awards and distinctions

2023 "Dyplom złoty" in the 3rd International Competition "Muzyczne Orły" for Mieczysław Wajnberg - Complete String Quartets box
2022 "Fryderyk" for the Album of the year - larger ensembles (Mieczysław Wajnberg: String Quartets vol. 5)
2020 nomination for the „Cegła z Gazety” prize
2019 "Gloria Artis" golden medal for merits for culture
2019 BBC Music Magazine nomination (Bacewicz: Piano Quintets, Violin Quartet, Cello Quartet)
2019 "Fryderyk" award for the best Polish music recording (Piano Quintets, Violin Quartet, Cello Quartet)
2019 nomination for the „Cegła z Gazety” prize
2018 nomiation for the Koryfeusz Muzyki Polskiej prize
2018 „Fryderyk" w kategorii album roku muzyka kameralna (Mieczysław Wajnberg: String Quartet no. 7 + Piano Quintet)
2017 Gramphone Classical Music Awards (Bacewicz: Complete String Quartets)
2017 „Fryderyk” za najwybitniejsze nagranie muzyki polskiej oraz za Najlepszy album polski za granicą (Bacewicz: Complete String Quartets)
2015 Medal of the Witold Lutosławski Music Society on the occasion of the100th anniversary of the patron’s birth
2012 Medal on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the opening of the Secondary Music School in Katowice
2008 Medal for Merit to Polish Culture - Gloria Artis
2008 Bestenliste der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik 03/2008! Zeitgenössische Musik Helena Tulve: ECM New Series 1955
2008 Stanisław Ligoń Award of Katowice Radio
2006 Album of the Year 2005 of the Hi Fi Muzyka magazine for the Republique featuring the works of Grzegorz Ciechowski
2006 Hanysy 2006 Award - Ruda Śląska
2005 Fryderyk Award for the best chamber music album of 2004, featuring works by Ernest Chausson
2004 Honorary Gold Badge for Services to the Silesia Province
2002 Silver Wing Award for years of outstanding artistic service in promotion of Tarnowskie Góry
2002 Orpheus Award at the 45th Warsaw Autumn Festival for the performance of Witold Szalonek’s Symphony of Rituals
2001 Medal on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Warsaw Philharmonic
1999 Gold Cross of Merit awarded by the President of Poland
1998 Fryderyk Award for the best chamber music album of 1997 (Szymanowski, Lutosławski)
1998 Distinguished Cultural Service Award – Minister of Culture and Art
1998 Medal of the Karol Szymanowski Music Society – for promoting the composer’s works
1998 Arts Award of the Mayor of Tarnowskie Góry
1998 Album of the Year of the Studio magazine (Karol Szymanowski’s and Witold Lutosławski’s string quartets)
1996 Fryderyk Award for the best chamber music album of 1995 (Henryk Mikołaj Górecki’s string quartets)
1994 Polish Composers’ Union Award
1992 Arts Award of the Mayor of Katowice
1990 Stanisław Wyspiański Award for Young Artists
1988 UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers in Paris – for its recording of quartets by Eugeniusz Knapik and Aleksander Lasoń
1988 Arts Award of the Mayor of Katowice
1984 UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers in Paris – for its recording of quartets by Eugeniusz Knapik and Aleksander Lasoń
1984 Award at the 18th Polish Piano Music Festival in Słupsk
1979 Award at the Contemporary Music Competition in Krakow