Krzysztof Wegrzyn was born in 1953 in Gdansk/Poland.

He began playing the violin at an early age, and studied with Zenon Brzewski

and Irena Dubiska in Warsaw, Wolfgang Marschner in Freiburg and Yfrah Neaman

in London. He was a laureate in renowned international competitions (Spohr, Montreal) and won the Szymanowski and Lipizer Competitions.

His concert activities have taken him around the world and he has made numerous recordings for radio, television and CD. In addition to the classical standard repertoire, he often performs works of contemporary composers like Lutoslawski, Ligeti, Schnittke, Nono, Pärt , Maderna und Penderecki.

He has served as concertmaster of the Hanover State Opera and Philharmonic Orchestra for many years and since 1993 is Professor at the University of Music and Drama Hanover and holds master classes in Europe (Scuola di Musica di Fiesole), the United States (Juilliard School, Aspen Music Festival) and in Asia (Korean National University of Art s, Hida-Takayama Music Festival). Many of his students have won prizes in international competitions . In addition, he has been active in chamber music for years, for example as a founding member of the New Warsaw Piano Quintett.

He has been a juror at such esteemed violin and chamber music competitions as the Tchaikovski/Moscow, Kreisler/Vienna, ARD/Munich, Paganini/Genova and Osaka Chamber Music Competition , among others.

He lives in Germany in Hanover but returns regularly to Poland, where he gives master classes and directs the Gdansk International Violin Seminars and the Gdansk Spring Music Festival.

Krzysztof Wegrzyn is the founder and Art istic Director of the Hannover International Violin Competition dedicated to Joseph Joachim

He plays a venezian violin of Domenico Montagnana.