Performers

Harpsichordist, pianist, and educator, she studied harpsichord at the Salzburg Universität Mozarteum with Elżbieta Chojnacka and is considered as her tutor’s artistic heiress. She also studied the same instrument with Ewa Piasecka and piano with Marek Drewnowski at the Grażyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz University of Music in Łódź. Recipient of numerous awards and scholarships, she performs both as a soloist and in chamber ensembles, playing early and contemporary music, including numerous world premieres. She has had works written specially for her by such composers as, among others, Zygmunt Krauze, Joanna Wnuk-Nazarowa, Jerzy Kornowicz, Adam Wesołowski, Artur Zagajewski, Ryszard Gabryś, Tomasz Kamieniak, Marcin Tadeusz Łukaszewski, and Bronisław Kazimierz Przybylski. Her performances have taken her to Austria, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, and the United Kingdom. She has appeared under such conductors as Jerzy Maksymiuk, Marek Moś, Krzysztof Urbański, Mirosław Jacek Błaszczyk, Yaroslav Shemet, Maciej Tomasiewicz, Robert Kabara, Massimiliano Caldi, Szymon Bywalec, and Jerzy Swoboda. She plays a 1982 harpsichord built for Elżbieta Chojnacka by Anthony Sidey and Frédéric Bal. An active promoter of contemporary music, Gajecka-Antosiewicz is the founder of the Elżbieta Chojnacka Centre for Contemporary Harpsichord Music in Tarnowskie Góry, co-organiser of annual ‘Harpsichord without Borders’ Seminars of Contemporary Harpsichord Music at the Łódź University of Music.