Performers

Lorenza Donadini – a member of Ensemble Peregrina

Wojciech Drabowicz was a singer (baritone), born in Poznań in 1966; he died in an accident in 2007. He graduated from the class of Antonina Kawecka at the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań. Already as a student he won prestigious distinctions, including first prizes at the 4th National Adam Didur Opera Singers’ Competition at the Silesian Opera in Bytom and at the International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition in Vienna.

One of the most intriguing contemporary artists working in the fields of algorithmic composition and computer music, Duchnowski is also a performance artist and improviser. He studied composition with Leszek Wisłocki at Wrocław’s Karol Lipiński Academy of Music, where he is now a faculty member. He co-initiated that Academy’s Computer Composition Studio. In 2024 he was granted the state title of professor.

She studied with Tibor Varga at the Ecole Supérieure de Musique in Sion and with Jan Stanienda at Warsaw’s Fryderyk Chopin Academy (now – University) of Music. Prize winner in the Tibor Varga Competition in Sion and the International Tadeusz Wroński Com- petition in Warsaw. Holder of a scholarship from the American Academy of Arts.

Boy soprano and violinist, student at the Stanisław Moniuszko First-Level Music and General Education School in Katowice, winner of many violin competitions in Poland and abroad. As a soprano he has sung in the Lord of the Rings film suite (from a soundtrack by Howard Shore) with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra under Adam Sztaba and Kaapo Ijas. He also performed the part of Poponel in the Polish premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti’s opera The Boy Who Grew Too Fast. In 2023 he appeared with Canto d’Oro children’s choir, sharing the stage with US mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato.

Saxophonist Bartłomiej Duś graduated from the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, where he had studied with Bernard Steuer, and where he currently teaches a saxophone class. He is also a graduate from Claude Delangle’s class at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse in Paris and Vincent David’s class at the C.R.R de Versailles. He obtained a D.M.A. degree in 2019

Pianist and chamber musician; she graduated with an honours degree from Hanna Kryjak’s piano class at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, where she has taught a chamber music class since 2012

Considered as one of the most original Polish jazz pianists, he also performs classical music and contributes to experimental bands.
This graduate of the Poznań Academy of Music has won numerous prizes for both classical music (incl. the 3rd prize in the Paris Conservatoire Russe Alexandre Scriabine’s international piano competition, 2007) and jazz performances (Warsaw Jazz Pianist Contest, 2006, 2nd prize).