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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.
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Anna Krzeszowiec | piano – Pianist and chamber musician, 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. Her piano skills and musical horizons were broadened by meetings with such teachers and artists as Dang Thai Son, Anthony Spiri, Bruno Canino, Ewa Pobłocka, Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń and Andrzej Jasiński. In her artistic activity, she devotes herself to chamber music, performing in various instrumental ensembles and collaborating with outstanding musicians. She also works with young musicians preparing for international music competitions, and as a tutor she receives invitations from institutions such as the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice (NOSPR), Cavatina Hall, the Silesian Philharmonic and the International Cello Academy. She is appreciated by her stage partners for her sensitivity and unique approach to the idea of partnership in music. She has received numerous awards for her artistic qualities as a competition pianist. Since 2010, she has been performing in a duo with cellist Adam Krzeszowiec, with whom she regularly gives concerts in Poland and abroad. The duo has won awards at many chamber music competitions. Among others, they won Grand Prix awards at international competitions in Padua (Premio Città di Padova) and Valletta (Malta Music Competition). In September 2025, their debut album ‘Tour de Paris’ was released, featuring works by Parisian composers. In 2026, their next joint album will be released, this time with sonatas by Szalonek, Świder and Różycki. For many years, she was part of a piano trio, with which she successfully participated in numerous competitions, winning laurels and distinctions: the International Chamber Music Festival in Oleśnica, the International Chamber Music Competition in Illzach, and the 6th J. Brahms International Chamber Music Competition in Gdańsk. She also gained stage experience performing contemporary music with the New Music Orchestra conducted by Sz. Bywalec. She has premiered works by leading Polish and foreign composers, including A. Zubel, P. Mykietyna and P. Szymański. The pianist has performed at the largest music centres in Poland, including the NOSPR (National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra) chamber hall and the National Forum of Music, as well as at many festivals, such as the Karol Szymanowski Music Festival in Zakopane, the Feliks Mendelssohn Music Days in Krakow, the Krzysztof Penderecki International Festival – Level 320 in Zabrze, Harmonie Starego Miasta in Lublin, the Princess Daisy Ensemble Festival in Książ and the International Cello Academy Festival in Nysa, as well as international festivals, including the Pablo Casals Festival (France), the Podium Festival (Norway) and the Festival Culturel International (Algeria).In addition to her concert activities, Anna is fully committed to sharing her knowledge as a lecturer at the Academy of Music in Katowice. She participates in courses and workshops, including at the Krzysztof Penderecki European Centre for Music in Lusławice and as part of the International Cello Academy in Nysa.
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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.
Sebastian Nawrocki | piano – pianist, chamber musician, and teacher. He began learning to play the piano at the age of 5. His mother, Lubow Nawrocka, introduced him to the world of piano playing. In high school and during his bachelor’s studies at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, he studied under Prof. Wojciech Świtała. After graduating, he honed his skills in the United States and at piano courses at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, under the tutelage of Yuri Margulis, Claudius Tanski, Dimitri Bashkirov, and Bernd Glemser. He graduated with a master’s degree from the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw in the class of Prof. Ewa Pobłocka and Prof. Joanna Ławrynowicz-Just.
As a chamber musician, he actively participates in competitions as a competition pianist, including Mieczysław Wajnberg International Competition in Katowice, Michał Spisak International Music Competition, and International Meetings of Young Violinists named after Prof. Mirosław Ławrynowicz in Płock. In addition to his competition activities, he has also participated in several music courses as a pianist for many years, including Zenon Brzewski International Music Courses in Łańcut, Nałęczów Masterclass, Zakopane Academy of Art, StringTime in Goch (Germany), and Winter Academy of Music in Lusławice.
Michał Dziewior | piano – he graduated with honors from the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, where he studied piano under Prof. Wojciech Świtała, and completed postgraduate studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna under Prof. Jan Jirack von Arnim. He currently works as a lecturer at the Chamber Music Department of the Academy of Music in Katowice.
He has participated in masterclasses led by such outstanding pianists as Daniil Trifonov, Kevin Kenner, Tobias Koch, Tamas Ungar, Anna Malikova, and Krzysztof Jabłoński.
He has won many competition awards, the most important of which include: a distinction and the “young critics’ award” at the 1st International S. Moniuszko Competition of Polish Music in Rzeszów (2019), first prize at the 2nd International Livorno Piano Competition – Young in Italy (2018), and third prize at the 4th Halina Czerny-Stefańska In Memoriam International Piano Competition in Poznań (2017). In 2018, he received a scholarship from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage for outstanding artistic achievements. In 2021, he received an award for outstanding chamber pianist at the 1st Mieczysław Wajnberg International Violin Competition.
He has given recitals in Nohant, France, Ehrbar Saal in Vienna, Łazienki Park and the Fryderyk Chopin Museum in Warsaw, the NOSPR concert hall in Katowice, and Fryderyk Chopin’s birthplace in Żelazowa Wola. In 2022, he took part in concerts at the 19th Ensemble Festival, performing on stage with artists such as Tomoko Akasaka and Jakub Jakowicz. In 2023, he performed at the 46th Karol Szymanowski Music Festival in Zakopane, performing a chamber recital in a duet with violinist Karolina Górny. In 2025, he performed with the Aperto String Quartet at the concert inaugurating the 20th edition of the Feliks Mendelssohn Music Days festival in Krakow’s Kazimierz district.
He has performed with many orchestras, including the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, the Silesian Philharmonic, the Podkarpackie Philharmonic, the Świętokrzyska Philharmonic, and the Kalisz Philharmonic. In 2015, he performed at the Berlin Philharmonic accompanied by Das Sinfonieorchester Berlin, inaugurating the orchestra’s concert season.
