Born on February 1, 1974, in Szczecin, northwestern Poland, Nizioł started to play the violin at the age of five. He graduated with honours from the Music Academy in the western Polish city of Poznań, where he studied under Jadwiga Kaliszewska.
He has won several prestigious music competitions, including those in Poznań, Adelaide, Pretoria, Brussels and Paris.
Nizioł has received four Fryderyk Awards of the Polish recording industry for CDs featuring works by Henryk Wieniawski, Grażyna Bacewicz, Karol Lipiński and Eugene Ysaye.
He has performed as a soloist with many renowned orchestras--such as the Warsaw Philharmonic, Sinfonia Varsovia, the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, the Tonhalle Zurich, the English Chamber Orchestra, and the London Symphony--and appeared in prestigious venues, such as the Salle Pleyel in Paris, the Barbican Centre in London, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Suntory Hall in Tokyo, and the Konzerthaus in Vienna.
A resident of Switzerland since 1995, Nizioł served as the leader of the Tonhalle Orchestra from 1997 to 2003, and since 2003 he has led the orchestra of the Zurich Opera. He is also highly regarded as a chamber musician.
He sat on the jury of the International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition in Poznań in 2006 and 2011. He is a professor at the Hochschule der Künste in Berne.
Nizioł plays a Giuseppe Guarnerius del Gesù instrument dating from 1727.
On the eve of his 50th birthday, a CD entitled Szymanowski Reimagined was released by the Warsaw Philharmonic. The album contains Karol Szymanowski’s Etude in B flat minor, Op. 4 No. 3 in an arrangement by Grzegorz Fitelberg, Mythes, Op. 30 arranged by Willem Strietman, and Masques, Op. 34 in a symphonic version by Jan Krenz--performed by Nizioł and the Warsaw Philharmonic under Andrzej Boreyko.
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