Artists

Sebastian Aleksandrowicz

Graduate of the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw. Since 1996, principal oboist of the orchestra at the Grand Theatre – National Opera in Warsaw; from 2007–2014, principal oboist of the Wrocław Philharmonic. He has also served as principal oboist of the Polish Radio Orchestra (2001–2003) and the National Philharmonic (2005–2007). As a soloist and chamber musician, he has collaborated with ensembles including Philharmonie der Nationen Hamburg (as principal oboist and soloist), Morphing Chamber Orchestra Vienna, New Art Ensemble, Tokyo Solisten, Sinfonietta Cracovia, Sinfonia Varsovia, NFM Wrocław Philharmonic, Royal String Quartet, Lutosławski Quartet, and Hilliard Ensemble.

He has performed in Poland, Spain, Germany, Austria, Russia, South Korea, and Japan. Aleksandrowicz is part of the Amadeus Wind Ensemble, which brings together musicians from Poland and the London Symphony Orchestra. He has recorded for Sony Classical, EMI, Pomaton, and DUX. Since 2019, he has been the artistic director of the Warsaw Winds Plus Festival.

One of the most distinguished cellists of her generation. She graduated with honors from the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw and the Universität der Künste in Berlin. She has performed in prestigious concert halls such as Tonhalle Zurich, Royal Festival Hall in London, Moscow Conservatory, the National Philharmonic in Warsaw, and many other philharmonics in Poland and abroad. Poland’s leading composers – including Paweł Szymański, Hanna Kulenty, Aleksander Nowak, and Dariusz Przybylski – have dedicated their cello works to her. As a soloist, she has collaborated with top Polish and foreign orchestras. Bojanowicz is a laureate of the “Polityka” Passport and the winner of many awards, including First Prize at the Jeunesses Musicales International Competition in Belgrade (2015), as well as prizes at the Witold Lutosławski Competition in Warsaw, Krzysztof Penderecki Competition in Krakow, Beethoven Competition in the Czech Republic, and the Prague Spring International Music Competition.

Jakub Jakowicz

has been performing in public since the age of eleven. He has appeared as a soloist with all of Poland’s leading orchestras. In 2001, he made his debut with the Munich Philharmonic under the direction of Pinchas Steinberg, performing Karol Szymanowski’s Violin Concerto No. 1.

As a chamber musician, he has performed with artists including Heinz Holliger, Paavali Jumppanen, Garrick Ohlsson, Paul Gulda, Bartosz Bednarczyk, Jan Krzysztof Broja, Szymon Nehring, Michel Lethiec, Elina Vähäla, Anna Maria Staśkiewicz, Ruth Killius, Katarzyna Budnik, Avri Levitan, Tomoko Akasaka, Gareth Lubbe, Andrzej Bauer, Tomasz Strahl, Alexander Gebert, Rafał Kwiatkowski, Marcin Zdunik, Zvi Plesser, Timmo-Veikko Valve and Julius Berger. He is also associated with two string quartets: he has been a member of the Zehetmair Quartet since 2006, and from 2008 to 2014 served as first violinist of the Lutosławski Quartet. Jakub Jakowicz is a laureate of the 2003 “Polityka Passport” award. In 2007, he received the “Orpheus” Award at the Warsaw Autumn Festival. In 2018, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the promotion of Witold Lutosławski’s music, he was awarded the Medal of the Centenary of the Composer’s Birth by the Witold Lutosławski Society. He is also a two-time laureate of the “Fryderyk” Award, one of the most prestigious distinctions in the Polish recording industry.

During the 2024/25 season, he performed as a soloist with, among others, the National Philharmonic Orchestra in Warsaw, appeared at the W. Lutosławski Studio in Warsaw during the anniversary concert of the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra and Agnieszka Duczmal, and performed with the Gdańsk and Łódź Philharmonic Orchestras. He also served on the jury of the Karol Szymanowski International Music Competition in Katowice and took part in prestigious international festivals, including Szczecin Classic and the Naantali Music Festival in Finland. He performed and taught as a guest artist at the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) in Melbourne. He also began a collaboration with pianist Szymon Nehring and cellist Marcin Zdunik, forming a piano trio.

Jakub Jakowicz is a professor at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw and the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, where he teaches violin.

