Antoni Wrona

Born in 2003, cellist, soloist and chamber musician, and a student at the Kronberg Academy under Prof. Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt. In 2026 he became a scholarship holder of the Gautier Capuçon Foundation, the Rafał Brzoska Foundation and Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.
Among his distinctions, he is a First Prize winner at the 15th Michał Spisak International Music Competition (2025), a Second Prize winner at the 22nd Kiejstut Bacewicz International Chamber Music Competition in Łódź, in a duo with Aleksandra Janusz (2025), a Third Prize winner at the 12th Witold Lutosławski International Cello Competition in Warsaw (2024), the winner of the 11th Dezyderiusz Danczowski National Cello Competition in Poznań (2023), and of the 12th Jan Vychytil International Cello Competition in Prague (2018).
He has been nominated for the „Coryphaeus of Polish Music 2024” award in the Discovery of the Year category and for the „Polityka Passports” 2025 in the Classical Music category. He is currently working on three albums, one of them a Deutsche Grammophon release of Philip Glass's music, in whose recording he takes part.
He has performed in concert halls such as the National Philharmonic (Warsaw), NOSPR, the National Forum of Music in Wrocław, Merkin Hall in New York and Salle Cortot in Paris. He has collaborated with the ensembles of the National Philharmonic, NOSPR, the Silesian Philharmonic, the NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra and other symphony orchestras in Poland. He has shared the stage with such personalities as Andrey Boreyko, Sélim Mazari, Alexander Sitkovetsky, Marek Moś, Michał Klauza, Szymon Bywalec, Katarzyna Budnik and Jakub Jakowicz.
Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben enables him to play an exceptional instrument built by Giovanni Battista Grancino around 1700 in Milan. From October 2026 he studies with Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt at Kronberg Academy, funded by the Verena und Andreas Zimmer/Michaela Happel-Patronage.