Artistic biography (until 2021)

"Artistic synthesis" – this is how I can call my own path of development, which is manifested by undertaking and combining various activities: education, independent scientific and workshop searches, creative studies, pedagogical, organizational and dissemination activities of music. In each of them I try to find higher values: creative freedom, truth, beauty and multifaceted respect for art, its creator and performer.

Agata Górska-Kołodziejska - artistic biography

Education

I am a graduate of the Academy of Music. Grażyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz in Łódź, which I graduated with honors at the Faculty of Piano, Harpsichord and Organ in the piano class prof. Maria Korecka-Soszkowska at the same time obtaining in 2003 a diploma in chamber chamber science in the chamber chamber studies class prof. Krystyna Hussar Moczulska. In 2005 I graduated from the Postgraduate Master Studies of the Academy of Music in Łódź in specialties playing piano under the direction of prof. Maria Korecka-Soszkowska. Since 2004 I have been an employee of my alma mater. In May 2011, she received her Ph.D. in musical arts in instrumentalysis in specialties playing piano at the Academy of Music in Cracow and in June 2019 I received a doctorate in habilitated art from the Academy of Music. Ignacy Jan Paderewski in Poznan.

Awards

I am the winner of the 2nd solo prize at the International Piano Competition in Lithuania, the 3rd Prize at the International Piano Competition for Young Performers (Helsingor – Denmark) and the winner of awards and distinctions for the best pianist at: 9th Vocal Competition. Halina Słoniowska in Duszniki-Zdroj, 5th International Vocal Competition. Halina Halska in Wrocław, XI Intercollegiate Vocal Competition "In the circle of Slavic vocal music" in Katowice (2009).In 2019, my album "Muzyka Kobiet. Songs" received the title of "Album of the Year" of the music magazine HIFI and Muzyka. For my active artistic and organizational activity, I received the first and third degree awards of the Rector of the Academy of Music. G. and K. Bacewiczów in Łódź.

Artistic activities

I conduct international artistic activities. I have performed solo piano recitals in Brussels, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Ukraine and many times in Tunisia. I was a judge of the international piano competition (Tunis 2013), I conducted a piano masterclass for students in Tunisia (Hammamet 2013).

I conduct active solo and chamber concert activities in the country: I performed fryderyk Chopin's birthday home in Żelazowa Wola, in the Warsaw Music Society, in the concert hall of the Society of Them. F. Chopin in Warsaw (Ostrogski Castle), in the concert hall of the Łódź Philharmonic, the Częstochowa Philharmonic, the Krakow Philharmonic, the Grand Theatre-National Opera in Warsaw, the Silesian Opera, the Wrocław Opera. I performed in the hall of the Museum of the City and herbst palace in Łódź, biedermann's palace, the hall of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Łódź, the Museum of Manor Interiors in Tubądzina, the Palace in Sannikach, the Castle in Oporowo, the Lublin Museum, the Pabianic City Museum and many others. In 2021, as part of the celebration of the Mozart Year, I performed the W.A. piano concerto. Mozart accompanied by the Polish Camerata orchestrated by Marek Głowacki at the Art Propaganda Centre in Łódź.

Agata Górska-Kołodziejska - concert

I have collaborated with well-known singers – Urszula Kryger, Beata Zawadzka-Kłos, and prof. Teresa Żylis-Gara as part of a vocal course in Radajowice.(cooperation)

My repertoire includes works from baroque to modernity, but I am particularly keen to reach for Polish early romantic literature and works by Fryderyk Chopin. I specialize in the performance of piano music solo, in a duo for four hands and in vocal chamber music.

Publications

I am the author of the monograph "The brillant style in early Romantic Polish music" (ŁTN 2012), scientific articles: "Echoes of Chopin's chamber music in the work of I.F. Dobrzyńskiego" (Łódź, 2011), "The role of transcription in the didactic process on the example of chamber works intended for piano for four hands or two pianos" (in Konteksty Kształacenia Muzycznego Łódź, 2021). I made a recording of selected C songs . Debussego with prof. Beata Zawadzka-Kłos and solo piano miniatures by Mikołaj Ciurlonis (AM publishing house in Łódź 2013), as well as: recording of Domenico Scarlatti's solo sonata for the Polish Radio Station (2004), premiere of song A. Hundziaka to the words H. Poświatowska (duet with Prof. Beata Zawadzka – Kłos), recording the series "Rural Painters" A. Bauera in The Polish Radio Łódź (in a duet with prof. Urszula Kryger) and recordings of a recital of Polish music composed of works by F. Chopin and M. Szymanowska in the concert hall of the Warsaw Music Society.

My selected solo and chamber recordings are available on YouTube and Spotify.

Plates

In recent years, three of my albums have appeared: "Forgotten Polish Romantic Music for Four Hands" (DUX), "In the Circle of Chopin-Songs" (AM Łódź) and the album "Muzyka kobiet. Songs" (DUX). All of them were presented in Polish or foreign radio stations (Polskie Radio, HR2 Kultur).

Functions performed and organizational activities

In the years 2012-2020 I was the Deputy Dean of the Vocal and Acting Faculty and the Head of the Vocal and Acting Institute of the Academy of Music. G. and K. Bacewiczów in Łódź. I am also the president of the Association for the Promotion of Artistic Initiatives Operativa – the organizer of artistic events.

I was the organizer of many music festivals and the director of the International Virtual Piano and Chamber Music Competition. M. Szymanowska and K. Kurpiński (2021).

As a certified teacher, I lead a piano class in the second degree of the State Music School. K. Kurpiński in Kutno.