Tomasz Januchta

Double bassist of the Orchestra of the Grand Theatre National Opera in Warsaw and from 2006–2022, a member of the National Philharmonic in Warsaw. Graduate of the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw. He is a laureate of the Second Prize at the National Double Bass Competition in Elbląg and a distinction at the A.B. Ciechański National Double Bass Competition in Poznań. He performs as a soloist and is also an active chamber musician, collaborating with ensembles such as the Lutosławski Quartet, Chain Ensemble, Royal String Quartet, and Meccore String Quartet. In the past decade, he has participated in most of the major music festivals in Poland. He has performed in chamber music groups with eminent musicians, including Piotr Anderszewski, Michel Letiec, Jakub Jakowicz, José Gallardo, Kevin Kenner, Ingolf Wunder, Marcin Zdunik, and Tomoko Akasaka. He recorded and published online the complete Bach Cello Suites arranged by Tadeusz Pelczar.

Paavali Jumppanen

Virtuoso pianist, soloist and chamber musician. He has performed many times in the United States, Europe, Asia and Australia, where he has collaborated with world-renowned composers such as Boulez, Murail, Dutilleux and Penderecki, as well as with many Finnish artists. More recently, he has devoted himself to performing complete cycles of piano sonatas by Beethoven and Mozart. Paavali Jumppanen studied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and then with Krystian Zimmerman at the Basel Music Academy in Switzerland, where he studied organ, piano and clavichord. For Deutsche Grammophon, he recorded, considered the best on the music market, the complete piano sonatas of Pierre Boulez and the complete cycle of Beethoven’s piano sonatas, published by Ondine. Jumppanen spent the 2011/2012 season as a visiting professor at Harvard University.

An active curator, he serves as the artistic director of a multi arts festival Väyläfestival in Northern Scandinavia as well as the Australian National Academy of Music in Melbourne.

Szymon Krzeszowiec

cclaimed Polish violinist, soloist, chamber musician and pedagogue. He graduated from the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, where he studied with Roman Lasocki, and the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, where he studied with Herman Krebbers. He is a laureate of violin competitions in Poznań, Warsaw and Brescia, as well as first prize winner at chamber music competitions in Copenhagen and Sondershausen as a member of the Aristos String Trio.

He has performed as a soloist with leading Polish orchestras, including the Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra and Sinfonia Varsovia, as well as with most of the country’s major philharmonic orchestras.

Since 2001, he has been primarius of the internationally acclaimed Silesian Quartet, with which he has performed extensively around the world. He is also a member of the Wajnberg Trio. His discography comprises more than 60 recordings released by labels including Chandos, BIS, EMI Music Poland, CD Accord, Sony Classical, Naxos, ECM, DUX and Dacapo.

Szymon Krzeszowiec is also active as a pedagogue. He heads the Strings Department and violin class at his alma mater and, since 2004, has been a faculty member of the Ensemble Chamber Music Festival in Radziejowice. He oversees the artistic activities of the Academy of Art in Zakopane and directs the Mieczysław Wajnberg International Violin Competition in Katowice. He regularly gives masterclasses and serves on the juries of international violin competitions.

Mats Lidström

Mats Lidström is a Swedish cellist, composer, and educator. He studied in Gothenburg and at the Juilliard School in New York with Leonard Rose, also training with Pierre Fournier and Janos Starker. As a soloist, he has performed with the London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, and Dallas Symphony, collaborating with conductors such as André Previn, Vladimir Ashkenazy, and Maxim Shostakovich. He has appeared in prestigious concert halls across Europe, the USA, and Asia, and his recordings for EMI, Deutsche Grammophon, BIS, and Hyperion have earned international acclaim, including the Diapason d’Or. Since 1993, he has been a cello professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and is the author of esteemed compositions, transcriptions, and educational materials published by CelloLid.com.

Marcin Markowicz

Since 2005, artistic director of the Ensemble Festival.

Violinist, composer, music animator and teacher. Concertmaster of the Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw, founder and second violinist of the Lutosławski Quartet, and artistic director of the Ensemble Festival and the Princess Daisy Festival since 2005. Lecturer at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. He studied violin in Lübeck with Christiane Edinger, in Warsaw with Krzysztof Jakowicz and Roman Lasocki, and in Boston with Roman Totenberg. He also worked under the guidance of Ida Haendel and members of the Juilliard and Cleveland Quartets.

