Piotr Buczek (violin) was born in Chorzow, Poland. He was a founding member of the Penderecki String Quartet, which since 1991 is quartet in residence at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo (Ontario, Canada). Mr.Buczek began violin studies at the age of eight. In 1986, he graduated from the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music, receiving a Diploma of Art with special distinction.

In 1986, Mr. Buczek left Poland to continue his music education in the United States. In 1986-88 he was assistant to Ralph Evans of the Fine Arts Quartet at the Chamber Music Institute in Milwaukee, where he received his Master Degree and took master classes with Pinchas Zukerman, Yo Yo Ma, Ursula Oppens, Shlomo Mintz, and others. Later, at the University of Maryland, he worked with Daniel Heifetz, and Arnold Steinhardt and John Dalley of the Guarneri Quartet. He also studied with Roman Totenberg at Boston University.

Mr. Buczek has performed throughout Europe, Asia, and the Americas with the Penderecki Quartet and as soloist and chamber musician. His discography includes eleven CD’s with the Penderecki Quartet. His chamber music partners have been: pianists Janina Fialkowska, Lev Natochenny, Jamie Parker, cellist Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, violinist Martin Beaver, clarinetist James Campbell, Fine Arts and St. Lawrence String Quartets, Gryphon Trio and many others. He is frequently heard on CBC Radio. In the fall of 1993 he performed a North American premiere of Krzysztof Penderecki String Trio in Kosciuszko Foundation in New York City. In 1995 he has appeared as a soloist with Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra during Takefu Music Festival in Japan.

Mr. Buczek performs solo recitals, teaches and takes an active part in the musical life of Boston as a member of Boston Modern Orchestra Project, South Coast Chamber Music Society, Decompression Chamber Music and others.