Michał Bąk comes from Gdańsk. He started learning to play the double bass at the age of 10 in the Music School Complex in Gdansk Wrzeszcz. He is a graduate of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice at the classical faculty (in the class of Dr Waldemar Tamowski and Dr Jan Kotula) and jazz (in the class of Michał Barański). He is a laureate of many double bass and jazz competitions. As a double bass player, he specializes in jazz music and historical performance of early music, performing and recording with bands such as Oh! Orkiestra Historyczna, Arte dei Suonatori or Holland Baroque.