MA Magdalena Jaszczak

A Wrocław native, pianist and chamber musician. She graduated with honours from the Ryszard Bukowski State Secondary Music School in Wrocław and the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław, where she studied under Professor Włodzimierz Obidowicz (1991). She honed her skills at masterclasses in Duszniki Zdrój and Wrocław, studying under Professors Wiktor Mierżanow and Jean Claude Vanden Eynden.

While still a student, she began working at the Academy of Music in Wrocław at the Vocal Department as a pianist and accompanist. She has participated in piano festivals and competitions and as an accompanist at vocal competitions. Between 1994 and 2005, continuing her work with singers, she worked as a coach for the Lower Silesian Opera Choir, a coach at the Vocal Department and at the Department of Music Theory, Composition, Conducting and Music Therapy as an accompanist in the symphonic conducting class. She collaborated with the National Forum of Music Choir (formerly the Wrocław Philharmonic) and the Academy of Theatre Arts in Wrocław as an accompanist for students in vocal technique classes. As a highly regarded chamber musician, she has performed with Polish and foreign soloists, performing works from the Baroque to the contemporary period.

She was awarded the ‘Distinguished Service to Polish Culture’ medal by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage and the Bronze Cross of Merit by the President of the Republic of Poland for her outstanding work at the Lower Silesian Opera.