Performers

Born in Fortaleza (Brazil), living since 1985 in Poland.
He studied at the Universidade Federal de Minas
Gerais in Belo Horizonte, New York’s Juilliard School
of Music, the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende
Kunst in Vienna, and the Chopin Academy (now
University) of Music in Warsaw (conducting with
Henryk Czyż).

He studied with Klaudiusz Baran at Warsaw’s Chopin University of Music, Grzegorz Stopa at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold, Iñaki Alberdi at Barcelona’s Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya, and Mie Miki at Essen’s Folkwang Universität der Künste. He is the winner of one of the world’s key accordion contests, Certamen Internacional de Acordeón ‘Arrasate Hiria’ (2012), as well as main prize winner in competitions in Poland, Germany, Slovakia, and Italy.

A soprano born in Warsaw; graduate of the Chopin University of Music, where she studied with Jadwiga Rappé at the Vocal Department, and the Interdepartmental Postgraduate Song Studies. She has for many years given concerts with the best Polish chamber ensembles and symphony orchestras.

Having graduated in organ and harpsichord from
Tokyo University of the Arts (2009), she studied at
the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg –
early organ music performance as well as concert and church music performance. She also studied improvisation.

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.

Actor, born in Lviv, he was a member of the city’s People’s Theatre. Since 1975, he has been associated with The Stanisław Wyspiański Teatr Śląski in Katowice where he has played over 100 roles. He teaches acting and articulation at the Karol Szymanowski Music Academy in Katowice, where he holds a PhD.

He studied music theory with Władysław Żeleński and piano with Wiktor Barabasz at Krakow Conservatory, later conducting with Franz Schalk in Vienna. He made his concert debut in Krakow’s Stary Theatre (1915).

The pianist completed a BA at Cambridge University, where she obtained a double first in music, and undertook postgraduate study with Ronan O’Hora at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.