Jaroslaw Lipski graduated from the Academy of Music in Warsaw, Poland, with a degree in classical guitar, and received a diploma from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, where he won the "Principle's Prize.”  He studied classical guitar with Gerald Lee and Robert Brightmore, and the lute with Nigel North at Guildhall and at the Summer Academy for Early Music at Innsbruck, Austria. Mr. Lipski has regularly appeared in concerts as solo guitarist in Poland and Great Britain and frequently participates in early music festivals in Poland as a lutenist. He has collaborated since 1996 with The Warsaw Chamber Opera, performing operas by Monteverdi (Vespro della Beata Vergine), St. Landi (Il St. Alessio), and Purcell (Dido and Aeneas). He has also worked with early music groups such as Ars Nova, Lege Artis, Collegio Antico, and The Peregrine Consort. His repertoire includes music of 16th century Poland, 16th & 17th-century England, and, in 2002, he founded the ensemble Concerto Vago. Mr. Lipski has regularly conducted master classes at the Zywiez Early Music Festival in Poland and he is the author of “The Classical Guitar” (Warsaw, Poland: Polskie Wydawnicwo Muzycznie, 2002).  His recordings include: 16th Century European Songs and Dances and Music of the Polish Renaissance (DUX Records) The Music of King Sigmund (Arche Records), Psalms of M. Gomloka (Polish Radio), and What Thing is Love  (Peregrine Records).