Agnieszka Zakrzewska | piano – pianist, a graduate of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. She studied piano under the guidance of Professor Andrzej Jasiński and chamber music with Professor Urszula Stańczyk and Professor Teresa Baczewska. She has participated in numerous masterclasses, working with pianists such as Ewa Pobłocka, Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń, Adam Wodnicki, Aleksiej Maksymow, Lee Kum Sing, Jerzy Marchwiński, Tomasz Herbut, and Anthony Spiri. She is also a laureate of many piano competitions. Since 2007, she has been a teacher at the M. Karłowicz State Music School (I and II degree) in Katowice, where she leads her own piano class and serves as a pianist-accompanist. In 2019, she obtained the title of certified teacher. Since 2007, she has also worked at the Academy of Music in Katowice as a pianist-accompanist in the Department of String Instruments.
Anna Krzeszowiec | piano – a graduate of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, where she studied piano in the class of Professors Wojciech Świtała and Piotr Sałajczyk. She also trained in the class of Professor Maria Szwajger-Kułakowska and Marek Moś (chamber music), and worked under the guidance of the Russian pianist Anna Malikova, as well as the Altenberg Trio: Amiram Ganz, Alexander Gebert, and Claus-Christian Schuster. She is passionate about chamber music. For many years, she was part of a piano trio, performing repertoire ranging from the Classical period to contemporary works. She was awarded first prize at the International Chamber Music Festival in Oleśnica (2010), was a finalist at the International Chamber Music Competition in Illzach (2011), the 6th International Johannes Brahms Chamber Music Competition in Gdańsk (2012), and the 18th International Kazimierz Bacewicz Chamber Music Competition in Łódź (2013). Since 2010, she has formed a duo with cellist Adam Krzeszowiec, with whom she won first prize at the International Malta Competition in Mdina (Malta, 2014), the Grand Prix at the Premio Citta di Padova competition in Padua (Italy, 2013), and a distinction at the 1st National Piano Duo Competition in Warsaw (2011). Currently, the artists are working on recording their own transcriptions of songs by F. Schubert and W. Korngold for cello and piano. Their pianistic and chamber music skills, as well as their musical horizons, have been expanded through encounters with pedagogues and artists such as Dang Thai Son, Anthony Spiri, Bruno Canino, Ewa Pobłocka, Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń, Andrzej Jasiński, as well as Jelena Ocic and Jakub Jakowicz. As a soloist and chamber musician, she has participated in festivals including: Warsaw Autumn, Śląsk Quartet and its guests, the Krzysztof Penderecki International Festival – Level 320 in Zabrze, the Princess Daisy Ensemble Festival in Książ, the Podium Festival in Haugesund (Norway), the Chopin Recital Festival in Żelazowa Wola, the P. Casals Festival in Prades (France), the Young Laureates of Music Competitions Student Art Festival in Katowice, the Symphonic Music Festival in Algeria, and the Music in the Castle Festival in Lublin. Together with the Orchestra of New Music under the direction of Szymon Bywalec, she performed contemporary music repertoire. She took part in the premieres of works by leading Polish and international composers, including Agata Zubel, Paweł Mykietyn, and Paweł Szymański. On a daily basis, she works with students at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. She is also invited as a collaborative pianist (coach) with such ensembles as the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Silesian Philharmonic. She has also conducted chamber music classes as part of the Chamber Music Workshops organised by the National Fund for Children.
Yevheniia Prysiazhna | piano – born in Dnepropetrovsk (Ukraine). In 2001, she graduated from the Kharkiv State Institute of Arts named after Ivan Kotliarevsky in the class of Prof. Natalia Melnikova. From 2001 to 2004, she interned at the Ivan Kotliarevsky National University of Arts in Kharkiv. She has extensive experience as a pianist and accompanist. She has worked with classes of clarinet, flute, bassoon, double bass, viola, cello, and violin. She has also accompanied choirs and vocalists. She is a scholarship holder of the Maria Yeschenko Foundation and a laureate in the “Best Accompanist of the Competition” category in many international competitions, including: the International Instrumental Competition for Young Performers “Maestoso Maestro” (2020, Israel); the International Myron Polyakin Violin Competition (2020, Ukraine); the International Competition-Festival “Chords of Khortitsa” (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, Ukraine); the International Music Festival “Visiting Gogol” (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, Ukraine); the International Festival “Music is Our Common Home” (2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, Ukraine); “Caspi Art” (2020, Turkey); the XIV International Saxophone Festival (2022, Przeworsk); the XX National Competition for Young Soloists (2022, Jaworzno); the XVI International Wind Instruments Competition in (2022, Wrocław); the International String Instruments Competition (2023, Elbląg); the International String Competition “Like Wieniawski” (2023, Lublin); the XXIX Silesian Wind Instruments Competition (2023, Dąbrowa Górnicza); the V National Percussion Competition “Tamburi Di Canto” (2023, Dąbrowa Górnicza); the I National Competition “Masters of Classical Music” (2023, Poznań). She actively conducts concert activities in Ukraine. She is a pianist and chamber musician of the Kharkiv Regional Philharmonic Society. She has performed as a soloist with the Kharkiv Philharmonic Orchestra.
