In Michal Gondko’s “deft and fluid” (Early Music Today) lute playing “phrases come across like extempore thoughts chasing each other across the imagination, an effect many try for but very few succeed” (Lute News). One of the leading lutenists of his generation, he pursues his artistic goals as a soloist, musical director and accompanist, being particularly fascinated with European polyphonic art music of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Passion for it prompted him in 2000 to found the ensemble La Morra. A sought-after soloist, he has also shared the stage with such musicians as Dame Emma Kirkby and Jordi Savall. More recent collaborations include a duo partnership with the eminent lutenist Nigel North. His musical path began in his hometown Warsaw, where he studied classical guitar. He subsequently graduated from the acclaimed Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (Basel, Switzerland), where he studied lute with Hopkinson Smith. Concert tours have since taken him to the most European countries, as well as to the USA, the countries of the Middle East, China and Japan.