Piotr Gąsior, a violinist and conductor, is a graduate of the Krakow Academy of Music. After several years of working in orchestras in Krakow and Gdansk, he won the competition for the second concertmaster in the Chamber Orchestra of the Danish Radio and went to Copenhagen. There he gained experience as a soloist, chamber musician, organist and pedagogue. He is the 1st concertmaster of the Chicago Arts Orchestra and works as a conductor with orchestras in Denmark, Poland, Germany, Latvia and Ukraine. He promotes the music of the Danish composer Hans Christian Lumbye, known as "Scandinavian Strauss".