Performers
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.
Szymon Bywalec graduated with distinction in symphony and opera conducting from the Jan Wincenty Hawel class at the Music Academy in Katowice, where he now teaches at the Department of Composition, Interpretation, Education and Jazz. Between 2006 and 2013, he was artistic director of the Karol Szymanowski Academic Symphony Orchestra in Katowice. He has worked with renowned conductors such as Krzysztof Penderecki, Gabriel Chmura, Takuo Yuasa, Arturo Tamayo, Jacek Kaspszyk, and Paul McCreesh. He is also a graduate of the Music Academy in Krakow, where he studied the oboe with Jerzy Kotyczka.
This is the youngest of the three orchestras operating at the Henryk Mikołaj Górecki Silesian Philharmonic in Katowice. The Orchestra was founded by Jan Wincenty Hawel in 1981 as an ensemble consisting of the then alumni of the Katowice Academy of Music. The Orchestra’s current artistic director is Piotr Pławner. Boasting a vast repertoire, the Orchestra presents, apart from classical masterpieces, also less frequently performed works as well as arrangements of chamber music by such composers as Franz Schubert, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Pyotr Tchaikowsky, and Dmitri Shostakovich.
Dulcimer player, born in 1980 in Chișinău (Moldova). He learned the dulcimer at secondary music school (Chișinău’s Liceul de Muzică ‘Ciprian Porumbescu’) and subsequently at the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica (Slovakia).
