski Quartet has also performed widely at European festivals, in Berlin, Brussels and Ghent in Belgium, Sofia, several Greek cities, and Ankara, as well as around Poland. A 2013 Asian tour took them to the Hong Kong Arts Festival as well as to Tokyo, Singapore, and Hangzhou and Beijing in China. The quartet's jazz collaborators have included Kenny Wheeler, John Taylor, Benoît Delbecq, and Uri Caine. They have also collaborated with other classical artists in a wide variety of media, giving concerts with the Royal String Quartet as well as with conductor Jacek Kaspszyk in a performance of the concertos for string quartet and orchestra by Martinu and Schoenberg, and with Katarzyna Zdybel in works for quartet and bassoon. Releasing a pair of albums by Grazyna Bacewicz on the Naxos label, they have focused more closely on Polish music in the 2010s. In 2017 they released a recording of the String Quartet No. 4 of Marcin Markowicz (the group's second violinist) and of Andrzej Kwiecinski's [P|PE(s)] on the NFM label. They have announced plans to record more Polish music in the later 2010s. In addition to Markowicz, the other members are Bartosz Woroch (first violin), Artur Rozmyslowicz (viola), and Maciej Mlodawski (cello). The quartet has an ongoing residency at the National Forum of Music in Wroclaw, Poland. ~ James Manheim