Bass player is a graduate of the Frederick Chopin Conservatory in Warsaw.,
With Central Heating Trio he has won prizes in The Europe Jazz Competition in Belgium and The European Jazz Competition in Leverkusen - Germany.
1989-1991 was a member of Kazimierz Jonkisz Quartet, 1991-1993 has played with the Quintessence Quintet and 1992-1995 has played with the Kuba Stankiewicz Quartet with whom he recorded "Northern Song" (GOWI Records 1994) - voted best record of the year by the reader's pool of Polish Jazz Forum Magazine.
Cegielski also worked with Ewa Bem, Tomasz Stanko, Zbigniew Namyslowski, Wojciech Karolak, Henryk Miskiewicz, Zbigniew Preisner, Jan AP Kaczmarek.
For many years Cegielski devoted his time to jazz and classical music and played with the top-ranked Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra, with whom he recorded several records under the direction of Lord Yehudi Menuhin, Krzysztof Penderecki, Jerzy Maksymiuk.
He recorded on the soundtracks of Krzysztof Kieslowki's movies "White" and "Red", and also recorded a film music with jazz trumpeter Tomasz Stanko - "A Farewell to Maria" (GOWI Records).
In 1994 he received annual "Krzysztof Komeda Award" by the Polish Culture Foundation for his significant musical talent.
He has been playing with the Andrzej Jagodzinski Trio since 1993.
Starting 1994 Cegielski has been also teaching double-bass at the Faculty of Jazz of the Chopin High School of Music in Warsaw, and since 2005 he serves as a director of this Jazz Faculty.