Performers

Singer, actor and theatre director. In 1928–1931 he studied at Warsaw Music Conservatory. In 1928–1937 he was a choir member in Warsaw’s Operetta, Nowości, and other Warsaw theatres. He made his opera debut as Stolnik (The Pantler) in Moniuszko’s Halka in a Warsaw Touring Opera production (1928).

Clarinettist, basset horn virtuoso, composer, educator, and painter; artistic director of Biennale Koper contemporary music festival in Slovenia. He graduated from Giacomo Soave’s clarinet class at the Conservatorio Antonio Vivaldi in Alessandria, studied electronic music composition at the Conservatorio Statale di Musica Ottorino Respighi in Latina, and developed his knowledge and skills with, among others, Alan Hacker and Alain Damiens. At the age of eighteen, he met Karlheinz Stockhausen, who regularly engaged him as a soloist. Marelli premiered and recorded many of the German composer’s works, later released on multi-award-winning albums.

Jazz guitarist, born in 1973 in Rotterdam. He grew up in Paris, where he graduated from the jazz class at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique. From 1993 he studied with Jim Hall, Billy Harper, and Kenny Werner at New York’s Mannes School of Music (The New School)

Baritone. Educated at the I.J. Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań, K. Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław (under Christian Elssner) and the C. M. von Weber Hochschule für Musik in Dresden. Finalist and winner of special prizes at the singing competitions in Duszniki-Zdrój (2000) and Hans Gabor Belvedere Competition in Vienna (2007).

Singer, violinist, composer, and text writer, one of Poland’s most popular music personalities. Born into a family with musical traditions, she graduated from the violin class at the Chopin Music Academy (now — University) in Warsaw. It is voice, however, that has become her main means of artistic expression. She was ‘Jazz Forum’’s best singer of 2019.

The first woman to have graduated from the saxophone class at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy (now University) of Music in Warsaw (in the class of David Pituch and Krzysztof Herder). As a soloist she debuted at Warsaw Philharmonic in 1995.

Countertenor, graduate of the Chopin Academy (now University) of Music in Warsaw, where he studied with Jerzy Artysz. Member of the International Opera Studio at Opernhaus Zürich. Associated for many years with the Warsaw Chamber Opera, where in 2004 he made his debut as Ottone in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea.