Tomasz Hajda - brass section - (Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra - NOSPR)
Tomasz Hajda – trombone

Born in 1983, he is the first trombonist of the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice and one of the leading Polish trombone players. He took his first trombone lesson at the age of 14.

In 2007 he graduated from the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław in the trombone class of Michał Mazurkiewicz. He is a laureate of many awards at international solo and chamber music competitions, including in Warsaw, Katowice, Dąbrowa Górnicza and Gdańsk. He has performed as a soloist with many orchestras in Poland.

He has made archival recordings of the Sonatine and Concerto for trombone and orchestra by Kazimierz Serocki, as well as the Concerto for trombone by Witold Friemann with the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra. He is an active chamber musician, performing with the Sinfonia Varsovia Brass and the Polish Brass Quintet.

Since 2008, he has been a lecturer of trombone and chamber music at the Academy of Music in Wrocław, where in 2019 he obtained a postdoctoral degree in musical arts.