Performers

The Austrian guitarist Christian Fennesz, composer and electronic music producer, is an icon of Europe’s ambient music scene. He studied guitar and ethnomusicology; his experiments with electronics date back to his earliest years.

He graduated in violin and composition from Warsaw’s Music Institute. Prize winner in competitions for composers in Leipzig (1898) and Warsaw (1901). His conducting debut took place in 1904 at Warsaw Philharmonic. In 1905 he co-organised the Young Polish Composers’ Publishing Company.

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.

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.