Performers
A composer, electronic artist, and professor of the musical arts, Knittel has created orchestral, choral and chamber works, operatic and ballet music, sound installations, numerous computer pieces (which he has both composed and performed) as well as "live electronics". The artist’s discography comprises more than sixty titles. Knittel studied sound engineering and composition with Tadeusz Baird, Andrzej Dobrowolski, and Włodzimierz Kotoński at Warsaw’s Chopin State Higher School (now University) of Music. In 1974 and 1976 he took part in the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music.
He graduated in conducting from Paweł Przytocki’s class at the Cracow Academy of Music and is now a doctoral student at his alma mater. In 2008–2014 he directed the Archetti Chamber Orchestra of the City of Jaworzno. Since 2010 he has been an assistant conductor to Cracow’s Young Philharmonic at the Mieczysław Karłowicz State Music School Complex and leader of ElektroNova ensemble, founded by Marek Chołoniewski. Koczur was the youngest participant of the Grzegorz Fitelberg International Competition for Conductors (2012).
Bass-baritone, graduate of the Acting Department of the Leon Schiller Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Łódź, the Academy of Music in Warsaw, and Christian Elsner’s class of solo voice at the Hochschule für Musik in Dresden. He performs at the world’s major opera houses and festivals, such as Milan’s Teatro alla Scala, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, New York’s Metropolitan Opera, the Salzburger Festspiele, the Bayreuther Festspiele, and Munich’s Bayerische Staatsoper.
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.
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.
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.
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A tenor singer, graduate of the Gdańsk Academy of Music and Warsaw’s Academy of Fine Arts. He has participated in a numerous masterclasses taught by Ryszard Karczykowski, Roland Panerai, Salvatore Fisichella, Sylvia Geszty, Helena Łazarska, and Claudio Desderi. Kozłowski is a second-prize winner in the Hariclea Darclée International Voice Competition in Braila, Romania. His repertoire ranges from early to contemporary music.
