Performers

Bass. Graduate of the Academy of Music in Wrocław (2009). He has also completed acting courses at the International Film School in Cologne and participated in master classes with such instructors as Christian Elssner, Deborah Polaski, David Syrus, Linda Watson and Franz Grundheber. He made his debut in 2010 as Polyphemus in Haendel’s Acis and Galatea (opera festival in Reinsberg, Austria) with the Wiener Akademie Orchestra, conducted by Martin Haselböck. In 2009–2011, he sang with the Opera Studio of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf.

He studied music with Ludmila Kasjanenko at the
Arthur Rubinstein Music School in Bydgoszcz and
Solomon Mikowsky at New York’s Manhattan School
of Music (2011), as well as Jerzy Sulikowski and Katarzyna
Popowa-Zydroń at the Feliks Nowowiejski
Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz, and at masterclasses
taught by Paul Badura-Skoda, Gary Graffman,
Ivan Moravec, Lang Lang, Dina Joffe, and others.

Halina née Kowalska (married names Trzonek, then Zalewska) first learned the violin from her father. In 1928–1939 she studied cello with Eli Kochański at Warsaw Conservatory.
She gave performances as a soloist and chamber musician, performed on Polish Radio with, among others, her brother Henryk (a violinist) and Ludwik Urstein, as well as the Polish Radio Quartet and the radio orchestra under Grzegorz Fitelberg.

Born on 19th September 1938 in Warsaw, he studied piano with Maria Wiłkomirska and composition with Kazimierz Sikorski at that city’s State Higher School of Music. He continued his education with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. He is a professor of composi- tion at the Academy of Music in Łódź.

Pupil of Zbigniew Drzewiecki (piano) and Kazimierz Sikorski (composition) under the German occupation, he made his debut as a composer in 1943, and as a conductor – in 1946. In the following year he graduated from Warsaw’s State Higher School of Music (now the Chopin University), where he had studied conducting with Kazimierz Wiłkomirski and composition with Kazimierz Sikorski.

Mezzo-soprano. Graduate of two faculties of the Łódź Academy of Music: instrumental, in the piano class (diploma in 1988) and vocal-acting in the class of Jadwiga Pietraszkiewicz (diploma in 1992). She continued her voice studies in Copenhagen, under André Orlowitz.

Danish cellist, highly regarded for his interpretations of contemporary repertoire, in particular – cello concertos and solo works. He studied in Amsterdam, London, Zagreb, Vienna, Copenhagen, and elsewhere, with such musicians as Harro Ruijsenaars, Dmitri Ferschtman, Valter Dešpalj, Mats Lidström, Morten Zeuthen, and Anner Bylsma. Kullberg has performed with the major orchestras of Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland, as well as renowned orchestras from other countries: London’s Royal Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic, Sinfonia Varsovia, NFM Wrocław Philharmonic, and Tallinna Kammerorkester.

In 1951 she graduated with distinction from Stefan Belina-Skupiewski’s singing class at Katowice’s State Higher School of Music (now the Academy). She also studied violin with Irena Dubiska. She made her debut at the Silesian Opera in 1946 as Mercedes in Bizet’s Carmen and Flora in Verdi’s La traviata.