is a music workshop organized since 2005, devoted to historical interpretations of the works of old masters. The courses are intended for students, pupils and professional musicians wishing to broaden their knowledge in the field of historically informed performance. In addition to core classes such as individual lessons, chamber music or orchestra, we encourage participating in optional additional classes, of which the following are worth mentioning: playing the Renaissance viol da gamba consort, participating in the Baroque oboe and bassoon consort, classes in tuning and maintenance of harpsichords or warming up together in the morning. Recognising the importance of health issues and stress management, this year we have invited eminent specialists in the above-mentioned fields to join us. The week-long workshop will culminate with a performance of extensive excerpts from Antonio Vivaldi's oratorio Juditha triumphans.
There is a separate option to participate in workshops for chamber ensembles. If you are interested, please contact us individually.
It is possible to apply to two or more classes. If you are interested, please contact us individually in order to precisely determine the conditions of participation.
 
 
The total price of the workshops is PLN 1 300 and includes active participation in the workshops and all lectures and additional classes. The price does not include accommodation costs (see the Information tab).
Applications will be accepted from May 15th 2024. Registration takes place via an electronic form under the description of each class. Completion of the form involves a deposit of PLN 300.
PLEASE NOTE! Those who send in an application form and an advance payment by 15-30 May 2024 will be entitled to a 15% discount (the discounted course fee is PLN 1 150).
 
 
 
It is addressed both to pupils and students of vocal classes and professional musicians (regardless of the type of voice) who want to explore issues related to historical performance, as well as to singers presenting completely different attitudes towards the issue of the so-called historical performance practices. Its repertoire covers music from the baroque era to the 19th century, with particular emphasis on opera parts. An additional advantage is the possibility of cooperation with Mirosław Feldgebel - a pianist, harpsichordist, harpist, who will have a 19th-century piano at his disposal.
A graduate of Warsaw's Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in the class of Professor Małgorzata Marczewska. Among others, he cooperates with the Warsaw Chamber Opera, Baltic Opera in Gdańsk and Wrocław Opera, as well as with the Slovak National Theatre Opera in Bratislava. She has performed under the baton of such distinguished conductors as: Benjamin Bayl, Mirosław Jacek Błaszczyk, Piotr Borkowski, Jose Maria Florencio, Paul Goodwin, Fridrich Heider, Michał Klauza, Kazimierz Kord, Tadeusz Kozłowski, Jerzy Maksymiuk, Wojciech Michniewski, Zsolt Nagy, Marcin Nałęcz-Niesiołowski, Charles Olivieri-Munroe, Paweł Przytocki, Wojciech Rajski, Marcin Sompoliński, Stefan Stuligrosz, Marek Štryncl, Roman Valek, Antoni Wit, Andryj Yurkevich. She devotes much of her concert activity to oratorio-cantata and chamber music. She is particularly valued in early music circles. She cooperates with prominent representatives of this executive trend in Poland and abroad. In 2001 she received the Zofia Rayzacherowa Award for the greatest artistic individuality in the field of early music at the XI Festival of Early Music at the Royal Castle in Warsaw. She has made many recordings, including ten albums that received the FRYDERYK Phonographic Academy Award. The solo album, on which the singer presents Karol Szymanowski's songs, recieved two FRYDERYK 2008 awards in the following categories: Vocal Recital Album of the Year, Opera, Operetta, Ballet, and Phonographic Debut of the Year. In 2019, the album released by Chopin University Press, Stabat Mater -Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Luctus Mariae - Paweł Łukaszewski, was appreciated with the FRYDERYK 2019 award in the Album of the Year Chamber Music category. For many years she has been pursuing her pedagogical passions by conducting vocal courses in the Czech Republic and Poland. Since 2005 she has co-organized the Varmia Musica festival and music workshops in Lidzbark Warmiński. Since 2012 she has been working as an assistant in the solo singing class at the Faculty of Vocal and Acting at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. In 2019 she received the title of Doctor of Arts in the field of musical arts, the artistic discipline of vocal performance.