As a soloist, he has collaborated with the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic, NOSPR in Katowice, Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw, Amadeus Chamber Orchestra, Baltic Philharmonic, Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra and other leading Polish ensembles, performing under conductors including Gilbert Varga, Jacek Kaspszyk, Michał Klauza, Giancarlo Guerrero, George Tchitchinadze, Agnieszka Duczmal and Tomas Hanus. As a chamber musician, he has performed with artists such as Garrick Ohlsson, Piotr Anderszewski, Kevin Kenner, Bruno Canino, Marcin Masecki, Krzysztof Jakowicz, Bartłomiej Nizioł, Andrzej Bauer, Agata Szymczewska, Uri Caine and Vijay Iyer. He has performed across Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa in major concert halls including Lincoln Center in New York, Konzerthaus and Boulez Saal in Berlin, Cité de la Musique in Paris, Bozar in Brussels, Kioi Hall in Tokyo, Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing, and the National Philharmonic and W. Lutosławski Studio S1 in Warsaw.

Violin concertos by Paweł Mykietyn and Uri Caine, as well as Loophole for violin and orchestra by Jan Duszyński, were dedicated to Marcin Markowicz.

From 2006 to 2019, he was concertmaster of the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic. From 2015 to 2019, he was founder and artistic director of the NFM Orchestra Academy. He has taught violin and chamber music masterclasses in Poland, Great Britain, Italy, Greece, Singapore, Mexico, Turkey and South Korea. Since 2006, he has also been a lecturer at the Zakopane Academy of Art. He has recorded for Naxos, CD Accord, Anaklasis, DUX, NFM, Odradek and Polish Radio.

As a composer, he received a distinction at the 1999 A. Panufnik Composition Competition in Kraków. His works have been performed by artists and ensembles including Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Sol Gabetta, the Silesian Quartet, Lutosławski Quartet, Szymanowski Quartet, Agata Szymczewska, Jakub Jakowicz, the Amadeus Orchestra and the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic.

In 2014, he received the “Wena” Award from the Marshal of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship for outstanding achievements in culture, and in 2019 he was a laureate of the Wrocław Music Award. In 2020, together with Jazz Band Młynarski-Masecki, he received a “Gold Record” for the album Płyta z zadrą w sercu. Together with the Lutosławski Quartet, he was a laureate of the 2023 Fryderyk Award.

Marcin Masecki

Outstanding pianist, composer, conductor, arranger, producer, and educator. Graduate of the prestigious Berklee College of Music, winner of the Gold Medal at the International Jazz Pianists’ Competition in Moscow (2005). His trademark is the effortless blending of genres and crossing boundaries between high art and entertainment. He is co-founder of the Jazz Band Młynarski-Masecki – the ensemble has earned two platinum records. He also leads his own Big Band and collaborates with artists from around the world. As a classical pianist, he has released four solo albums and two recordings of piano concertos. He regularly conducts, collaborating with Capella Cracoviensis. In 2025, he recorded his Symphony No. 3 with the Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw.

Masecki is also a recognized film music composer. He received the Polish Film Award “Eagle” for his music for “Powrót do tamtych dni” (“Back to Those Days”). He also contributed to the films “Cold War,” “Muse,” “Gareth Jones,” and the series “Blinded by the Lights” and “1983.”

Maciej Młodawski

Cello concertmaster of the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic and member of the Lutosławski Quartet. Graduate of the F. Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw in the cello class of Prof. Tomasz Strahl and Prof. Andrzej Bauer (diploma with honours). He also studied as a guest student at the Hochschule für Musik Augsburg under Julius Berger and Sebastian Hess.

He is a laureate of the D. Danczowski Cello Competition in Poznań and the Chamber Music Competition in Łódź. As a soloist, he has performed with the Wrocław Philharmonic, e.g. inaugurating the 2008/2009 season under the baton of Jacek Kaspszyk, and was one of two soloists (alongside Garrick Ohlsson) on the orchestra’s three-week tour of the USA. He also performed the Polish premiere of Ståle Kleiberg’s work Dopo for cello and string orchestra. 

