Performers

An outstanding Polish tenor. Enlisted in the Reserve Officer Cadet School in Zamość in 1939, he sang in a barbershop quartet there, and fought in the 1939 defensive war. He took up professional voice training in Lublin with Eugeniusz Kopp (1943), and continued it with Ignacy Dygas, already as a soloist in the Representative Artistic Ensemble of the Polish Armed Forces.

Ensemble Peregrina, founded by the Polish-Swiss singer and musicologist Agnieszka Budzińska-Bennett in Basel in 1997, researches and performs sacred and secular music of the Middle Ages. The group has released thirteen internationally acclaimed recordings (including ECHO Klassik 2009 and International Classical Music Award 2019) and performed at numerous prestigious festivals in Europe and in the USA.

Founded in 1974 on the initiative of Karol Stryja, this one of Poland’s oldest philharmonic choirs inaugurated its activity during the Silesian Philharmonic’s 30th anniversary celebrations. The Choir’s first artistic director was Jan Wojtacha, an outstanding choirmaster who held that post until 2004. Already in its third year, the Choir took part in the Wratislavia Cantans festival, performing Benjamin Britten’s "War Requiem" with the Silesian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra.

Jazz saxophonist and composer, a leading figure in the Polish and European jazz scene; 15-time ‘Jazz Forum’ magazine’s Best Soprano Saxophonist.

Tenor, graduate of Warsaw’s Chopin University of Music (2007), prize winner in the Berlin Deutsche Oper’s Internationaler Gesangswettbewerb and the 12th Ada Sari International Vocal Artistry Competition in Nowy Sącz. He has appeared under such conductors as Andriy Yurkevych, Keri-Lynn Wilson, Miguel A. Gómez-Martínez, Lionel Friend, Łukasz Borowicz, Tadeusz Kozłowski, Marek Moś, and Jakub Chrenowicz, in spectacles directed by Keith Warner, Mariusz Treliński, Jerzy Gruza, Emil Wesołowski, Igor Gorzkowski, and Jitka Stokalska.

Graduated from the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice (in choral conducting and musical education), and the Academy of Music inKrakow (postgraduate studies in music theory). Shealso studied at Kodály Institute of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, and developed her conducting skills at courses both in Poland and abroad (Ericson Masterclass in Haarlem, International Kodály Seminar in Kecskemét, and Studium Chorale Masterclass for Choral Conductors in Maastricht).

Violinist and conductor; winner of the 10th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition. He graduated with honours from the G. and K. Bacewicz Academy (now University) of Music in Łódź. He also studied at the Hochschule der Künste Bern (Switzerland), winning that school’s Eduard-Tschumi-Preis. Apart from his triumph in the Wieniawski Competition, he also won the prestigious Internationaler Musikwettbewerb der ARD in Munich (1995) as well as the international competitions in Bayreuth and Monte Carlo.

Founded by Jerzy Gert in October 1948. For almost 70 years of operation, the choir has been performing both unaccompanied works and vocal-instrumental forms that represent various styles and periods, with a particular focus on Polish music.