Assistant in the singing class
AGraduate of the Fryderyk Chopin Music University in Professor Małgorzata Marczewska's singing class and in Professor Bogdan Gola's choral conducting class. She also studied German and cultural studies at the University of Warsaw. She works professionally as an artist with the National Philharmonic Choir, as well as gives concerts as a soloist and chamber musician. She has recorded six albums and several concerts for the Polish Radio and TVP Kultura. She has won a Fryderyk Award (1 award, 1 nomination), a scholarship from the Minister of National Education, a scholarship from the Prime Minister, and has been nominated for the Koryfeusz Muzyki Polskiej award. As a conductor, she has won 10 awards in Polish and international choral competitions, including the Grand Prix of the Wacław z Szamotuł Festival, the Grand Prix of the international Cantu Gaudeamus competition in Białystok, 1st place at the International Religious Music Festival in Rumia. Since 2018, she has been a member of the ProMODERN vocal sextet, with which she has given concerts at the National Philharmonic, Szczecin, Olsztyn, Pomeranian, Gorzów, Kashubian, Częstochowa and Jelenia Góra Philharmonics, at the National Radio Symphony Orchestra (NOSPR), Studio S1, recorded numerous concerts for radio and television and performed at dozens of festivals in Poland and abroad, including three times at the Warsaw Autumn Festival and the Kody in Lublin. Since 2014, she has been a member of the Tempus vocal quartet, which promotes music of the Polish Renaissance and Baroque. The quartet has made numerous recordings of Polish sacred music of the 15th-17th centuries and has performed at dozens of early music festivals, including Rome, Palermo, Lublin and Krakow. She gives solo concerts of 16th-18th century opera and oratorio-cantata repertoire, as well as contemporary repertoire. She has performed with Sinfonia Varsovia, Bornus Consort, La Tempesta, Sabionetta, Ars Nova, Il Tempo, Gradus ad Parnassum, Il Giardino d'Amore, Cappella Viridimontana, Camerata Vistula, among others. From 2014 to 2018 she toured as a soloist with the early music ensemble Miraculis. She has performed at the Polish Radio, the National Forum of Music, the Podkarpacie, Gorzów, Pomeranian and Kashubian Philharmonics, the Royal Castle and at dozens of festivals, including: Forum Musicum, Pieśń Naszych Korzeni in Jarosław, Festival of Three Cultures, Varmia Musica, Musica Sacromontana, Szczawno-Zrój Baroque Festival or Festiwal Dziedzictwa Kresów.
The course is addressed to people who want to improve their skills in playing the traverso flute and for those who would like to get to know historical flutes from the very beginning. For beginners, it is possible to use the instrument on site during the workshop. In addition to the baroque flute, we propose to extend the instrumentation and range of the repertoire, including flutes with a simple system, used in classical and early romantic music In addition to individual lessons, there will be methodical and practical group classes on the interpretation of the music of past eras and technical issues. The main pillar of the workshop will be chamber music, due to the priceless values in the development of a young flutist.
Flutist of the MACV orchestra of historical instruments of the Warsaw Chamber Opera. Lecturer in the Department of Historical Performance Practices of the Music Academy I.J. Paderewski in Poznan. In 2019, she obtained a PhD, specializing in flute literature with Empfindsamkeit style traits. She constantly cooperates with the Capella Cracoviensis orchestra, with which she performed under the baton of Jan Tomasz Adamus, Andrew Parrot, Paul McCreesh, Christophe Rousette and Alessandro Moccia, performing a wide repertoire from baroque to romanticism. She was a soloist in the orchestra Konfraternia Caper Lubliniensis, the Diletto orchestra from Białystok, the Radom Chamber Orchestra. She is a member of The Ballard Consort. She gives concerts in Poland and abroad (Germany, Norway, Greece, Portugal, Japan, Belgium, Lithuania and Russia).
The historical oboe class is open to all those who wants to learn the secrets of playing instruments called the "oboe" and many other related instruments. During the course, it is possible to get acquainted with such instruments as: baroque oboe, oboe d’amore, oboe da caccia, classical two- and eight-keys oboe, english horn and 19th-century oboe. Both purely technical and performance issues supported by extensive orchestral experience are the focal point for our musical meetings. Both period and modern instruments are accepted. It is possible to borrow the instrument after prior contact with the organizers.
