After having already won 17 first prizes in competitions around the world, Polish guitarist Marcin Dylla received his most recent win in 2007 at the Guitar Foundation of America International Competition, which earned him a 50 concert tour of the United States, Canada, and Mexico.  His list of accolades also includes concerto competition wins, audience prizes and critics awards.

Marcin Dylla has graced the stage of distinguished concert halls across the globe including Konzerthaus, Musikverein and Palais Lobkovitz in Vienna (Austria), Auditorio Nacional and Auditorio Conde Duque in Madrid (Spain), St. Petersburg Philharmonic Hall (Russian Federation), Kleinhans Music Hall in Buffalo (USA), Villa Hügel in Essen (Germany) and the Palazzina Liberty in Milan (Italy).

In addition to being invited to perform in virtually every major European and North American guitar festival, Marcin Dylla has been regularly invited to appear at international music festivals including Festival Internazionale Settimane Musicali di Stresa (Italy), Don Quijote Music Festival (Paris, France), Burghofspiele Eltville (Germany), International Festival Musical Olympus (St. Petersburg, Russian Federation), Inverno Musicale (Alzano, Italy), Central European Music Festival (Zilinai, Lithuania), Festival Internacional de Música (Toledo, Italy) and Musique Dans la Rue (Aix-en-Provence, France). In February 2007 Marcin performed as a soloist with the Hermitage State Orchestra at the Hermitage Festival in St. Petersburg.

In 2006, Marcin Dylla received the singular honor of being selected by Cecilia Rodrigo, the daughter of renowned Spanish composer Joaquin Rodrigo, to perform one of her father’s newly discovered works at the Reina Sofia Museum of Modern Art in Madrid.

In September and October of 2007 he toured the United States performing Rodrigo’s ‘Concierto de Aranjuez’ in a number of concerts with the Fort Collins Symphony, the Acadiana Symphony Orchestra.  He has also performed with various other orchestras in Europe and the United States including the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (USA), Orquesta Sinfónica de Radio Television Espanola (RTVE Madrid, Spain), St. Petersburg Philharmonia Orchestra (Russian Federation), Orchestra Filharmonica di Torino (Italy) and the Essen Chamber Orchestra (Germany).

Marcin Dylla was born in Chorzow in 1976. He received his first guitar lessons at the Ruda Slaska Music Conservatory in his native Poland. From 1995 to 2000 he studied at the Music Academy of Katowice with Adi Wanda Palacz. He then completed his studies with Oscar Ghiglia, Sonja Prunnbauer and Carlo Marchione at the Music Academies of Basel (Switzerland), Freiburg (Germany) and Maastricht (The Netherlands), respectively.