Performers
Dutch trumpet player; since 1993 – a member of Cologne’s Musikfabrik ensemble. He has also embarked on an international solo career. His repertoire includes works dedicated to him as their first performer by such eminent composers as Wolfgang Rihm, Georg Friedrich Haas, Péter Eötvös, John Zorn, Agata Zubel, and Hanna Kulenty.
He studied at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy (now University) of Music in Warsaw (with Professor Bogusław Madey), where he also obtained a doctoral degree in conducting under the supervision of Antoni Wit. Between 2007 and 2015 he was the artistic director of the Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw.
Iranian musicologist, composer, and oud performance expert, she graduated in architecture from the University of Tehran and studied Persian music theory at Alzahra University (obtaining her doctorate from that school). Her research concerns the theory and practice of Iranian music as reflected in 10th- to 16th-century treatises, wall and miniature paintings, as well as interdisciplinary studies combining musicology and linguistics.
Igor Pudło (artistic pseudonim: Igor Boxx) is a Polish DJ, music producer and sound engineer, known for his hybrid composition technique, based on combining samples from old records with the sound of electronic instruments, which endows his music with an intriguing retro-futuristic flavour.
She graduated from The Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, where she studied violin with Mirosław Ławrynowicz, Andrzej Gębski and Janusz Wawrowski, as well as viola with Piotr Reichert. Hold- er of scholarships from the ‘Young Poland’ programme and the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
She graduated in musicology from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (PhD in 2010) and from Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (early music voice studies at the class of Dominique Vellard and Richard Levitt; postgraduate studies with Evelyn Tubb and Anthony Rooley; medieval harp with Heidrun Rosenzweig). She developed her skills with Emma Kirkby, Ansy Boothroyd, Barbara Thornton, Benjamin Bagby, and Stefan Haselhoff. In 2001–2004 she completed postgraduate courses in musicology (with Wulf Arlt) and Scandinavian studies at the University of Basel. Founder of Ensemble Peregrina.
He graduated with an honours degree in opera and orchestra conducting from Katowice’s Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music, where he is currently a lecturer. In 2006–2013 he was the artistic director of the Karol Szymanowski Academic Symphony Orchestra in Katowice. He also graduated in oboe from Academy of Music in Kraków. He received scholarships from the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena and the Polish Minister of Culture and Art, as well as prizes in numerous conducting competitions, and the President of the City of Katowice Award.
Established in 1970 and consisting of a chamber choir and an instrumental ensemble, Capella Cracoviensis is one of the leading and most active institutions in Poland’s present-day early music scene. It specialises in historically informed performance practice and performs exclusively on period instruments. Its choir’s repertoire ranges from Renaissance polyphony to mannerist madrigals as well as 19th- and 20th-century songs.