One of the first oboists in Poland professionally dealing with playing of historical oboes. A concert soloist, chamber and orchestral musician and active promoter of early music, as well as organizer of various artistic activities. A graduate of the Academy of Music in Poznań in Professor Mieczysław Koczorowski’s oboe class, the Royal Conservatory in The Hague in Ku Ebbinge’s baroque and classical oboe class and the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Leipzig in Wolfgang Kube’s class. He graduated with honors from the Postgraduate Studies in Cultural Managers at the Warsaw School of Economics. In 1996 he was awarded the Councillors' Prize of the City of Poznań for artistic achievement and in 2002 the Zofia Rayzacherowa Award for the greatest artistic individuality in the field of early music. Since 1998, he has been permanently cooperating with the Warsaw Chamber Opera, holding the position of principal oboist and coordinating the Musicae Antiquae Collegium Varsoviense orchestra. In 2020 he founded the Warsaw Harmony ensemble, with which he presents eighteenth- and nineteenth-century works for wind instruments. In addition, he cooperates with most orchestras and early music ensembles in Poland. From foreign formations it is worth mentioning: Akademie fur Alte Music from Berlin, Collegium Marianum from Prague, and Ensemble Inegal from Prague. He is the artistic director of the Varmia Musica festival and the Varmia Musica Academia music workshops in Lidzbark Warmiński. He leads the Baroque oboe class at the Academy of Music in Poznań.
We invite musicians of various levels of proficiency to the historical bassoon class, playing both historical and modern instruments. At their disposal students will have copies of baroque and classical bassoons and dulcians. During the course, we will focus on solo and chamber repertoire covering the epochs from the Renaissance to Romanticism. We will raise technical and stylistic issues, extensively studying the issue of ornamentation. In addition to individual lessons, there will be classes in the technique of reed construction, orchestral studies and bassoon chamber music in small and large ensembles and an oboe-bassoon consort.
Tomasz Wesołowski was born in 1980 in Gdańsk where he studied bassoon with Wojciech Orawiec, supported by a scholarship from the President of Gdańsk, and received his Masters Degree with distinction in 2004. From 2004-2008 he was studying historical bassoon with Donna Agrell and dulcian with Wouter Verschuren at the Royal Conservatoire in Den Haag, and later on with Alberto Grazzi at Accademia Internazionale della Musica in Milan supported by a scholarship from Fondazione Marco Fodella. He has been involved in many orchestral, chamber and solo music projects in Europe, Asia and USA. He has performed with Les Musiciens du Louvre (Marc Minkowski), Capella Cracoviensis, {oh!} orkiestra historyczna, B’rock (René Jacobs), Freiburger Barockorchester, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra (Ton Koopman), Les Musiciens du Prince (Cecilia Bartoli), Anima Eterna, Les Talens Lyriques (Christophe Rousset), Bach Collegium Japan (Masaaki Suzuki), Le Cercle de l'Harmonie, Netherlands Bach Society, Arte Dei Suonatori; recording CDs for Channel Classics, naïve, Alpha, BIS, ORF, claves, Brillant Classics, DUX, Netflix and HBO. Alongside his busy performance schedule, Tomasz teaches historical bassoon and chamber music at the Academy of Music in Poznań and Academy of Music in Gdańsk as well as at various masterclasses in Poland, Germany and Brazil.
The class is open to clarinettists who already have some background on historically performance practice and for those who wants to get initiate in the early music field. From the baroque period with the chalumeau and the baroque clarinet, going through the classical Mozart´s time, and moving forward to the early and late romantique style, you can get an overwiwew of the clarinet history. Modern players are welcome!
Toni Salar-Verdú is known not only as one of the world’s leading historical clarinetists but also as one of today’s most captivating musicians. He is the current principal clarinet of Concerto Köln since 2005, and in 2009 also joined the French orchestra, Ensemble Matheus, as principal clarinet.He enjoys an active career as a soloist, often performing the Mozart Clarinet Concerto with orchestras throughout Europe. He has performed C.M. von Weber’s Second Concerto and Franz Krommer’s Concerto for 2 Clarinets with Concerto Köln. With Musica Antiqua Köln, he appeared as soloist in the the Chalumeau Concerto in B-flat major by Johann Friedrich Fasch and with the Kölner Akademie he played the Bernhard H. Crusell sinfonia concertante in B flat major for Clarinet, Horn and Bassoon. As an orchestral musician, he has also worked with ensembles including the Warsaw Chamber Opera, {oh!} orchestra, Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Freiburger Barockorchester, Orchestra of the 18th Century, Anima Eterna, Musica Antiqua Köln, The Kings’ Consort, Le Cercle de l'Hamonie, Le Concert de la Loge, Ensemble Pygmalion, Les Siècles, Orchestre de l'Opera de Versailles, La Petite Bande, Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Al Ayre Español, Concerto Italiano, Seville Baroque Orchestra, De Nederlandse Bach Vereningen, Die Kölner Akademie, Musica Aeterna and Pacific Baroque Orchestra Vancouver. He has collaborated with different recording labels to make over 50 recordings during his career. Mr. Salar-Verdú regularly performs at the most renowned music festivals, concert halls, and opera houses. As a pedagogue Toni teaches in various master courses and academies in Europe and America such as the Academia Varmia Musica à Lidzbark-Warminski (Pologne), International Music Summer Course à Warsaw-Wilanowie (Pologne) Curso y Festival internacional Martin Codax in Cuenca (Spain), Conservatoire National Superieur deMusique de Paris, Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Lyon, Meisterkurs with Concerto Köln in Ochsenhausen (Germany), Junge Deutsche Philharmonie Orchester (Germany), University of Arkansas and the Florida University (USA).
