Bartosz Bryła began studying the violin at the age of six under the direction of Professor Adam Nowak at the State Secondary Music School in Wrocław, with whom he studied until receiving his diploma at the State Secondary Music School in Wrocław, in 1979. He then went on to study at the Staatliche Hochschule fur Musik in Freiburg, in the class of Professor Wolfgang Marschner, which he continued at the Academy of Music in Poznań, in the class of Professor Jadwiga Kaliszewska, until obtaining his diploma with honours in 1983. He took part in music interpretation courses in the classes of Henryk Szeryng, Nathan Milstein and Sir Yehudi Menuhin.
He is a winner of the National Competition for Young Violinists in Lublin (1978); a laureate of the 8th Henryk Wieniawski International Violin Competition in Poznań (1981), the L. Spohr International Violin Competition in Freiburg (1982) and the International Chamber Music Competition in Colmar (1986).

Since 1986 he has been a member of the "Chopin Trio" ensemble, with which he won a special prize for the best performance of a work by W. A. Mozart at the International Chamber Music Competition in Colmar (France,1986). For many years he has been intensively active on the concert stage, performing as a soloist and chamber musician in the best halls all over the world. He has given concerts throughout Europe and in Cuba, China, Japan, USA, Canada, Mexico, as well as the United Arab Emirates and Lebanon. He collaborates with the early music ensemble "Collegium Viridimontanum'', with which he has performed dozens of concerts playing historical instruments.

His artistic output includes recordings made for various Polish and foreign phonographic companies, e.g. Polskie Nagrania, Wifon, Poljazz-Classik, Emscherland Classik (Germany), Selene - world premiere recording of Józef Wieniawski's Violin Sonata with pianist Andrzej Tatarski, EMG Victor (Japan) - participation in recordings of the complete works of Fryderyk Chopin. He made many hours of archival recordings for the Polish Radio, including the first ever recording of Karol Lipiński's Violin Concerto No. 1 in F sharp minor with the Polish Radio and Television Orchestra in Warsaw conducted by Jerzy Salwarowski.

In addition to his concert activities, he is also active as a teacher. He is a professor of the violin class, from 2012 to 2020 he was the Head of the Interdepartmental Chair of Chamber Music, and currently he is the Head of the Chair of String Instruments for Harp and Guitar at the I.J. Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań. Since 1998, he has also taught a violin class at the K. Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław. Approximately eighty violinists have graduated from his class, many of them winners of dozens of prestigious violin and chamber music competitions all over the world, e.g. his student Agata Szymczewska received 1st prize at the 13th Henryk Wieniawski International Violin Competition in Poznań in 2006. Many of his graduates hold positions as concertmasters in symphony orchestras in Poland and abroad, including the Zielona Góra Philharmonic, the Poznań Philharmonic, the NFM in Wrocław, and The New York City Ballet. He has given performance masterclasses and lectures in various centres in Poland and abroad, including. He has given master classes and lectures at various centres in Poland and abroad, including the University of Guanajuato (Mexico), Beijing Conservatory, Hunter College of The City University of New York, Peabody Institute of Music of the Johns Hopkins University Baltimore (USA), Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofia in Madrid, Staatliche Hochschule fur Musik in Wurzburg (Germany), Master Course in Music Interpretation in Zell an der Pram (Austria), Master Violin Course in Bilbao and San Sebastian (Spain).

As chairman and member of the jury, he has participated in national and international violin, chamber music and violin-making competitions in Poland and, among others, in Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Italy, Germany, China and the USA, and in 2011 he was vice-chairman of the jury at the 14th Henryk Wieniawski International Violin Competition in Poznań. For his long-standing work, he was twice awarded the Prize of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, and was decorated with the Distinguished Cultural Service Medal, the Gold Cross of Merit, the Medal of the Commission of National Education, the Bronze and Silver Medals "For Merit to Culture Gloria Artis" and the Gold Medal for Long Service. From 2007 to 2017, he was President of the Henryk Wieniawski Musical Society in Poznań.