Biography

THE CHOPIN PIANO QUINTET is created by people related to the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw who together decided to explore the artistry of musical dialogue.

The members of the ensemble began to work in autumn 2013 and after a short cooperation, that is to say in April 2014, they became laureates of the International Stasys Vainiūnas Piano and Cham­ber Ensemble Competition in Vilnius. The subsequent awards received at the Italian competition tour in June 2014, where they won the 1st prize at the International Chamber Music Competition “Contessa Tina Orsi Anguissola Scotti” in Pianello Val Tidone, the 1st prize at the 12th International Competition “Premio Citta di Padova” in Padua and the 1st prize at the 7th International Chamber Competition “Anton Garcia Abril” – Espana in 2018, opened them the door to Polish and European concert halls.

The Chopin Piano Quintet is invited to international festivals, among others, the Quartetto di Ber­gamo, the 20th International Chamber Music Festival Lago di Garda, the Val Tidone Festival in Italy, the Emanations Festival in Lusławice, the Evenings at the Arsenal in Wrocław, and the Con­noisseur Philharmonic in the Silesian Philharmonic.

The particular members of the ensemble are prize-winners of numerous solo and chamber music competitions both in Poland and abroad. They are improving the artistry of performing in an ensemble under the direction of such pedagogues as Maja Nosowska, Corina Belcea, Jan Stanienda, Andrzej Bauer, or Krystyna Makowska-Ławrynowicz.

The Chopin Piano Quintet has become a laureate of the scholarship pro­gramme of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage “Young Poland” 2016.

The Chopin Piano Quintet has in its repertoire both Polish piano quintets by Juliusz Zarębski, Grażyna Bacewicz, Marcin Błażewicz, and Tadeusz Paciorkiewicz, and chamber music masterpieces by Robert Schumann, Dmitri Shostakovich, Johannes Brahms, César Franck, Edward Elgar, Antonín Dvořák, and others, as well as transcriptions of Fryderyk Chopin works.

 

Krzysztof Stanienda

Krzysztof Stanienda

Krzysztof Stanienda   Krzysztof STANIENDA was born on 22 February 1986 in Warsaw. He is an extremely talented pianist of young generation; a graduate of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in the class of Prof. Edward Wolanin. He is given classes...

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Roksana Kwaśnikowska

Roksana Kwaśnikowska

Roksana Kwaśnikowska   An award-winning artist who has excelled in prestigious competitions both in Poland and on international level (e.g. Tibor Varga International Violin Competition in Sion, 1st Karol Szymanowski International Music Competition in...

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Magdalena Lech

Magdalena Lech

Magdalena Lech    Magdalena Lech was born in 1993 in Warsaw. She graduated of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw in the violin class of prof. Jan Stanienda. In the season 2016/2017, as part of the Erasmus Plus scholarship program, she...

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Maria Stanienda

Maria Stanienda

Maria Stanienda   Maria STANIENDA graduated from the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in the viola class of Prof.Marek Marczyk. She won the 2nd prize at the Young Talent Competition in Pianello Val Tidone in 2014 and was a laureate of the Wrocław...

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Magdalena Bojanowicz-Koziak

Magdalena Bojanowicz-Koziak

Magdalena Bojanowicz-Koziak   Magdalena Bojanowicz received the „Polityka” magazine award (Paszporty Polityki)) for "..courage, risk and consequence. (...) For the concert creations, stimulating our imagination and the power of convincing... " She won...

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