The course is aimed at those who wish to improve their skills in playing the natural horn, as well as at those who would like to become acquainted with the instrument from the very beginning. Both technical and performance issues, supported by extensive orchestral experience, are the starting point for our musical meetings. Both ‘period’ and contemporary instruments are accepted. It is possible to borrow an instrument after contacting the organisers in advance. The courses in Lidzbark Warmiński provide a wonderful opportunity to trace the history of the horn, from the Baroque to Romanticism.
Chamber musician and pedagogue. He belongs to the first generation of Polish musicians involved in playing historical instruments. In recent seasons he has collaborated with leading early music ensembles, including the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra, Oh!, Den Jyske Sinfonietta, Finnish Baroque Orchestra, Enghave Barok, Arte dei Suonatori. He has performed under the batons of such masters as Christopher Hogwood, Philippe Herreweghe, Paul McCreesh, Paul Goodwin, Marc Minkowski and Enrico Onofri.
In addition to his activities on historical instruments, he gives concerts and teaches on the modern French horn. He has performed many times with the World Orchestra for Peace and the Polish National Philharmonic Orchestra. Since 2017 he has been a musician with the Sinfonia Varsovia orchestra. He teaches a class in French horn and natural horn at the Academy of Music in Poznań.
It is addressed both to violinists, violists who already have a certain amount of knowledge related to the stylish performance of Baroque, Classicism and early Romanticism music, as well as to musicians who want to enrich the scope of their existing skills in playing contemporary instruments with the practice of playing historical instruments. In addition to issues related to the interpretation and understanding of early music, great emphasis is also placed on solving problems related to technique and so-called orchestral practice. Both period and modern instruments are accepted. It is possible to rent baroque and classic bows after prior contact with the organizers.
One of the most outstanding Baroque virtuosos, Zbigniew Pilch is an artist of broad interests encompassing instrumental music from the 16th till the 20th century, with a special focus of virtuoso violin music. He plays the Baroque and modern violins, the viola, and the viola d’amore. He performs concerts as a soloist, chamber player, and conductor. Zbigniew Pilch graduated from the Instrumental Faculty of Cracow Music Academy, where his master was Zbigniew Szlezer. At the same time, he specialized in Baroque violin with Zygmunt Kaczmarski. He leads an active concert life across Europe and all over the world, performing with such illustrious ensembles as Finland’s Baroque Ensemble Battalia, Denmark’s Concerto Copenhagen, Spain’s Al Ayre Español, the Czech Musica Florea, and Belgium’s Collegium Vocale Gent. In Poland he has collaborated with almost every early music ensemble. For many years he was a member of the Sinfonietta Cracovia and has been concertmaster of the Wrocław Baroque Orchestra ever since its founding. As a soloist he collaborates with the Warsaw Chamber Opera and the Warsaw Camerata. As a conductor he has appeared with, among others, the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic, the Elbląg Chamber Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of the Lower Silesia Philharmonic, and the Gdynia Chamber Orchestra Sinfonia Nordica. Zbigniew Pilch already has a rich phonographic output. His first solo album An Enlightened Virtuoso has been released in March 2017 (CD Accord). He recorded the virtuosic Violin Concertos by Feliks Janiewicz with the Musicae Antiquae Collegium Varsoviense and Kai Bumann (2007). The NFM Wrocław Philharmonic under his direction recorded Haydn’s Symphonies Nos. 103 & 104 (DUX 2009). The artist has also taken part in numerous, award-winning recordings (including the International Classical Music Award 2019 for the album 17th-Century Sacred Music in Wrocław, Fryderyk 2011 for the album Koželuh, Rejcha, Vořišek – Symphonies, Fryderyk 2019 awards for CD Mielczewski II, a disc with Phantoms of Stanisław Moniuszko and an album containing Stabat Mater by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi and Luctus Mariae by Paweł Łukaszewski, as well as a Fryderyk 2021 for the album with the works of Mikołaj Zieleński). Zbigniew Pilch obtained a post-doctoral degree in 2019. Since 2020, he has been employed as a professor at the K. Penderecki Academy of Music in Kraków, where he has taught the Baroque violin. In addition, he lectures at the K. Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław and during master classes as part of the Varmia Musica Festival in Lidzbark Warmiński, Poland. Since the academic year 2020/2021, he has been Head of the Department of Early Music at the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Kraków. In 2020, Zbigniew Pilch received the honorary badge of Merit for Polish Culture for outstanding achievements, awarded by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage.
Assistant in the viola class
He is a graduate of the Academy of Music I. J. Paderewski in Poznań in the viola class of prof. Marcin Murawski, as well as the Academy of Music K. Lipiński in Wrocław in the baroque viola class of prof. Zbigniew Pilch. He participated in master classes under the supervision of prof. Piotr Reichert, Zbigniew Pilch, Jarosław Thiel, Sirkki-Lisa Kaakinen, Markus Möllenbeck. He is a co-founder and member of the string quartet "Musicarius" specializing in early music performance, with which he performs in Poland and abroad. He is a member of the Wrocław Baroque Orchestra. He is also a part of the Academy of Early Music Foundation located in Szczecin. For many years he led the viola section in the ensemble of early instruments of the Warsaw Chamber Opera "Musicae Antiquae Collegium Varsoviense ". He also collaborated with The English Baroque Solists. Currently, he performs with the most important early music ensembles in Poland as a soloist, chamber musician, often also as a group leader. He participates in radio broadcasts and CD recordings. In 2019, he was awarded the Fryderyk Prize in category “chamber music”. He has performed together with Jane Rogers, Enrico Gatti, Kati Debretzeni, and Peter Hanson. He gained orchestral experience under the guidance of artists such as John Eliot Gardiner, Philippe Herreweghe, Paul McCreesh and Giovanni Antonini.
It is intended both for people exploring the performance issues of early music, as well as for participants who want to enrich the scope of their existing skills in playing contemporary instruments with the practice of playing historical instruments. In addition to the style issues in the context of historical performance practices in solo and chamber music, and the improvement of instrumental techniques, in the process of educating a cellist, a lot of attention is paid to the subject of basso continuo. The main part of this course will be devoted to these issues. Both period and modern instruments are accepted. It is possible to rent baroque and classic bows after prior contact with the organizers.
Cellist specialised with the historical instruments. Teacher and active animator of initiatives and events related to the historical performance of early music. He is graduate of Music Academy in Cracow in the cello class of T. Kamińska and Guildhall School of Music&Drama in London in the baroque cello class of A. McGillivray. He also studied at Dresdner Akademie fűr Alte Musik with Ch. Kyprianides. As a chamber musician, soloist and orchestral musician, he has performed and recorded with most of polish early music ensembles playing on historical instruments, incl. with Collegio di Musica Sacra of A. Kosendiak, Lower Silesian Baroque Orchestra, Lyrical Orchestra, Harmonology and Jasna Góra Band conducted by J. T. Adamus, Concerto Polacco, Harmonia Sacra, La Tempesta, Hyacinthus Ensemble, Violin Consort, FAMD.PL orchestra, Goldberg Baroque Ensemble, The Orchestra of the First Republic of Poland, the Polish Orchestra of the 18th century, Warsaw Harmony, Starck Compagnay, Il Piacere, Silva Rerum, Cantores Minores Wratislavienses, Cameratą Podlaską, Fiori Pari, Nova Silesia, Cappella dell'Ospedale della Pietà, Il Giardino d’Amore, Sezione Aurea, Capella 1547, Maresiénne Consort, as well as with the Belgian ensembles Collegium Vocale and Les Muffatti led by P. van Heyghen. He has also performed in Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, France, the Netherlands, Austria, Spain, Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia, Czech Republic, Russia, Great Britain, Ukraine, Slovakia, China, Japan and the USA. He has participated in recording over 30 CDs for such labels as CD Accord, Dux, Sarton, Cypres, LionRecords, Musicon, ProMusica Camerata. Since 2005, he has been cooperating with the Musicae Antiquae Collegium Varsoviense ensemble at the Warsaw Chamber Opera (currently as a principal cellist). Since 2011, he has been teaching baroque cello at the Academy of Music in Łódź and leading early music chamber ensembles and an academic baroque orchestra. Founder and artistic director of the Altberg Ensemble baroque orchestra in Łódź.
It is addressed to both experienced viola da gamba players and musicians who are just about to start learning to play this instrument. In addition to perfecting instrumental techniques and working on a solo repertoire, the courses provide a unique opportunity to play together in a viol consort. There are some limited possibilities with borrowing strings and instruments. If you are interested, please contact the organizers.
A multidimensional musician, reaching for instruments ranging from contemporary and baroque double bass through numerous varieties of viola da gamba, including rare pardessus de viole. He performs as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral musician, taking on repertoire from the Renaissance to the present day, including works written especially for him. A graduate of the Mozarteum University in Salzburg (class of Vittorio Ghielmi) and the Academy of Music in Katowice (class of Marek Caudle). He works on an ongoing basis with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice. He performed, among others with {oh!} Historical Orchestra, Silesian Quartet, Le Poème Harmonique and BachAkademie Stuttgart. A laureate of numerous international and national competitions. Artist also made numerous recordings, including, the first Polish solo gamba album recorded with his wife - Anna Firlus- and enthusiastically received by international critics Gamba Sonatas, nominated for the “Fryderyk 2019” Award, C.F. Abel - Sonatas from the Maltzan Collection, including the world's first recordings of C.F. Abel’s sonatas, discovered in the Poznań University Library (nomination for the International Classical Music Awards 2020 and “Fryderyk 2020” Award), album Music of the Warsaw Castle: Music of the French Masters with {oh!} Historical Orchestra (solo part in the concerto for viola da gamba Le Phénix by Michel Corrette ) - nomination for the “Fryderyk 2018” Award, Tansman - from Trio to Octet with the Silesian Quartet, Progressive Baroque with Nikola Kołodziejczyk Orchestra (“Fryderyk 2016” Award), Réflexions with compositions by Adrian Robak or Portraits - Les caractères français with {oh!} trio that he’s part of with Martyna Pastuszka and Anna Firlus. Krzysztof Firlus currently teaches class of viola da gamba at the Academy of Music in Katowice and class of double bass at the Academy of Music in Cracow.
The harpsichord and basso continuo class warmly invites harpsichordists, organists and pianists, as well as people who would like to start their adventure with the harpsichord. Apart from working on a solo repertoire (from the 16th to the 18th century), interpretative and technical aspects, we will focus on the issue of basso continuo. Every morning, we will tune the harpsichord together, and every day we will analyze excerpts from the treatises on the basso continuo playing This year, among many instruments, we will have at our disposal a unique copy of the famous two-keyboard harpsichord Colmar/Ruckers at our disposal, built in the renowned workshop of Bruce Kennedy in 2020 as his "Opus 200”and two-keyboard Flemish harpsichord, made by master Fred Bettenhausen, modeled on the historical Ruckers (IR-Versailles) from 1628.
She graduated with honours from the Academy of Music in Cracow, where she studied in the class of prof. Elżbieta Stefańska. A graduate of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London in the class of Nicholas Parle, and the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel in the class of Jörg Andreas Bötticher. She won a distinction at the 6th J. Broadwood International Harpsichord Competition in London, organized on historical instruments. A laureate of scholarship of the Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Swiss Government, Accademia Musicale Chigiana and Guildhall School of Music & Drama. She perfected her skills at master classes led by Kenneth Gilbert, Christophe Rousset, Elisabeth Joyé, Pierre Hantai, Kris Verhelst and Jesper Christensen. Artist gives concerts in Poland, France, Germany, Spain, China, Japan and the USA. She has performed with Jordi Savall, Alfredo Bernardini, Benjamin Bayl, Olivia Centurioni and Peter Van Heyghen. She works with several early music ensembles, i.a. Musicae Antiquae Collegium Varsoviense. A co-founder of Altberg Ensemble. She’s a professor at the two Academies of Music – in Łódź and Cracow. Her first solo album with Pieces de clavessin by Jean Nicolas Geoffroy (Dux 0137), received excellent reviews in Poland, Luxembourg, France and Germany, and was nominated for the prestigious International Classical Music Awards 2013. In March 2014, it received the 5 Diapason Award.
