photo: Aleksander Jura

Title of the doctoral dissertation: The Search for Individual Means of Musical Expression in the Chamber Works for Cello and Piano by Henriette Bosmans

Supervisor: Prof. Lidia Grzanka-Urbaniak, DSc, PhD
Year of admission to the Doctoral School: 2021
Mid-term evaluation: 2022 — positive result

“The choice of topic stems from my interest in performing chamber music and from discovering the figure of the until recently forgotten composer Henriette Bosmans during my postgraduate studies at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. She is one of the many underappreciated women composers whose works have only rarely been performed in modern times. Her pieces for cello and piano possess significant artistic value and display idiomatic features that testify to the originality and individuality of her compositional language.”

Artistic Achievements

Participant in cello masterclasses led by teachers such as Denis Severin, Mats Lidström, Jelena Očić, Michael Flaksman, Kazimierz Michalik, Alexander Gebert, Tilmann Wick, and Konstantin Heidrich.

Laureate of numerous music competitions, including:

• 1st Prize, Moscow International Music Competition (duet category), 2021

• 1st Prize, 20th International Competition – Festival Music Without Limits, Lithuania, 2020 (duet category)

• 2nd Prize, OPUS International Music Competition (1st not awarded, cello solo category), 2022

• 2nd Prize, 5th International Music Competition Odin, Tallinn, 2020 (duet category)

• 3rd Prize, Polish Rising Music Star Competition, 2020

• 3rd Prize, International Music Interpretation Competition (Przemyśl), 2019

• 3rd Prize, Intercollegiate Competition for Instrumental Duos (Katowice), 2019

Performances at numerous festivals, including:
NFM Leo Festival and Musica Electronica Nova in Wrocław, Silesia Sonans in Jelenia Góra, Szczecin Classic, “Evenings at the Arsenal” Chamber Music Festival, Organ and Chamber Music Festival Sola Musica in Częstochowa, Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival in Warsaw, and Ensemble Festival in Radziejowice.

Since 2023, participant in the Baltic Neopolis Academy internship program, providing access to a wide range of courses and masterclasses, as well as opportunities for artistic development through solo and chamber performances in Poland and abroad.

Tutor of the international orchestral workshops during the Silesia Sonans festival in Jelenia Góra (2019–2022).

Ambassador of Saline Royal Academy, an online educational platform featuring world-class pedagogical materials and masterclasses conducted by distinguished professors from leading European conservatories.

Scholarships

• Scholarship of the Rector of the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław for the best students — awarded four times

• Artistic Scholarship of the Mayor of Wrocław (2020)

Photo: Bartosz Szustakowski