He gives concerts in Poland and abroad as a member of the Lutosławski Quartet, as well as in duo with the pianist Agnieszka Przemyk-Bryła. As a soloist and chamber musician, he has taken part in such festivals as Wratislavia Cantans, Ensemble, Music on the Peaks, Chain, Lutosławski Forum, Hong Kong Arts Festival and Klara Festival in Brussels. 

Oskar Hamerski

Actor at the National Theatre in Warsaw. Graduate of the Ludwik Solski State Higher School of Theatre in Kraków (1999).  
In 1999-2003 he was an actor at the Teatr Nowy in Łódź, where he played the main roles in performances by, among others, Mikołaj Grabowski, Paweł Miśkiewicz, Łukasz Kos, including the title role in Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” – the last performance by Kazimierz Dejmek.

He is fascinated by the idea of theatrical improvisation and instrumental theatre (Bogusław Schaeffer, MW2). In 2011 he participated in an improvisation workshop with Keith Johnston in Denmark. Since then he has become a promoter and advocate of the art of impro. Author of the book ‘Theatrical improvisation according to K. Johnstone’ and editor of the book ‘IMPRO: spontaneous world creation’ by K. Johnstone. Frank Totino’s assistant during workshops at the PWST in Krakow. Introduced impro to the Theatre Academy in Warsaw, where he taught at the department of directing and dramatic acting. Currently, he teaches at Theatre Academy in Warsaw and at the Art Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Cezary Kosiński

theatre and film actor. He has performed at many theatres in Warsaw, such as the Rozmaitości Theatre, the Dramatyczny Theatre, the Powszechny Theatre, the Polonia Theatre, the Och-Teatr, the IMKA Theatre and the Buffo Theatre, as well as in Kraków, at the National Old Theatre and in Wrocław, at the Polski Theatre in the Underground. He has taken part in over a hundred film and television productions. He has been a lecturer at the Theatre Academy in Warsaw for many years. He is currently affiliated with the National Theatre in Warsaw.

Jan Duszyński

Composer of autonomous, theatrical, and film music. Graduate of the composition department at the Warsaw University of Music in the class of Professor Stanisław Moryto, as well as The Juilliard School of Music in New York in the class of Professor Christopher Rouse. Graduated with honors. Recipient of the Kosciuszko Foundation scholarship, winner of the Witold Lutosławski scholarship, as well as the Marvin Hamlisch scholarship and the Gretchaninoff Memorial Prize. Participated in master composition courses in Aspen, Colorado, conducted by, among others, Steve Mackie and John Corigliano.

Jakub de Barbaro

He is involved in publishing graphics, identification and information systems. Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. Co-founder of the Goldex Poldex cooperative. Member of STGU (Association of Applied Graphic Designers). Collaborates with, among others, the Raster Gallery, the Art Museum in Łódź, the Ha!art Corporation, the Krakow Film Festival and the W. Lutosławski National Forum of Music. He has designed for the European Conference of Promoters of New Music (Netherlands), Arnolfini (UK), Villa Reykjavik (Iceland), Villa Tokyo (Japan), WNF (Austria), Corpovia (France), among others. In 2014, he designed the visuals for the Cricoteka building in Kraków, and in 2017 (together with Kuba Sowiński) the graphic design for the Krakow Film Festival, which won a silver award at the European Design Awards in the Visual Identity Prints category. In 2019, he received the Polish Graphic Design Award in the Publishing category for the graphic design of the novel ‘Tamam Shud’. 

Chamber Music Interpretation Masterclass
Piano
Emilia Biskupska, Maria Moliszewska, Tomas Quevedo Pincetti

Violin
Marcel Groblewski, Julia Kościukiewicz, Emilia Krzeszowiec, Kamila Malczyk, Przemysław Prucnal, Ray Sun

Viola
Natalia Gidlewska, Magdalena Krawczyk, Michał Kubica

Cello
Tymoteusz Bączkowski, Olga Chwaszczewska, Helena Gałek, Filip Krzeszowiec,

Jazz Masterclasses
Tomasz Glass, Nicole Sarna, Tomasz Szymański, Weronika Wójtowicz, Miron Wojtkiewicz

Acting Workshop
Ada Chełmińska, Anna Krok