Accompanists of the 21st edition of the Competition

A graduate of the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine in Kyiv, where she studied under Professor Natalia Gridnieva.

She began her professional career as an accompanist at the academy’s opera studio, collaborating with the classes of renowned Ukrainian professors Maria Stefiuk, Ivan Ponomarenko, and Valeriy Buimistr.

Since 2018, she has been affiliated with the Warsaw Chamber Opera, where she serves as a vocal coach for soloists. She frequently performs with the Musicae Antiquae Collegium Varsoviense Orchestra, playing celesta and piano in productions such as ‘Die Zauberflöte’ W. A. Mozart and ‘The Medium’ G. C. Menotti, as well as fortepiano recitatives in ‘Così fan tutte’, ‘Idomeneo’, ‘Don Giovanni’ W. A. Mozart, and ‘Il giovedì grasso’ G. Donizetti. She also participates in the opera’s concert projects, including Snack Opera and Café Mozart.

Between 2015 and 2018, she worked as a vocal coach and orchestral pianist at Wrocław Opera, and since 2018, she has also been associated with the Baltic Opera in Gdańsk.

She is actively involved in opera productions, collaborating with distinguished conductors such as Michał Klauza, José Maria Florêncio, Przemysław Fiugajski, Paweł Przytocki, Marcin Nałęcz-Niesiołowski, Matteo Pagliari, Stefan Plewniak, Marcin Sompliński, Piotr Borkowski, and Piotr Sułkowski.

She has participated in prestigious vocal workshops, including the Young Singers Project in Salzburg (2010), the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera in New York (2012–2013), and the 42nd Winter Vocal Course in Duszniki-Zdrój (2025).

She collaborates with the Aleksander Zelwerowicz Theatre Academy in Warsaw, contributing to student projects under the direction of Michał Znaniecki, as well as with the Dramatyczny Theatre of Warsaw (‘Man of La Mancha’) and Studio Theatre (‘Mahagonny. Ein Songspiel / Afterparty’).

As an accompanist, she supports singers in international competitions in Poland and abroad, including the 4th International Adam Didur Opera Singing Competition at the Silesian Opera in Bytom, the Belvedere Singing Competition, and Neue Stimmen.

At the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, she teaches courses in phonetics and performance practice for vocal-acting students. She also accompanies masterclasses led by esteemed professors such as Bogdan Makal, Kaludi Kaludov, and Marek Rzepka.

Between 2022 and 2024, she served as music director of the Opera na Koszykach series, organized in Warsaw by the Julian Cochran Foundation, which featured productions of ‘La Bohème’ G. Puccini, ‘Die Zauberflöte’ and ‘Le nozze di Figaro’ W. A. Mozart.

Was born in Vienna. At the age of seven, he started to join the “Mozart Sängerknaben, Vienna”, where his first music lessons began. Piano studies with Prof. Thomas Kreuzberger, as well as studies for conducting at the “Hochschule fuer Musik” in Vienna with Prof. Karl Oesterreicher, studies for accompanating and coaching for singers with Dr. Harald Goertz. Since 1991 he has been teaching at the MUK Privatuniversity of Vienna (former conservatory), where he received a professorship in 2017, and since 2002 also at University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. He has repeatedly worked as an accompanator with famous artists as E. Gruberova, E. Garanca, G. Bumbry, M. Zampieri, M. Erdmann, I. d’Arcangelo, F. Bonisolli, G. Taddei, L. Nucci, F. Furlanetto, S. Ramey, J. Botha, G. Tichy, R. Trost, W. Fink, Miroslav & Peter Dvorsky, Viennese Boys Choir, and many others with whom he gave already concerts on 5 differents continents. He also accompanated different masterclasses and worked with famous singing-teachers as Martha Eggerth, Helena Łazarska, Jewgenij Nesterenko, Krassimira Stoyanova, Leo Nucci, Walter Berry, Hilde Zadek, as well as he gave masterclasses himself for singers and pianists all over Europe, for example at The Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznan, Metropolia University in Helsinki or University for Music in Tallinn, as well as in Teheran and Havanna. From 1994 to 2008 he was the art director of the Choral Society “Young-Vienna”. He got big successes in many countries and big concert halls with this choir, up to concerts for the Royal Family in Thailand. He has been working with different choirs, nowadays he leads the choir of the singing department at University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. Some years ago he founded a piano fourhands duo with the polish pianist Marcin Kozieł, with whom he had concerts at different places in Austria, Poland, Italy and Latvia. Since 2011 he has been the musical director of he chamber music festival “Klassik im Advent” in Austria, which takes place in a big hotel on the top of a mountain almost 2000 m high. His extensive repertoire, reaching from the classical song and oratorio via opera to operetta and musical, but also including chamber music and the Viennese art and Austrian folk music, makes him a much sought-after accompanist. Since he was the musical director of the Nestroy-Festival at Burg Liechtenstein with KSCH Elfriede Ott in 1993, he has been dealing with theater music and chansons more intensively. Concerts, CD-recordings as choir director, pianist and organist, as well as appearances on TV and radio broadcasting in several continents are rounding off his activities as pianist and conductor.