Assistant, historical keyboard specialist
Harpsichordist, historical instruments restorer and technician. She builds and renovates harpsichords and related instruments. Since 2015, she has been working in the prestigious workshop of Bruce Kennedy as a specialist in mechanics and intonation. She cooperates with contractors, institutions and builders recognizable all over the world. The instruments she supervised were played, among others, by Jean Rondeau, Marco Mencoboni, Christophe Rousset and Skip Sempe In 2019, she was invited to The Juilliard School in New York to prepare the harpsichord for a recital at Carnegie Hall, and in 2021 she began working with builder Jim Hall in Barcelona. She regularly travels around Poland and Europe, reviewing instruments owned by both institutions and private individuals.
It is addressed to both those who explore the performance issues of early music, as well as participants who want to enrich the scope of their existing skills in playing contemporary instruments with the practice of playing historical instruments. The Varmia Musica Academia workshop can become an opportunity for in-depth study of basso continuo playing and to use the acquired knowledge during numerous group performances. There will be also be time to work on a solo repertoire.
He graduated from the Academy of Music in Cracow (diploma with honours, 1997) and at the Boston Conservatory (Artist Diploma in Organ Performance, 1999). In 1995, he won the First Prize at the 2nd J. P. Sweelinck International Organ Competition in Gdańsk. He performs as a soloist and a chamber musician, working with numerous ensembles playing historical instruments (among others Concerto Palatino, The Bach Ensemble, Vasa Consort, Vox Luminis, Weser Renaissance Bremen, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra). A professor of organ at the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Cracow. His postdoctoral dissertation “Stylistic transformations in Italian organ music at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries” (2007) was awarded the Prime Minister's Prize. He published, i. a., editions of all works by Stanisław Sylwester Szarzyński (2015) and Adam Jarzębski (2021) as well as Braniewo and Oliwa tablature (2021). He is also a member of Scientific Council of the of the serial publication “Fontes Musicae in Polonia” and the artistic director of the Starosądecki Early Music Festival.
The total price of the workshops is PLN 1 300 and includes active participation in the workshops and all lectures and additional classes.
An advance payment of PLN 300 should be made after completing the application form and receiving the transfer details from the organizers. The remaining amount is to be paid by July 30, 2024.
The price doesn't include accommodation. We provide information about accommodation options in Lidzbark Warmiński.
For those interested in the second specialty, we offer a 50% discount on an additional class. If you are interested, please contact us individually in order to precisely determine the conditions of participation.
If the class is not created due to insufficient number of applications or fortuitus events, the participant will receive appropriate information and a refund of the paid amount by June 30, 2024.
All facilities where the Festival takes place are located in close proximity to each other, allowing for efficient walking between them.
Muzeum Warmii i Mazur – oddział w Lidzbarku Warmińskim
pl. Zamkowy 1
Lidzbark Warmiński
The castle of Warmia bishops is one of the most valuable monuments of Gothic architecture in Poland. Built in the years 1350 - 1401, it is one of the best-preserved castles in Poland, also known as the Wawel of the North. Many prominent figures such as Nicolaus Copernicus, Jan Dantyszek, Stanislaus Hosius, Ignacy Krasicki lived and created in this place. The Castle Museum presents over a dozen unique exhibitions - from archeology, old armaments, artistic craftsmanship, gothic art, religious painting, to contemporary Polish painting. Festival concerts and classes will be held in the historic chambers of the building.
ul. Ignacego Krasickiego 2
Lidzbark Warmiński
A garden pavilion build in the first half of the 18th century, considered an architectural masterpiece of the reign of King Stanisław August Poniatowski. The present appearance of the Orangery is due to Bishop Ignacy Krasicki, who expanded the entire structure. It has retained its impressive, richly ornamented and decorated appearance until the present day. The Orangery will host festival concerts and classes.
ul. Orła Białego 5
Lidzbark Warmiński
School building at ul. Orła Białego 5 in Lidzbark Warmiński was built in the years 1914-1918 in the former city of Heilsberg. The facility has a large hall where rehearsals of the baroque orchestra will take place, and many rooms available for classes, rehearsals and practicing.
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