The double bassist Bartosz Sikorski was born in 1974 in Bytom, Poland. From 1996 to 2002 he studied at the University of the Arts in Berlin with Michael Wolf and Klaus Stoll. In 1996 he held a scholarship at the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic.
Since 2000 he has been a double bassist in the Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, and since 2003 he has been a member of the Vienna Philharmonic.
Alongside his activities in opera and concert repertory he also regularly works on chamber music and solo projects. He was a member of the first Austrian double bass quartet, Circus Bassissimus.
Alongside his career in music, Bartosz Sikorski studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with Erwin Bohatsch from 2006 to 2012, graduating with distinction. He works at the intersection of painting, objects, moving images, sound and installation. His art is rooted in the deep connection between music and fine arts. Since 2012, he has run Atelier Suterena in Vienna, an independent venue for contemporary music and art.
