Polish Cello Quartet was founded in 2011 by the graduates of Lódz and Katowice conservatoires, who continued their studies in, among others, Brussels, Cologne and Mannheim. The only ensemble of this kind in Poland and one of few of this class in Europe.Since 2014 PCQ is a resident ensemble of the National Forum of Music in Wroclaw. It is a regular guest at Wroclaw festivals: Wratislavia Cantans, Musica Electronica Nova and Jazztopad, as well as appearing at the Internationaal Kamermuziekfestival Schiermonnikoog in the Netherlands; Music Masters on Air (MusMA), i.e. the platform for European festivals presenting new directions in contemporary music, and the Poznan Chamber Music Festival Q’arto Mondi.

The four young virtuosos have one goal: to put the cello quartet in one line with other chamber ensembles embedded in tradition and well established on stage. To accomplish this, they wander several paths, however sticking to the principle of building their repertoire of pieces written originally for a cello quartet by composers familiar with the specifics of this instrument, its technical and expressive capacity, and above all with its ‘rhetorical’ potential in the partnership of chamber playing.