Pianist, répétiteur, vocal coach. A graduate of the Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, Faculty of Instrumental and Pedagogical, Music Education and Vocal Studies in Bialystok and the University of Silesia in Katowice. He was a participant of the Opera Academy Youns Talents Development Programme at the Teatr Wielki in Warsaw from 2016 to 2021, training under Eytan Pessen.

He has honed his skills for working with singers during masterclasses taught by such authorities as: Helmut Deutsch, Thomas Lausmann, Hedwig Fassbender, Izabella Kłosińska, Anna Marchwińska, Lech Napierała, Maciej Pikulski, Francesco Massimi, Siergiej Leiferkus, René Massis, Olga Pasiecznik, Matthias Rexroth, Tobias Truniger, Mariusz Kwiecień and Neil Shicoff. He has collaborated with such maestros as: Krzysztof Penderecki, Friedrich Haider, Patrick Fournillier, Łukasz Borowicz, José Maria Florêncio, Benjamin Bayl, Lothar Koenigs, Tadeusz Kozłowski, Marcin Sompoliński, Andrzej Knap, Yaroslav Shemet, Michał Klauza and meny others. 

He has played in concerts at venues including Oper Frankfurt, Opéra de Marseille, Teatro Ghione in Roma, Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera in Warsaw, Warsaw Chamber Opera, Silesian Opera in Bytom, Polish Radio’s Witold Lutosławski Concert studio. He performed also in Austria, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Belarus, Spain and South Korea. He performed the part of b.c. for pianoforte in the productions of ‘Idomeneo’, ‘Don Giovanni’ and ‘Così fan tutte’ by W. A. Mozart, in the Polish premiere of ‘Il giovedi grasso’ and ‘Il campanello di notte’ by G. Donizetti in WOK and ‘Così fan tutte’ in TW-ON.

As a competition pianist, he has accompanied singers at, among others: the International Moniuszko Competition in Warsaw (2019, 2022), the Concorso Lirico Internazionale Ottavio Ziino in Rome (2022), the Ada Sari International Competition of Vocal Art in Nowy Sącz (2021, 2023), the Bogdan Paprocki National Vocal Competition in Bydgoszcz (2021, 2023). Bogdan Paprocki in Bydgoszcz (2021, 2023) where he was awarded the Special Prize for an Outstanding Pianist (2021), the Franciszek Mirecki International Opera Competition in Przemyśl (2023), the A. Didur International Opera Vocal Competition in Bytom (2024).

As a pianist/répétiteur he has taken part in the preparation of nearly 40 opera, operetta and musical productions - including the world premieres of ‘Blind Track’ by K. Meyer, ‘Wòlô Bòskô’ by Ł. Godyla or ‘Tango’ by M. Dobrzyński. He has cooperated with the Warsaw Chamber Opera, the Silesian Opera in Bytom, the Baltic Opera in Gdańsk and the Grand Theatre in Poznań. He is in constant collaboration with Musicae Antiquae Collegium Varsoviense. Since 2021 he has been professionally connected with the Grand Theatre - National Opera in Warsaw. 2024 he is a lecturer at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw.